For immediate publication: July 23, 2020 The US Food and Drug Administration announced today that it requires the labeling of opioid pain relievers and medications to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) to be updated to recommend that, as a routine part of prescribing these Medications, healthcare professionals discuss the availability …
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Congress ready to fight as unemployment cliff looms
Congress is moving toward a showdown over federal unemployment benefits, with millions of Americans in the balance. As part of the March $ 2.2 trillion coronavirus bill, Congress agreed to a $ 600 per week increase in unemployment benefits, but they will begin to expire in a matter of days. …
Read More »North Carolina professor found dead weeks after backlash over “slave state” tweets
On Thursday, authorities discovered the body of a white North Carolina professor who recently announced his retirement amid a backlash over his comments on social media, calling the state governor “Massa Cooper” and comparing coronavirus restrictions on living in a “slave state”. Lt. JJ Brewer of the New Hanover County …
Read More »Florida TV reporter thanks viewer who saw her cancer while watching the broadcast
A local Florida news reporter expressed gratitude Thursday to one of the station’s viewers, a total unknown, who contacted the journalist after seeing her on television and suspecting that she had undiagnosed cancer. “A little ~ personal news ~ to share,” Victoria Price of WFLA-TV in Tampa wrote on Twitter. …
Read More »Thriller filmed by Bandon ‘The Rental’: Director Dave Franco rates the thriller’s location in Oregon as beautiful and ‘sinister’
If you’ve felt compelled home and long for a getaway at a rental home on the Oregon Coast, “The Rental” will make you think staying home isn’t all that bad. The new thriller, which was shot in Bandon, features spectacular landscapes and a story that begins as a tense study …
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