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Harvey Strains Hospitals, Shuts Down Services http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/884995 As tropical storm Harvey resumed its torrential assault on the Houston area today, some hospitals and clinics continued to shut down services and others operated with smaller staffs of providers who often struggled mightily to get to their patients. Amrou Sarraj, MD, a vascular neurologist specializing in stroke […]

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People are urging donations for Harvey relief efforts — just not to the Red Cross https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/28/people-are-urging-donations-for-harvey-relief-efforts-just-not-to-the-red-cross/?utm_term=.32a5f7eb1d7c With many ways to help the tens of thousands of people estimated to be temporarily displaced by surging floodwaters brought by Harvey, some are asking people to donate — but to be choosy about where they spend the money. As former president Barack Obama — […]

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Houston TX area has a population of 2.3 million + If one presumes that 30% of the population are chronic pain pts… abt 690,000 chronic pain pts in the Houston area If one presumes that each get their pain meds in 30 days supplies Presuming that most pharmacies will hold chronic pain pts to a […]

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Former Cuyahoga County Jail inmate sues, says staff ignored severe withdrawal symptoms http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/08/former_cuyahoga_county_jail_in_1.html CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man is suing Cuyahoga County, county jail staff and employees of The MetroHealth System for what he says was negligent care provided to him while he was in jail and suffering obviously painful symptoms of drug and […]

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Study: Opioid Users Don’t See Overdose as Wakeup Call Brush with death had little effect on subsequent use https://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/by-the-numbers/67454 Turns out, even a close call with an overdose isn’t enough to deter opioid users. As described in a JAMA research letter, Julie M. Donohue, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues looked at five […]

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FDA Designates MDMA As ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ For Post-Traumatic Stress https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2017/08/28/fda-designates-mdma-as-breakthrough-therapy-for-post-traumatic-stress/#5f9d34e67460 Following years of lobbying and laboratory research on the medical uses of methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided to move forward with the drug. Last week, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced that the FDA has granted Breakthrough […]

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Critical CVS App Flaw Shared Private User Data on 40+ Servers www.idropnews.com/news/critical-cvs-app-flaw-shared-user-data-on-40-web-servers/48075/ Researchers affiliated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, have discovered a flaw in U.S. pharmacy-giant CVS’ iOS app, which has apparently been causing the mobile application to “inadvertently share users’ location data with more than 40 web servers.” That’s according […]

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