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2 giorni fa · A “wonder drug” that turned out to be a deadly poison should never have been used on NHS patients, a report into the infected blood scandal has found.
1 giorno fa · Last November, several patients in Austria and the UK were hospitalized after using allegedly fake versions of Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic. 1 Hypoglycemia and seizure were reported as serious side effects of using the falsified drugs. 2,3 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit weight-loss drugs and warns consumers not to use ...
1 giorno fa · Estimates of annual proceeds from the global illicit drugs trade are between US$426 and US$652 billion, and drug crime makes up a growing share of economies in Latin Americ a and West Africa. Between 2015 and 2018, Mexican drug cartels generated inward illicit financial flows of an estimated $12.1 billion similar in value to the country’s ...
1 giorno fa · According to the World Health Organization, one in every 10 patients is harmed in health care. There are several ways a patient’s health and well-being may be put in danger. These include patient misidentification, diagnostic errors, unsafe injection practices, and even surgical errors. However, one of the most common sources of patient harm is drug […]
2 giorni fa · Demand soon outstripped domestic sources of supply, so health officials began importing it from the U.S. where a high proportion of donations came from prisoners and drug users.
3 giorni fa · Demand soon outstripped domestic sources of supply, so health officials began importing Factor VIII from the U.S., where a high proportion of plasma donations came from prisoners and drug users ...
26 apr 2024 · By Jim Reed. Health reporter. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. A public inquiry has...
