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In pediatric conditions involving moderate to severe pain it’s not uncommon for physicians to prescribe oxycodone or hydrocodone off label to their patients. But recent moves by Purdue Pharma (the manufacturer of popular opioid OxyContin) to seek FDA approval to label the painkiller for use by children as young as 6 is raising more than a few eyebrows. Mostly because a lot of people think this is just a crass cash grab aimed and protecting their patent on the drug which is set to expire next year.
A team of Glaswegian scientists are hoping to develop a machine that serves as an ‘on-demand’ drug store. The machine would concoct the specific drug you’re prescribed on the spot and churn it out for you like a vending machine. Now you don’t have to be rich and famous to have your own personal pharmacy at home!
Get These Motherfucking Aches of this Motherfucking Plane.
The majority of flu transmission occurs five to seven days after a person becomes sick, meaning that about 87% of people who spread the flu know that they have it. Over 200,000 people are hospitalized every year due to flu complications, and many patients (mostly young children, pregnant women, and the elderly) pass away. Basically: if you know you have the flu and decide to board a plane, you may be committing manslaughter. Seriously.
Airplanes, which are cramped and poorly ventilated, exacerbate the spread of flu by preventing disease particles from dissipating. However, there are four crucial things you can do to minimize the impact of flu on your holiday travels (besides simply washing your hands).
Could a form of bacteria actually make you feel better if you ate it? For the first time scientists are studying what they call the gut-brain axis and finding a link between the bacteria in your stomach and the way we feel.
In a country ruled by the Man, there are very few drugs that have remained legal. You see, in the Man’s world anything that brings pleasure—or makes your lifer easier or more tolerable—must be regarded with the utmost skepticism. From marijuana to Spanish fly, the Man has reached his buzz-killing hand across America since forever, plucking out any substance that He fears you may be enjoying too much.
Believe it or not, the Man hasn’t made everything you love illegal. But don’t you worry, the Man is tireless in his efforts to make your life as mundane as possible and eventually nothing you enjoy will remain untouched by his party-pooping fingers. Until then, I’m going to try and give you a heads up. Here is a list of the top 10 “Drugs” that will soon be illegal.
We had mentioned it before but now just recently The University of California San Francisco Medical Center debuted the world’s largest robotic pharmacy. Costing upwards of $15 million the ground breaking technology was created in hopes of raising productivity while reducing human error down to zero as it administers not only regular prescriptions but handles enhanced chemotherapy dosing as well. So far this space-age drug bot is batting 1.000 with not a single flub during it’s initial phase-in of 350,000 doses of medication at the hospital. iMedicalApps has more on the story including a video press release from the university.
Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but some awfully strange substances have been used for pharmaceutical purposes in the past — and some might argue, continue to be used today. Here are some vintage advertisements touting items that we might balk at taking today.
Just because they’re legal doesn’t mean that pharmaceutical drugs are any less dangerous than illicit drugs. They are potentially deadly when taken in large doses or when combined with alcohol or other drugs. Sometimes it takes high-profile cases to remind us of the dangers. Here are 18 such cases.
It seems that you can’t go a day anymore without news of another professional athlete getting busted for performance-enhancing drugs. (Ironically, studies have shown that many of them don’t necessarily improve performance and might actually detract from overall athletic function in the long run.) Most of these drugs actually serve legitimate functions outside of athletics and thus aren’t illegal, but they’re outlawed by various athletic organizations and are available to the public only by prescription — something most athletes don’t have. There are a lot of rumors of illegal usage by various athletes, but for the purposes of this list, we’re sticking to those who’ve either admitted using or have tested positive for using performance enhancing drugs.
