Unused medicine a toxic dilemma
HeraldNet
The Granite Falls woman didn't know how to properly dispose of her stepfather's old unmarked medicines after he died. So she stored them in a wooden cabinet next to the fireplace. "We put them away where people couldn't find them," she said.
Putting unused drugs in the right placeThe Olympian
Couple still pushing for bill to have drug stores take back medsKING5.com

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Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching
New York Times
Universities in Australia are defending their teaching of alternative medicine after a group of the country's top scientists and doctors urged them to abandon this increasingly popular subject. Friends of Science in Medicine — a recently formed group ...



Woman: Cold medicine bought in Ala. for scuba trip got her convicted on meth ...
The Republic
A sting was going on, in which pharmacists told police when anyone from Mississippi bought medicine containing pseudoephedrine. Her son bought his at a drugstore; Avera said she bought hers at a Walmart because she had a gift card.
Woman says innocent trip to Ala. spirals into meth chargeJackson Clarion Ledger

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Brazil Family Medicine constructing new facility
Brazil Times
By TIFFANY FRY, Times Staff Reporter Patients with Brazil Family Medicine may be driving to a new location to see their doctor next year. Brazil Family Medicine, Dr. David Breitweiser's family practice, plans to construct a new medical facility.



Doctor Prescribes Preventive Medicine for Shale Gas
Daily Green (blog)
Such was the case February 1 when Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a physician, toxicologist, member of the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine, and former Reagan administration appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency, testified to the ...

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Meth ingredient tracking not helping police
Post-Tribune
AP February 5, 2012 6:58PM EVANSVILLE — A new computerized tracking system that has stopped sales of thousands of boxes of cold medicines used to make methamphetamine has not been much help to investigators so far, the commander of the Indiana State ...
Cold medicine targeted in meth crackdownGreenville News
Push for state-wide crackdown on meth stallsEvansville Courier & Press

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Uni defends complementary medicine
Northern Star
SOUTHERN Cross University has rejected claims by the self-named group Friends of Science in Medicine that complementary medicine should not be taught in Australian universities. Southern Cross University offers majors in naturopathy and complementary ...



Editorial: Strong medicine
Greensboro News & Record
That seems to be the diagnosis of the 2012 State of the City Report produced for the Greensboro Partnership by Keith G. Debbage, a professor of urban geography at UNCG. Some critical symptoms, based on 2010 data, were alarming — notably median ...

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Weeklies Reader: Sanders County's Bull River Family Medicine Clinic to close
The Missoulian
In its lead story this week, the Sanders County Ledger said Clark Fork Valley Hospital announced the closure of the Bull River Family Medicine Clinic with “deep regret.” “We have been averaging just over 100 patients per month,” Deb Green, ...

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ADHD medicine shortage frustrating patients, parents
Philadelphia Inquirer
In recent months, Luberda has made scores of calls to find pharmacies with the medicine in stock. Once she drove more than 40 miles to get prescriptions filled. She has lost income and time from work and borrowed pills from one child to tide over the ...


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