Sources: Addictions.com; Daily Mail CO UK; MSN.com Fentanyl, a powerful opioid, is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine. Just 2 milligrams of the substance can be lethal. When other, less-potent drugs are laced with it, they can be deadly, too. Connecticut has seen nearly 40 drug overdoses that officials believe to be linked to […]
Source: nj101.5.com With COVID cases spiking in Monmouth County, the National Park Service is now requiring masks for all visitors. A notice on the park website states: Masks are currently required in all federal buildings in Sandy Hook. Monmouth County is at HIGH COVID-19 community level, as identified by the CDC Masks are available for […]
MAN OF THE YEAR: Dr. Joshua Rempell, Camden An emergency medicine specialist and instructor at Cooper University Hospital, Dr. Rempell has also worked in South Sudan, Haiti and Rwanda. His most recent stop is the Ukraine, where he’s training civilian and military medical personnel alike in responding to “mass casualty events.” WOMAN OF THE YEAR: […]
Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin, has come out the closet about her ten-year bout with endometriosis — one of those diseases that “nice girls” don’t talk about. Next to being a drug that can immediately stop drug overdoses simply by being inhaled, what could Narcan possibly do for an encore? […]
Sources: Facebook; GoFundMe.com Back in Jersey Shore University Medical Center. Went to eat dinner. Came in the door round 10. Dropped to my knees in pain. Was fine walking in the door. CT scan shows where they re-attached my intestine to my stomach has torn and air has entered my stomach. Back to the operating […]
Source: GoFundMe.com As many of you probably know, Jim Squirrell, a trumpet player from around the Jersey Shore who has worked with various bands and also gave of his time playing with Holiday Express and the Salvation Army, is in desperate need for some serious help. Jim has had a lot of debilitating medical issues […]