American pharmaceutical giant Gilead has paid at least $178 million to doctors and $81 million to hospitals in the US to promote and prescribe the company’s drugs despite cases of deaths and severe side effects. The drug-maker funded as many as 21,833 physicians in 2019 alone, according to data about Gilead payments from 2013 to 2019. Arms […]
On June 8, 2017, the FDA requested that the drug-maker Endo Pharmaceuticals stop selling Opana ER – the extended-release version of Opana – because of “public health consequences of abuse.” It is the first time the agency has made efforts to pull an opioid from the market due to its highly addictive nature. [1]
According to the FBI, Opana ER is becoming a popular drug to crush, dissolve, and inject. An outbreak of HIV, Hepatitis C, and a serious blood disorder have been fueled by drug users sharing needles.
Nearly 300 people who underwent colonoscopies at a Massachusetts hospital were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis due to improper sterilization procedures involving instruments used for the medical test.
Baystate Noble Hospital in Westland, Ma. recently announced that 293 patients who underwent colonoscopies at the facility between June 11, 2012 and April 17, 2013 may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.
The Utah Department of Health is urging people who were treated at McKay-Dee Hospital and Davis Hospital between June 17, 2013 and November 25, 2014 to get tested for hepatitis C after it came to light that 7,200 people may have been exposed to the disease at the facilities
Like it or not, alcohol is a poison. Even the doctor or nurse rubs alcohol on the body prior to an injection in order to kill any pathogenic micro-organisms which might be lingering on the skin. Its killing capacity is that effective and dependable. Why then do not people understand that the over-consumption of alcohol can have highly destructive effects on their organs and tissues?
Just one sip of beer, wine, or whisky hangs out in your body for about 2 hours. Once it quickly enters your bloodstream, it touches down on nearly every organ and system in your body. [1]
