UN report calls for governments to intensify fight against drug abuse

Pre-exposure prophylaxis to intensify the fight against HIV.

www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 14 June 2014 443 recommendations. Because this was a phase 2 trial that was not powered for comparison of regimens, a phase 3 trial is needed to compare the two doses of raltegravir in patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis. In the interim, despite fi ndings from the pharmacokinetic study in healthy volunteers showing a reduction in raltegravir trough con...

Annual Report of Recorded Phone Calls to Iran's Drug and Poison Information Centers (2014-2015)

Background: The annual statistics of Drug and Poison Information Centers (DPICs) have critical role in public health planning. The objective of this study was to provide annual epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to Iran’s DPICs during 2014-2015. Methods: This was a descriptive retrospective study by reviewing reported phone calls of Iranian DPICs to central...

WMA calls for urgent support to fight Ebola.

The fight against fraud and abuse: analyzing constituent support.

Most efforts to combat fraud and abuse have relied on a punitive-deterrent approach, assuming that higher penalties and stricter enforcement will both punish present offenders and deter potential ones. Social science perspectives, particularly that of systems theory, suggest that a more effective approach is prevention grounded in an understanding of the constituencies involved. Constituency an...

Drug abuse-related emergency calls: a metropolis-wide study.

INTRODUCTION Drug abuse is an important sociomedical problem in large metropolitan areas. Drug addicts represent a group with particularities, since they hesitate to seek medical care and often refuse hospitalization. Therefore, there is a scarcity of data on drug abuse-related calls. The burden imposed by such calls on emergency health services has not been evaluated in detail. OBJECTIVES Th...