Clinical medicine

On the market there are nutritional supplements for weight loss with banned substances, warn the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union. Most often they are available online.

Parliament on Thursday approved legislation allowing the manufacture of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

The new legislation sets out the rules governing the cultivation and production of the particular types of the plant that are used for pharmaceutical purposes, as well as the operation of manufacturing units.

Manuel and his wife never stop coughing but they’re happy: At least their baby doesn’t have measles anymore.

After the peak of the flu, 120,000 people are currently ill and at least 100 of them have severe respiratory failure. This was stated in Nova TV by Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev from the Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in "Health Bulgaria".

A draft bill laying the ground rules governing cannabis production in Greece was submitted to Parliament on Wednesday.

The bill, a document prepared jointly by officials at the Health, Economy, Agriculture and Justice ministries, seeks to end the country's reliance on foreign imports of medical cannabis.

Five people have died of complications related to the flu in the past two weeks, data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) showed on Thursday, suggesting that the flu season is getting under way.

None had received a flu vaccination, KEELPNO said.

Last year's flu season started in mid-December and was particularly harsh, claiming 108 lives.

Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has shut down a racket that smuggled large quantities of cannabis to Europe hidden in sacks of rice.

American rocker Tom Petty died in October of an accidental drug overdose after taking a variety of medications for his ailments including a mix of opioid painkillers, his family and the Los Angeles county medical examiner said Jan. 19.

Are you tempted to stop a powerful sneeze? Better not, recommend British experts who have encountered unusual serious consequences of attempts to suppress the reflex, the Associated Press and Daily Express report.

Nine foreign backpackers, including five from France, were rushed to hospital in various states of “agitated delirium” after ingesting a travel sickness drug they mistook for cocaine and falling seriously ill, Australian authorities and reports said.