The era of over-the-counter cold medications is coming to an end. Major retail chain CVS announced this month that it would remove certain cold and cough products containing oral phenylephrine from its shelves. The Food and Drug Administration may soon push for the ingredient to be removed en masse from these over-the-counter products, following a …
Marin County plans to expand a program to administer drugs to inmates against their will. Last fall, the Oversight Board authorized court-ordered medications to be administered to inmates deemed unfit to stand trial without their consent, if necessary. Before this authorization, detainees had to stay in prison for months until a bed was available in …
Patients at a Yale University fertility clinic experienced excruciating pain after undergoing invasive fertility procedures after a nurse stole hundreds of vials of fentanyl and replaced the patient’s medications with saline solution , according to a lawsuit. Dozens, if not hundreds, of patients underwent fertility surgeries with little or no pain medication, according to a …