MORE than 200 children were taken to two Cumbrian hospitals last year to have emergency treatment for drink or drugs.
Nearly half of the 240 children admitted to A&E departments in Carlisle and Whitehaven last year for drink and drugs had been boozing.
The youngest was a 10-year-old from Carlisle who went to the Cumberland Infirmary with a suspected alcohol overdose. A 13-year-old f...
A FORMER professional bodybuilder has been fined $5000 for illegally importing pharmaceutical drugs including Valium into Australia.
French national Francis Benafatto, 47, today pleaded guilty in a Brisbane Magistrates Court to importing prohibited imports and making a false declaration to customs after he was caught with an array of medications on March 4, 2006.
Customs officials e...
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A Powel woman has been charged with TennCare fraud for the second time.
According to the State Office of the Inspector General, Kimberly Webb, 33, of Powell was indicted in Hamblen County on three counts of prescription drug fraud for acquiring controlled substanc...
Police charge 11-year-old girl with bomb threat Investigators with the Knoxville Police Department arrested a Bearden Middle School student Tuesday for filing a false report.
The 11-year-old, sixth-grade girl is accused of calling in a bomb threat to Bearden Middle School on Feb. 24, according to KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
On the morning of the bomb threat the school was evacuate...
The Crown claim Angela Baillie made £52,556 from drug dealing and have moved to strip her of her assets.
Baillie, 32, of Newton Mearns, is contesting the confiscation demand at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Judge Lord Emslie allowed both sides until the end of April to examine the figures for her income, assets and spending over the last six years.
Prosecutors claim Baillie can...
Former pharmacist indicted for trading drugs for sex
A former state Department of Correctional Services pharmacist was indicted by a St. Lawrence County grand jury for trading drugs for sex.
Marc J. Mahay, 36, of 23 Little Hammond Road, Hammond, was indicted on two counts of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled s...
"Ginkgo biloba reduces aggressive cancer risk in animal experiments", news-medical.net, February 27, 2006,
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they now have a clearer picture of how an extract from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree reduces the risk of aggressive cancer in animal experiments.
In the January-February issue of the journal Anticancer Research, the...
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WASHINGTON,Feb. 28, 2006-Public Citizen today petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately begin to phase out the widely prescribed pain reliever propoxyphene (Darvon, Darvocet and generic versions) from the market because the drug has been associated with more than 2,000 accidental deaths, is physically addictive and is no more effective than safer alternatives.
login or register to post comments | read moreA South Toledo man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly was found with medical equipment and supplies worth $2,500 that were stolen from a MedCorp station at 857 Warehouse Rd. earlier in the morning.
Billy Watts, 28, of 318 Mayberry St., was being held in the Lucas County jail pending an arraignment in Toledo Municipal Court.
He is charged with burglary, receiving stolen proper...