| TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- Come December, medical professionals will have a new tool to determine whether a patient is abusing prescription drugs.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Health providers should routinely ask women of child-bearing age about their alcohol consumption as a first step in trying to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in children, says the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Associated Press) -- In a story Aug. 10 about an apparent increase in attacks on nurses and other emergency room workers, The Associated Press erroneously identified the University of Cincinnati professor who is helping the federal government study the problem. Her correct name is Donna Gates, not Donna Graves.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleveland hospital.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Prescription drugs have killed 1,200 people in Harris County since 2006 -- casualties in a deadly American drug war in which dealers are often doctors and pharmaceutical companies rather than narcotics cartels.
VIENNA (AP) -- Experts and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts.
VIENNA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia need to reach out to street children and mothers infected with the AIDS virus if the region's epidemic -- the fastest growing in the world -- is to be reversed, a United Nations report said Monday.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Dr. Mary Newport sees the symptoms more and more in the babies she treats: oddly stiff limbs, severe tremors, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, crying that never stops.
PRAGUE (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- For Pepino, a 44-year-old Czech drug addict, needle exchanges are a routine affair. He started doing it in 1986, three years before the Velvet Revolution ended Communist rule and opened his country to visitors from around the world.
(The New York Times News Service) -- A national report revealed Thursday that more people than ever need treatment for addiction to pain pills. Admissions for therapy more than quadrupled in the last decade across the U.S., a trend mirrored in Florida.
(The New York Times News Service) -- The prescription painkiller oxycodone killed more Floridians than ever last year, and nowhere was that more evident than Pinellas and Pasco counties.
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt is implementing a new tax on tobacco products, raising cigarette prices by as much as 40 percent in this heavy smoking nation.
VIENNA (AP) -- Policies that criminalize drug users fuel the spread of AIDS and should be reformed, experts preparing for an international conference said Monday.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by the US government seeking billions of dollars in payments from the tobacco industry under anti-racketeering laws.
(USA TODAY) -- For humans, the psychological effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be as devastating as the physical, say experts who will speak at an Institute of Medicine workshop today in New Orleans.
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, abuse of painkillers and other medication is sending as many people to the emergency room as the use of illegal drugs.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new report shows one in five high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn't get from a doctor.
LONDON (AP) -- Some heroin addicts who got the drug under medical supervision had a better chance of kicking the habit than those who got methadone, a new study says.
GENEVA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Young girls in many countries are now as likely as boys to pick up smoking, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday.
(Associated Press) -- With half of all men in some developing countries already hooked on cigarettes, the tobacco industry is now courting lucrative new customers -- young women, a report said Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- If an alcohol-monitoring bracelet can keep celebrities like Lindsay Lohan from drinking, some parents might wonder, Can I get one for my teen?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Could a once-a-month alcoholism shot keep some of the highest-risk heroin addicts from relapse? A drug that wakes up narcoleptics treat cocaine addiction? An old antidepressant fight methamphetamine?
(The New York Times News Service) -- With prescription drug abuse and deaths making headlines all over the state, the public outcry for action is louder than ever.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Ardi Rizal, 2, throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette. His father gave him his first when he was just 18 months old.
GENEVA (AP) -- Countries around the world are pledging to get tough with companies that market beer and liquor on social media networks such as Facebook, warning that such promotions threaten to entice a new generation into harmful drinking patterns.
DAMASCUS, Syria (USA Today) -- In the shadow of the storied Umayyad Mosque, at the heart of Damascus' old city, one of the last classical Arabic storytellers takes to his throne in the Al-Nawfara Coffee Shop. Rashid Hallak, better known as Abu Shadi -- it means "father of Shadi," a common affectionate reference to a man's eldest son -- appears here almost every night.
CRYSTAL BEACH (The New York Times News Service) -- For almost four years, Lynn Locascio tried to convince herself that her son didn't have a drug problem.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Health experts are holding up a perhaps unlikely country as a model for fighting AIDS in drug users: Iran.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Four common bad habits combined -- smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet -- can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.
(USA TODAY) -- Pediatricians need to work hard to discourage children and teens from drinking alcohol because it damages their developing brains, increases their risk of addiction and can cause accidents that lead to early death, a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
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