A public awareness campaign emphasizing the perils of fentanyl and actions that Riverside County residents can take to prevent their loved ones from being a fentanyl poisoning victim was unveiled Thursday.
Now, instead of getting a prescription and having a custom fitting with a hearing health professional, adults can buy hearing aids directly from a store or online. Some doctors estimate that 90% of the population with hearing loss could benefit from these over-the-counter devices.
Arraignment was delayed again Thursday for a man who claims voices in his head prompted him to fatally shoot two people inside a Corona movie theater. Joseph Jimenez, 20, is accused of shooting Corona residents Anthony Barajas, 19, and Rylee Goodrich, 18, on July 26 inside the Regal Edwards Theater at Corona Crossings. Barajas was […]
It’s a wonder her arm didn’t fall off. From December 2002 to January 2010, more than 335,130 prescriptions for painkillers were issued under the name of Dr. Katherine Hoover at the West Virginia clinic where she worked — a rate of about 130 per day, assuming she worked seven days a week. Another doctor who worked with […]
An Arizona woman says she felt ashamed and humiliated after a pharmacist, citing moral objections, refused to dispense a pregnancy-terminating drug that was prescribed for her after she learned she was about to miscarry. Nicole Arteaga, 35, of Peoria, said the encounter happened last Thursday at a local Walgreens. Her Facebook post about it has gone viral, […]
The Food and Drug Administration approved the prescription cannabidiol medicine Monday to treat rare and severe forms of epilepsy. FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb also issued an immediate statement saying this wasn’t an approval of marijuana, in general — and said anyone wanting to use cannabis-based products to treat disease must prove they are safe […]
