'American Sniper' trial: The moments leading up to Chris Kyle's death
Meanwhile, Erath County District Attorney Alan Nash said in his opening argument, Routh was imbibing in drugs and alcohol. Routh had spent the prior night with a woman, Moore said, behaving erratically and proposing marriage to her before telling her … Read more on WHAS 11.com (subscription)

Stanislaus County woman falls victim to flu virus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that flu activity has been elevated for 11 consecutive weeks nationally and is expected to continue for several more weeks, especially in parts of the country where activity started later, such as … Read more on The Turlock Journal

Help & Support
Alcohol Anonymous: holds meetings daily throughout the Seacoast. … My Breast Cancer Support: A New Hampshire nonprofit organization based in Portsmouth, provides a number of tangible and practical support programs to breast cancer patients and their … Read more on Seacoastonline.com

Breast Cancer Care and Substance Abuse Awareness and Education to Benefit …
In addition, an endowed gift of $ 1.375 million will create the “Tina Posner Substance Abuse Education and Treatment Fund” to improve treatment and awareness of substance abuse through the Sandler Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Education in the … Read more on Business Wire (press release)

1st Dallas nurse with Ebola headed to Maryland
DALLAS (AP) – The first Dallas nurse to have contracted Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man has left a Dallas hospital. Nina Pham left Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in an ambulance escorted by police shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday. Read more on WBTW – Myrtle Beach and Florence SC

Georgia's 178-Acre Bluff Plantation Offers Comprehensive Inpatient Addiction …
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Today's opening of the premier luxury inpatient addiction facility on the East Coast, The Bluff Plantation marks a unique new partnership for alcohol and drug rehabilitation treatment as a progressive … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Obama cancels NJ fundraising visit for Ebola meeting
Chris Christie talks with women and staffers of The Center for Great Expectations in Somerset at 11:15 a.m., then makes a funding announcement for addiction treatment and prevention programs at 11:40 a.m. He's not taking questions from reporters at the … Read more on Asbury Park Press

Drinking – and Dying – in South Africa
Heroin use was highest in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, while alcohol abuse dominated in-patient centres in KwaZulu-Natal, the Northern Cape and the North West. "Substance abuse impacts negatively on the physical, social, spiritual and mental wellbeing of … Read more on AllAfrica.com

Women face challenges in fighting addiction, alcoholism
A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that in 2012 there were more than 1.7 million substance abuse treatment admissions domestically. Alcohol was the … Read more on GoErie.com

Women face gender-specific challenges in fighting addiction and alcoholism
Double that number for men, said Dr. John Eustace, medical director at the South Miami Hospital Addiction Treatment and Recovery Center. Alcohol abuse can result in liver damage, hepatitis, brain disease, breast cancer and heart disease. A report from … Read more on Centre Daily Times

Research Shows Positive Long–Term Outcomes in Fight Against Cushing's …
… of Korlym that led to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2012. He and other physicians have continued to follow patients who took part in the study in the years since it officially ended. He presented the outcomes of this long-term … Read more on Newswise (press release)

Newman's Notes: tPA — Get With the Evidence
In 2009-2010, they taught a bunch of hospital folks and physicians how to really get the thrombolytics on board even more quickly, using a number of strategies, like rushing patients for CT scans, mixing and preparing the drug immediately on arrival … Read more on MedPage Today

'Silently Suffering': Breast Cancer Before 40 and Sexuality
Recent practice-changing results from the Prevention of Early Menopause Study (POEMS) indicated that temporarily shutting down the ovaries during chemotherapy with the hormone-suppressing drug goserelin (Zoladex, AstraZeneca) decreases the risk for … Read more on Medscape

Infant's arm broken by father having 'adult tantrum'
RACINE – A Racine man is expected to be released from jail by tonight after he netted a probation term for fracturing his infant daughter's arm in January. Michael D. Canady, 23, was convicted of fracturing two bones in his then-3-month-old daughter's … Read more on Journal Times

Cancer Conference Winners And Losers
Poor Puma – and, really, every company developing a new breast cancer drug – is getting hit by collateral damage from a failed GlaxoSmithKline study testing Tykerb (one of the drugs Glaxo just sold to rival Novartis) as an addition to existing … Read more on Forbes

Addiction specialists emphasize importance of proper treatment
June 01– Area addiction specialists say there is a need for some types of drug treatment and changes to the amount of time that clients spend in treatment. Neil Capretto, a … Methadone clinics are in Pittsburgh , Butler , Greensburg , Blairsville … Read more on Insurance News Net

A Lazarus drug goes mainstream in the heroin war
By the early 2000s, easy access to these pills bred widespread addiction and a profitable, legal trade in painkillers. In 2012, some 2 million people tried prescription-strength opiates … Opiates are “a white drug,” according to Sandra L. Kuehn … Read more on Al Jazeera America

Drug Rehab Apollo Beach, FL Provides Youth Rehab Information
Callers can find information that will help them begin their recovery process and possibly even save their lives. There are a variety of treatment options available to young addicts who want to become sober. Parents can also learn with youth rehab … Read more on Ticker Report

A success story in cancer treatment
San Diego – 71-year-old Anastasia Custis Berkheimer, a member of "The Ukulele Babies," is now a two-time breast cancer survivor. On Monday she walked out of Scripps' brand new Proton Therapy Center to cheers and hugs. With the center opening just one … Read more on San Diego 6

Judge orders Chris Brown to remain in jail
The singer was arrested on Friday, March 14, 2014, after he was dismissed from a Malibu facility where he was receiving treatment for anger management, substance abuse and issues related to bipolar disorder. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, Pool) The … Read more on U-T San Diego

'Chavez' revives labor leader's legacy for next generation
Twenty-one years after his death at age 66 in 1993, "Cesar Chavez," directed by Diego Luna and starring Michael Peña, arrives in theaters this month. Focusing on successful efforts to unionize grape pickers and lead a strike and … Many younger … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle