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AMA Bucks NRA: Backs Waiting Periods, Background Checks
Fentanyl: widely used, deadly when abused
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid narcotic about 100 times as potent as morphine, continues to be in the news, as deaths from fentanyl overdose continue to rise and even more potent nonpharmaceutical forms become available on the street. It was the drug in Prince’s body and the cause of his death by overdose. The Centers for Disease Control has issued a health advisory to warn of its dangers, as deaths from synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl, rose to 5,500 in 2014.
AMA to wage war on U.S.’s newest ‘public health crisis’: Gun violence
“Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries,” Stack said. “An epidemiological analysis of gun violence is vital so physicians and other health providers, law enforcement, and society at large may be able to prevent injury, death and other harms to society resulting from firearms.”
American Medical Association Calls Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/ama-calls-gun-violence-a-public-health-crisis
The organization is making lobbying for gun control a top priority.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2016/2016-06-14-gun-violence-lobby-congress.page
Most hospitals fall short in following best practices for antibiotics use, study finds
Of the hospitals studied, only 39 percent had an action plan in place.
The End of Antibiotics? Drug-Resistant Superbug Reaches the US
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean “the end of the road” for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery “heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.”
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
A Tender Steak Could Be A Little Dangerous
HOW FACTORY FARMS PLAY CHICKEN WITH ANTIBIOTICS
HENRY KOTULA 