Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
Tags: prescriptions, Health&Medicine, care visits
Slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. anesthesiology residents who began their training between 1975 and 2009 had a substance abuse disorder during their residency, a new study reveals. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 45,000 ...
Abuse of narcotic painkillers and other prescription drugs is a growing problem in the United States, and a leading doctors' group is urging members to exercise tighter control on the medications. The American College of Physicians (ACP) ...
End Discrimination Now issued a highly critical statement regarding the new prescription drugs laws approved this week by the NYS Senate. Characterizing the “new” law as “alarmist”, “excessive” and ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Respiratory Motion's ExSpiron respiratory monitoring system, designed for monitoring breathing abnormalities often associated with potentially lethal respiratory depression. ...
Tags: FDA, respiratory monitoring system, clinical technology