Nursing - News September 10, 2013

FDA orders starker warnings on opioid painkillers (KHOU-TV Houston)
The Food and Drug Administration is requiring stronger warning labels on prescription painkillers like OxyContin, in the government's latest attempt to reduce overdose deaths caused by the long-acting medications.

Aging Nations Look to Vietnam to Fill Nursing Gap (Voice of America)
Lucien Blanchard, general manager of the Vietnam-France Hospital, signs a form for a nurse outside the facility in capital city Hanoi, March 2003.

Safe Sex After a Heart Attack (Men's Journal)
After any major health problem, it's understandable to feel trepidation when jumping back in the sack.

Shake-up of mental health care could see 50 jobs axed (Oxford Times)
And the changes include axing about 50 whole-time equivalent posts including 30 posts for frontline nurses and social workers.

List growing for SLCC nursing program (The Advocate)
Students interested in South Louisiana Community College's new, two-year registered nurse program could find out later this fall semester if they will be in the first class of 40 students who could start classes in March.

Anthem defends proposed insurance changes (Myrtle Beach Online)
Anthem officials told Maine insurance regulators - who will now decide whether to approve the proposal - that the changes will affect only a small number of Maine residents.

Legislators urged to act on painkiller addiction (The Indianapolis Star)
Mental health experts told a legislative study committee Monday that Indiana must do something to tide an invisible epidemic of prescription drug abuse that drags down not only hardcore addicts but people suffering from chronic pain and well-intentioned doctors who are simply out of their depth.

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