Drop off unused medications this weekend

The drug drop will be held in the Fred Meyer parking lot on Airport way from 10-2 on Saturday “Drop off unused medications this weekend” is categorized as “local”. This video was licensed from Grab Networks. For additional video content, click the “video” tab at the top of this page. If you are a new [...]

May Is Better Hearing and Speech Month

Since 1927, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has celebrated Better Hearing and Speech Month each May to raise public awareness of speech and language disorders that affect 14 million Americans. Henry County Medical Center is proud to recognize this month and our Speech Language Pathologists, Suzanne Jackson and Christy Dukes. This annual event provides opportunities to [...]

State health dept. probing alleged fake medications

The Texas Department of State Health Services is urging consumers to rid their cabinets of several over-the-counter drugs that it says are falsely being marketed as antibiotics View full post on All Stories

Roseburg and Winston prescription drug take-backs planned

Two Douglas County organizations will collect unneeded medications in Roseburg and Winston Saturday in an effort to prevent prescription drug abuse, especially among youth. Umpqua Partners for a drug-free future and the Winston Area Copyright 2011 The News-Review. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The News-Review Roseburg and [...]

Prescription drug abuse tops all other drugs

The Drug Enforcement Administration says the most commonly abused drugs in America today come from the medicine cabinet. Over the last decade the number of people who’ve overdosed on prescription pain meds like Oxycotin has doubled. Matt Barden, Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA in Colorado Springs says there is no easy way to [...]

Few seniors support GOP plan to restructure Medicare

United States (KaiserHealth) – Senior citizens, whose fierce opposition to the 2010 health overhaul law helped propel Republicans’ midterm election gains, have little appetite for the House GOP’s plans to turn Medicare into a voucher-type program that sends beneficiaries to private plans but limits the amount of federal funding, according to a poll released today. [...]

Many Kids With Epilepsy Don’t Take Their Medicine

Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 17:25 | Category : online pharmacy tech
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More than half of children with newly diagnosed epilepsy do not take their seizure medications as prescribed, a study shows. View full post on All Stories

Man with schizophrenia sentenced for 2007 murder

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man with a history of mental illness who pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing a mental health worker has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. View full post on All Stories

Prescription drug disposal day planned

The Drug Enforcement Administration will coordinate a one-day Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative this week. This is a statewide event and will provide an opportunity for the public to surrender pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications to law enforcement for destruction. The event will operate from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on April 30. The [...]

Two-year-old Oregon girl awaits hemispherectomy

CLATSKANIE, Ore. — Angie Grover, who will be three on May 6, does not really know that she is sick. That each days starts with her foster mother giving her four different seizure medications followed by “breakfast” – a special formula – fed to her through a tube in her abdomen – is just how [...]

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