Self-harm on rise for young drug users

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Addiction experts have seen an increase in self-harm rates and mental health problems among adolescents seeking help for multi-drug addiction in Cork. They have also found an increase in the level and intensity of bullying, cyber bullying and a rise in …
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Hormone Therapy? It's as Safe As Cigarettes

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

It was not exactly the fountain of youth it was billed as by hormone drug maker Wyeth (now Pfizer) in high-budget menopause awareness TV ads starring model Lauren Hutton. In fact, HRT was such a scourge against women, in the first … The early …
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First gene therapy drug given European license

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

… Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukaemia in 2002. In China, Shenzhen SiBiono GeneTech won approval for a gene therapy drug for head and neck cancer in 2003 but no products have …
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Armstrong got special treatment: drug chief

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Gripper, who ran the Union Cycliste Internationale anti-doping arm from 2006 to early 2010 before returning to Australia, told The Age the UCI should have handled things better. She said the report by the US Anti-Doping Agency showed ''not so much that …
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