Sentences with phrase «injection site in»

The Supreme Court of Canada rendered judgment today, granting application for appeal in PHS Community Services Society v. Canada, the case of the Insite supervised injection site in B.C. I attended the hearings in Vancouver at the Court of Appeal last summer and posted my notes here on Slaw.

A unanimous Supreme Court ordered the federal minister of Health to issue an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (which provides criminal penalties for trafficking and the possession of drugs) to a supervised drug injection site in Vancouver's downtown eastside.

North America's lone supervised - needle injection site in Vancouver won a constitutional reprieve from the country's top court, which blasted the Conservative government for its «arbitrary» and moralistic approach.

As a result of his work, the only legal, supervised drug injection site in North America will stay open to provide a safe place for use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and morphine.

Both rabies virus and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) vaccines have been associated with causing cancer at the injection site in cats.

This is to decrease the very rare instances where a tumor forms at the injection site in cats.

At Insite, a safe - injection site in Vancouver, for example, there was a 35 percent reduction in fatal overdoses in the area around the facility, compared with a 9.3 percent reduction in other parts of the city that may have had other interventions.

Melissa Moore, New York State's deputy director for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), told Observer that at Insite, the safe injection site in Vancouver, 35 percent of participations get a referral to detox or treatment.

In 2003, Vancouver opened the first legal safe injection site in North America.

Rosenthal said there are nearly 100 supervised injection sites in 10 countries around the world, including Canada, Germany and Spain.

Another example this month was Staten Island congressional candidate Michael Grimm blasting Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal for four safe injection sites in New York City.

«Reports of a sarcoma (a cancerous mass arising from bone, cartilage, fat or muscle) developing at the site of vaccine injection sites in some animals have led to the suspicion of a link between the vaccine and a disposition in some animals to this type of reaction,» reports PetMD.

Not exact matches

Parents will be given a say «before drug injection sites open in their communities,» the government promised, while also saying it will close loopholes that «allow for the feeding of addiction under the guise of treatment.»

Re-introduce and pass the Respect for Communities Act to ensure that parents have a say before drug injection sites open in their communities;

Some of the reactions might show up in the form of itching, swelling, vomiting, and redness at the site of the injection mark.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is backing the establishment of safe injection sites for heroin, designating four facilities in a one - year pilot program.

They've introduced supervised injection sites, and look as though - with backing from the Gardai no less - they'll soon become only the second nation in the world to decriminalise the possession of all drugs.

And in Erie County, where overdose deaths related to heroin and prescription drugs are on track to wipe out the county's recent population gain, Republican Senate candidate Chris Jacobs is touting his opposition to a proposal for injection sites.

She noted that the governor accepted the recommendations of his own task force back in 2014 that was formed to propose a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020, which called for — among many other things — the establishment of legal injection sites.

A determined group of advocates held sit - ins by the mayor's office and just outside City Hall on Thursday over the issue of supervised injection sites — forcing the mayor to...

Last year, 1,441 people died from overdoses in the city and there are already plenty of «unsafe injection sites» across the five boroughs that are problem spots for neighborhoods and the NYPD.

Malliotakis was responding to New York Health Commissioner Mary Bassett's testimony last week in front of the City Council calling for the establishment of drug injection sites.

Speaking to the Times, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick acknowledged the proposal to have a safe heroin injection site first sounded crazy to him, but was needed in order to combat the scourge of drug addiction.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick has received plenty of criticism on his proposed first - in - the - nation medically assisted heroin injection site, but some prevention specialists and other drug policy committees are commending his new approach.

Though no injection sites exist yet in the United States, the endorsement of the strategy by New York may give the movement behind it special impetus.

Grimm, a convicted felon, deemed injection sites «criminal enablement» and «dangerous» in a lengthy statement that cited nothing to back up his claim.

Not to be outdone, Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis asked the Trump administration to block the injection sites because they would «signal to users that addiction is a manageable condition and you can partake in illegal opioid use nearly risk - free.»

Both people wrote, when Schoeneman was asked about «safe injection sites,» she stated she was in favor of them.

New York City could become the first city in the United States to adopt supervised injection facilities — also known as safe injection sites — in an effort to combat drug overdose deaths and the opioid epidemic.

In Part 2 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about the city's data on sexual harassment complaints in city government, his views on safe injection sites, and a corruption case involving former NYPD officialIn Part 2 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about the city's data on sexual harassment complaints in city government, his views on safe injection sites, and a corruption case involving former NYPD officialin city government, his views on safe injection sites, and a corruption case involving former NYPD officials.

That's where safe injection sites would come in.

Researchers report that the only substantial difference in safety outcomes between the placebo and bococizumab groups was injection site reactions, which is also the result of the immunologic response in some patients.

These advantages are not confined solely to HNSCC; the tracer may be particularly helpful where the injection site is located very close to the sentinel node, and also in other tumour locations.»

Then they injected capsaicin, the active molecule in hot pepper, under the skin and lightly tapped the area with a blunt, rigid nylon filament — starting at six centimeters away, and tapping closer and closer to the injection site.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

The therapy had a favorable safety profile with the most common adverse event reported as irritation at injection site, which was reported in the placebo group as well.

The researchers found that injection site and systemic reactogenicity (adverse reactions) rates in pregnant women were not significantly different than those observed among postpartum or nonpregnant women.

A different approach using basalt flows as injection sites — chiefly at the CarbFix site in Iceland and in Washington state — has yielded dramatic results.

In pre-clinical tests, Novartis researchers looked to see if the virus spread to any other tissues, but found it was restricted to the site of injection.

The new study, published this month in the journal The Leading Edge, provides a color - coded map of the 75,000 - square mile region that identifies those potential oil and gas development sites that would be would be most likely to trigger an earthquake associated with fluid injection.

The immune system reaction stops this compromised foreign invader in its tracks at the site of injection.

The rates of surgical site infection were significantly higher in patients with an injection prior to TKR than those without (4.4 percent versus 3.6 percent), as were the rates of infection requiring a return to the operating room (1.5 percent versus 1 percent).

For Spark, the injection site is the eyes of people, mostly children and young adults, who have a type of inherited retinal disease caused by a mutation in a gene called RPE65.

This action obstructs the movement of nerve impulses near the site of injection, but there are no changes in awareness and sense perception in other areas.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

The researchers report mild side effects, such as swelling around the injection site and mild to moderate flu symptoms in some participants within a week of getting the vaccine.

In a planning document, WHO pointed out multiple logistical issues, including «the ability to safely and securely transport the intervention to the delivery site, the existence of safe and secure storage facilities with appropriate cold chain capacity, the availability of sterile equipment to administer injections.»

Twenty - four hours after the injection, the researchers saw large numbers of immune system white blood cells in tissue samples of the rodent brains near the site of injury of those mice injected with the cytokine IL - 1b, but not in the brain tissue of the control group of mice.

The new study shows that locations that experienced earthquakes are tied in proximity and timeliness to mass waste water injection sites.

The water well was a few miles away from the leaking injection well site, but environmental officials said the contaminants discovered in the water well were unrelated, mostly because they didn't include the level of sodium typical of brine.