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WASHINGTON 鈥?A panel of government health advisers said Friday ther stanley cup nz es no clear evidence that a harder-to-crush version of the painkiller OxyContin designed to discourage abuse actually resulted in fewer overdoses or deaths.The conclusion from the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel comes more than a decade after Purdue Pharma revamped its blockbuster opioid, which has long been blamed for sparking a surge in painkiller abuse since the 1990s.In a series of non-binding votes, the FDA experts said that the updated OxyContin appeared to cut down abuse via snorting and injecting, compared to the original drug. But panelis stanley de ts overwhelmingly ruled that data from Purdue and other researchers did not show that the ref stanley cup usa ormulation curbed abuse overall or led to fewer overdoses.Panelists said the shortcomings were due, in part, to the challenges of studying overdoses, which often involve multiple drugs. I think its very difficult to tease out cause of death and overdose, said Dr. Lewis Nelson of Rutgers University. Overall, I think the quality of evidence was fairly poor. The long-acting OxyContin tablets can still be misused by simply swallowing them, which remains the most frequent route among those with opioid addiction.The FDA will consider the groups opinions as it weighs revisiting OxyContins terms of approval. That could include scaling back the drugs prescribing labeling, which states that it is expected to reduce abuse via injecting and snorting.Purdues 2010 revamped O Aqhz After suit, New Jersey to house inmates based on gender ID
JOHANNESBURG 鈥?The South African doctor whose family was killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul is still working at an Afghanistan hospital. Hannelie Groenewald was quoted in a South stanley cup African newspaper Tuesday that she believes there is a reason her life was spared. Groenewalds husband Werner, 46, her son, Jean-Pierre, 17, a stanley italy nd daught stanley cup usa er, Rode, 15, were killed when three Taliban militants stormed the office of a foreign aid group on Saturday, where the family also lived. The teenagers were shot in the head, according to the newspaper report. I am OK, Groenewald told the Afrikaans daily newspaper, Beeld. I have peace in my heart. I know where my husband and children are. Groenewalds husband was a former pastor who worked as national director of Partnership in Academics and Development, a foreign aid group with offices in Redlands, California. Hannelie Groenewald still works as a doctor at a local clinic. The family moved to Kabul in 2002, where the teenagers attended an international school in the city. They were a very ordinary South African family but very committed to the people of Afghanistan, said Teresa Conradie, the familys attorney in Pretoria. Two Afghan citizens were also killed in the attack. One of the attackers exploded a suicide vest and the two others were killed in a gunfight with police. At least one of the militants wore a police uniform, authorities said. Groenewald said all the familys personal documents were destroyed in the ensuing fire. PAD has since clo |