The soldier didn’t want to be there. “I had a fight with my girlfriend,” he told Dr. Karen Seal at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. “She thinks I’m different since I got back from Iraq. She says I scream in my sleep.” Normally, Seal, one of the country’s… Iraq - Iraq War - United States - Warfare and Conflict - Veterans Health Administration

Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain.

NILES — How did a Niles teenager’s earache turn into a potential $17 million headache for Berrien County?

A drug strategy for Chatham- Kent is a step closer to reality. A board of directors for a newly designed C-K Drug Awareness Council was elected Friday during its annual general meeting in Chatham. Chatham Coun.[…]

MANITOWOC A first-degree reckless homicide charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement in a case against a Manitowoc woman accused of selling a fentanyl patch that killed a 46-year-old Manitowoc man, according to court records.

5 million errors a year tied to wrong medications; some cause injury, death

A drug strategy for Chatham-Kent is a step closer to reality. A board of directors for a newly designed C-K Drug Awareness Council was elected Friday during its annual general meeting in Chatham. Chatham Coun.[…]

Drug name mix-ups kill or maim thousands each year in the U.S. About 1,500 drugs have names that sound so similar that they’re confused with other medicines, says a 2008 report by U.S. Pharmacopeia.

Some 1,500 drugs have names so similar they’re often confused with one or more other medications, contributing to an estimated 5 million wrong-drug errors that occur each year. Health - Drug - Pharmacy - Drugs and Medications - Illegal

CardioGenics Holdings Inc., developer of the ultra-sensitive QL Care Point-Of-Care analyzer and products for the immunoassay segment of the In-Vitro Diagnostics market, is spotlighted in the May issue of Medical Tourism Magazine in an article written by CardioGenics founder and CEO Yahia Gawad, MD.