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Wuhan Residents, Intl Groups Pay Tribute 1 Year After Chinese Whistleblower Doctor’s Death
Thousands of Chinese netizens and scores of international rights groups paid tribute to Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang on Feb. 7, marking the one-year anniversary of his death from the virus that he had sought to warn other doctors about.
Li, an ophthalmologist, was one of eight whistleblowers who warned on Chinese social media in late December 2019 about an “unknown pneumonia” outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Local authorities didn’t welcome the warning and only confirmed the outbreak after the doctors’ posts went viral.
He was summoned on Jan. 3, 2020, to a police station, where he was reprimanded for “rumor-mongering” and forced to sign a “confession statement.” The document accused him of “disturbing social order” and “breaking the law” for his online activities. It warned that he would be “punished by the law” if he continued such “illeg
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Nearly 11 percent of people admitted to an intensive care unit in Sweden between 2010 and 2018 received opioid prescriptions on a regular basis for at least six months and up to two years after discharge. That is according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in
Critical Care Medicine. The findings suggest some may become chronic opioid users despite a lack of evidence of the drugs long-term effectiveness and risks linked to increased mortality. We know that the sharp rise in opioid prescriptions in the U.S. has contributed to a deadly opioid crisis there, says first author Erik von Oelreich, PhD student in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet. Now, there are signs that opioid prescriptions have increased in parts of Europe and it is therefore important to find out to what extent opioid prescriptions during and after intensive care may contribute to long-term use and its consequences.