Add to ORKGIT is indeed tragic to read about the death of our youths following the (mis)use of a cocktail of designer drugs, including Ecstasy, which are wrongly dubbed as "party drugs" (NST, June 12). The recent report linking seemingly innocuous "painkillers" to heart attacks because of prolonged use is a case in point (NST, June 11). A recent study in Britain showed that a number of common painkillers, taken daily by hundreds of thousands of arthritis patients, raises significantly the risk of a heart attack. The class of drugs involved in clude ibuprofen, diclofenac and naproxen. The newer ones are celecoxib and rofecoxib
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Poisonings are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity. A 16th century physician, Paracelsus,...
The exhibits are an effective way of reminding us how fortunate we are, and how not to take for gra...
It only gets worse. The recent Ops Sikap,the joint police and Road Transport Department operations t...
ECSTASY, A COMMONLY understood noun, means "overpowering emotion, especially delight". It has recent...
The ‘Belia Benci Dadah’ programme has only a slim chance to succeed like the ‘Tak Nak’ antismoking ...
HERE'S A QUICK LOOK AT POISONING cases that took place globally in 1996. The United States In Colo...
THE THOUGHT OF FEEDING BABIES with any substance of dubious origin is really unthinkable. Even in th...
TOWARDS THE YEAR END, CONCERN about food poisoning mounted after a number of such cases were report...
"A CHILD LEARNS BY DOING. HE GAINS experience by investigating the world around him. For his experie...
In the second half of 1995, poisoning tragedies continued unabated. The next part of the Poison Diar...
EIDULMUBARAK, or better known locally as Hari Raya Aidilfitri, the festival to end the holy month o...
TOBACCO IN ANY FORM IS undoubtedly a poisonous substance (see Healthtrack, May 30, June 6,13,20 and ...
IT has been a month since the King of Pop died and the cause of his death is still under a shroud of...
WE all acknowledge that life can be full of ironies. Indeed, some would say that is what makes the w...
FORMER US Education Secretary William J. Bennett showed his true colours recently when he said on a ...
Poisonings are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity. A 16th century physician, Paracelsus,...
The exhibits are an effective way of reminding us how fortunate we are, and how not to take for gra...
It only gets worse. The recent Ops Sikap,the joint police and Road Transport Department operations t...