A New Hampshire hospital says four emergency department workers and two police officers have been treated after they were exposed to an unidentified white powder while attending to a patient.
The largest head-to-head study to date between two leading drugs to treat opioid addiction has found them roughly equivalent — an outcome that could dramatically change prescribing habits and boost the fortunes of the newer drug, Vivitrol.
According to the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence at Johns Hopkins, up to 12 million Americans are misdiagnosed every year. Among these patients, around 4 million suffer from some type of injury and up to 80,000 die as a result of misdiagnosis.