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Meridian Goes Upscale With Addiction Treatment Center

...  There's activity elsewhere, too. "Of the nearly 22.7 million people who needed treatment for substance … Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette Aging Baby Boomers Bring Drug Habits Into Middle Age The sharp increase in overdose deaths among older adults in particular is “very concerning,” said Wilson Compton, deputy director for the federal government's National Institute on Drug Abuse. The rate of death by accidental drug overdose for people … Read more on Wall Street Journal Read ...

Incest, Drug Addiction & Death: 9 Tortured Kids of Troubled, Tragic Celebrities

...  man Michael Hutchence), Peaches died 14 years after her mother's accidental drug overdose. In a 2012 interview with U.K. Elle magazine … Read more on RadarOnline Alert on MD Abuse Of Jackson Drug Abuse of the sedative suspected in Michael Jackson's death is a growing problem among medical professionals, increasing pressure on the government to restrict it as a controlled substance. Three days before the pop icon's death on June 25, the American … Read more on Wall Street Journal Read ...

Weight-Loss Drugs Seek Acceptance From Patients and Physicians

...  Drugs Seek Acceptance From Patients and Physicians “Healthcare practitioners are still a little wary of weight-loss medications because of this sort of checkered past,” says Thomas Wadden, director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania. Another barrier to … Read more on Wall Street Journal Social media and eating disorders “At Eating Recovery Center, patients will talk a lot about, initially, using social media as sort of an effort to fuel their eating disorder,” she said. Solomon says it's really easy to find some disturbing information online if you're seeking it out … Read more on WDTN Read ...

Race Is on to Detect Ebola More Quickly

...  Is On to Detect Ebola More Quickly Mr. Ririe, chief executive of Utah-based BioFire Defense, was personally delivering his company's device to Bellevue Hospital Center in New York, which is treating Craig Spencer, the doctor who became infected while working in Africa. While flying over … Read more on Wall Street Journal Ebola Drug Safety Tests Raise Ethical Issues as NY Times Commends Cuba Oct. 20 (GIN) – Can you test a promising new Ebola drug by giving it to one sample infected group and giving a deactivated placebo to another? That's the issue dividing medical experts at a World Health Organization meeting this week in Geneva. Read more on Black Voice News Read ...

John Grisham's Latest Thriller, Gray Mountain

...  Grisham's Latest Thriller, Gray Mountain At the center of this novel is one of Grisham's rare female protagonists, Samantha Kofer, a Wall Street lawyer given a leave of absence after the Great Recession of 2008 when layoffs from the mortgage mess and bank bailouts caused a good deal of soul … Read more on Huffington Post This Is What A Panic Attack Physically Feels Like "When someone suffers from one of these disorders, it's completely debilitating," Todd Farchione, a clinical psychologist at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, previously told HuffPost Healthy Living. ...

Fears Rise of Medication Misuse by the Elderly

...  Rise of Medication Misuse by the Elderly The misuse of medications "is a rising problem in seniors as the baby-boom generation ages," says David Oslin, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Exactly how much of a problem is unclear, because … Read more on Wall Street Journal ADMINISTRATIVE LAW | MOTOR VEHICLES The panel reverses, finding that Jane's admission she would test positive for drugs, the damage found in Jane's home, and Carol's father's belief that Jane was under the influence did not demonstrate that Jane's conduct constituted abuse or neglect … Read more on New Jersey Law Journal Read ...

HealthPartners Pitches $79M Expansion

HealthPartners pitches M expansion The nonprofit health care provider and insurer this month announced plans for a four-story medical office building at 295 Phalen Boulevard, next to its rehab facility and near its two specialty centers on the boulevard. The 128,000-square foot building … Read more on TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Local hospitals' profits rise “The most significant investment is our ongoing commitment to cardiovascular services, where we have added cardiac rehab and earned recognition from the Society of Chest Pain Centers as an Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI (percutaneous coronary … Read more on The Register-Guard Read more... ...