Betty Ford Center: Addiction the Disease – Part 8
Betty Ford Center: Addiction the Disease – Part 8 – Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Betty Ford Center Physician Director, discusses the impact of stress on alcoholism and addiction.
Expert in addiction nominated for top NHS leadership award
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He is head of substance misuse at NHS Derby City and Derby City Council and was put forward after re-vamping the city's drug treatment services in 2006 and its alcohol services in 2010. Latest figures show the number of people being admitted to city …
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Get smart about antibiotics
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Antibiotic resistance is leading to higher treatment costs, longer hospital stays, and unnecessary deaths. The CDC estimates that nearly 100,000 people die from infections they pick up in the hospital every year. The vast majority are caused by …
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Novartis drug SigniforR recommended by FDA advisory committee for approval …
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Basel, November 7, 2012 – The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) has voted unanimously in support of the use of Signifor R (pasireotide) for the treatment of patients with Cushing's …
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'Addiction Was Part of Her Life'
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In 1974, when Donto James was 6, he went to visit his mother, R&B icon Etta James, in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital after she'd been sentenced to drug treatment instead of prison on a heroin charge. James hadn't seen his 36-year-old mother for …
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