Portland Business Journal, Nov. 21, 2014 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Thursday approved a “smart” opioid prescription painkiller that is supposed to be more difficult to abuse. Hysingla ER is an extended-release hydrocodone tablet that’s difficult to crush, break or dissolve, and therefore, harder to snort or inject. The approval comes at a […]
MedPage Today, April 3, 2014 The FDA has okayed an auto-injector formulation of naloxone (Evzio), intended to expand the use of an agent that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. In a call with stakeholders Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the auto-injector a “more user-friendly version” of naloxone, which is only […]
By Christopher David Grey, The Lund Report, May 20, 2013 Rep. Jim Weidner of McMinnville is typically the most conservative Republican on the House Health Committee, but after an emotional debate on Friday he was moved to become the lone GOP representative to join with the Democrats to send to the floor Senate Bill 281 […]
By Bethany Halford, Chemical & Engineering News, March 25, 2013 When something goes wrong with the inner workings of the body, we call it a disease. When things go awry in the mind’s fine machinery, we call it madness. Risdon Slate knows all about that. It has been more than 25 years since the events […]
By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian, Friday, March 02, 2012 Psychiatrist Curt Sturos tends to troubled kids in southern Oregon and considers himself part of a growing awareness that mental health drugs may be overused. So it was a surprise to find himself exhibit A in a recent letter from a powerful U.S. Senator, demanding to […]
Rodrique Ngowi, The Associated Press, February 19, 2012 U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and […]
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