Drugs & Society

The United States is removing all Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras, and scaling back in Guatemala and El Salvador, reports The Tico Times (Dec. 23, 2011). The Peace Corps, the government-run volunteer body,...

HEADNOTE Big Bang Design A Detroit program is designing new ways to keep kids from lighting up. Can mint-green baseball caps, dodgeballs stenciled with the number "i200," and a whist tournament dissuade kids...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * Edi Alvarado-Perez, 45, 618 Alarid St., was arrested and charged with battery and larceny after he reportedly struck a man in the...

Can e-cigarettes be the future of tobacco in the GCC? Kipp investigates... Business interests blocking a tobacco ban-this was the theme behind the excellent Jason Reitman movie 'Thank you for Smoking' and also...

Keppra was previously approved in the US as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children four years of age and older with epilepsy. The approval was based on data from...

Throughout most of the 1900s, building was welcomed on Long Island. With thousands moving east from the city, communities grew exponentially and construction boomed. Ambitious developers turned vacant fields into neighborhoods and small...

The corruption-ridden Honduran police force needs urgent purging, according to academics and human rights activists. Involvement of police, from chiefs all the way down to bottom-ranking officers, in criminal activities--homicide, drug-trafficking, car theft,...

Twenty-two years after the US invasion of Panama in 1989 removed him from power (NotiCen, Dec. 22, 1989), former dictator Manuel Noriega (1983-1989) arrived in his home country on Dec. 11. Since 2010,...

Robert Bonerba, 62, the disgraced former head of Smithtown's building department, was arrested by state narcotics investigators for buying $500 worth of heroin in a K-Mart parking lot on Tuesday afternoon, according to...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment identified 10 "winnable battles" that are key environmental and health issues. The CDPHE chose the issues because they are ones where progress can be made...

Dir: James Ponsoldt. US. 2012. 85mins Alcoholism is hardly a new subject for drama - it's been famously tackled in films like Days Of Wine and Roses and Leaving Las Vegas - but...

U.S. needs real leaders Margaret Thatcher could indeed give us all lessons on leadership today. She was loyal to her party and would never throw a member of her cabinet under a bus...

The testimony of the medical examiners who authored autopsy reports was required for the documents to be admitted as evidence in the criminal trial of a doctor who allegedly over-prescribed pain killers, the...

The attaching of a GPS device to a vehicle, and the use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled....

- Clinical application of Archimedes' physician and patient decision support tool grows - SAN FRANCISCO & TULSA, Okla. -- Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling company, and MyHealth Access Network, a Beacon Community in...

WYOMISSING, Pa. -- Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN: Nasdaq) announced today that its Chief Financial Officer, William J. Clifford, will participate in an audio webcast in conjunction with the Company's participation at the...

Professors David Kerr and Nick La Thangue offer oncology consulting and biomarker R&D activities spun out from the University of Oxford OXFORD, U.K. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Continuing its commitment to...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ea4043/epidemiology_non) has announced the addition of the "Epidemiology: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - Despite global efforts to stop smoking, incidence rates will remain unchanged" report to their offering....

DULUTH, Ga. -- PRIUM released a new white paper, "Legacy Cleanup, Texas Style" on the Texas Closed Formulary (TCF), which requires preauthorization of any drug that has an Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) status...