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Opioid prescriptions in the USA have fallen over the past decade or so. But the numbers are still enormous. In 2020, US pharmacies filled more than 140 million prescriptions for opioids, enough to medicate 43% of the population. Some 10 million Americans are thought to misuse opioids, a category of drug that includes heroin, methadone, and morphine.
It takes less than a quarter of an hour for Silent Pandemic to give up on the pharmaceutical industry. First we hear from Ella Balasa, a 29-year-old American who is finding it increasingly difficult to overcome the bacterial infections related to her cystic fibrosis. She faces the frightening prospect that what is now difficult will soon become impossible. We then cross the Atlantic for an interview with Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, who notes that there is a lag of at least 10 years between the identification of an actionable target and the entry into the market ...
Paediatrician who pioneered the use of oral rehydration therapy. Born on Nov 12, 1934 in what is now Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, he died on Oct 16, 2022 in Kolkata, India, aged 87 years.
Hans appears to have a positive mindset. In fact, he tells me, positivity runs in the family. Now 50 years old, he lives with his wife and 17-year-old daughter in a small town in Zeeland, the westernmost coastal province of the Netherlands. In 2005, Hans found out he had a granulomatous disease of unknown cause. Out of nowhere, one day, everything changed: “In the morning, I was fine. In the evening, I had a fever of 41 degrees so we called the doctor. The next day I was in the hospital and a few days later they told me I had pulmonary sarcoidosis”.
A leading authority on Wilson's disease. He was born in London, UK, on April 24, 1920 and died of bronchopneumonia in Hemingford Grey, UK, on Oct 14, 2022 aged 102 years.