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Russians are panic-buying medicines amid Western sanctions, boycotts

Enlarge / A woman wearing a face mask leaves a pharmacy in the town of Podolsk some 40 kilometers outside Moscow on November 12, 2021. (credit: Getty | YURI KADOBNOV ) As Western countries continue to ratchet up sanctions and boycotts against Russia, the country’s citizens are panic-buying medicines, such as antidepressants, sleeping pills, and […]

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Judge’s order requiring hospital to give COVID patient ivermectin called “unethical”

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A county judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital in Cincinnati to administer ivermectin to an intensive care patient, a move raises questions about the role of the courts in the medical system. “It is absurd that this order was issued, ” Arthur Caplan , professor of bioethics […]

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