Dispensary Corner 27 May 14
May 27, 2014
JUST so random.
The UK’s Medicines and
Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) has issued
an alert about an individual
impersonating a member of its
staff.
The random thing is, this
‘Karen Smith’ has rung only one
company and asked to speak to
the “head of engineering” about
“procedural infrastructure”,
claiming to be from the MHRA
Regulatory Licensing Group.
MHRA said it did not have such
an employee but we’re imagining
someone’s trying to pin down
the building’s blue prints for an
infiltration of its walls.
SPACED out.
A bit out of left field but, did
you know there’s an area of
study called space medicine? It
looks at the practice of medicine
for astronauts in outer space,
and there can be a LOT of things
to work on, from loss of bone
density and muscle mass to
radiation effects and more.
Space Safety Magazine took a
look at the contents of medical
kits over the years of space travel.
Evolving from the 1961 Project
Mercury’s “very rudimentary” kits
with autoinjectors (syringes which
gave a single dose of medicine)
that could deliver anti-motion
sickness medication, a stimulant
and a vasoconstrictor for shock,
the publication reported that the
International Space Station now
has two separate medical kits,
one for the Russian segment and
one for the US part.
The US kit has about 190
medicaments, as well as
diagnostic equipment and
emergency resuscitation devices,
the publication reported.
COME pick up your rabid racoons.
Hopefully someone had their
vaccinations - the Westchester
County Health Department has
asked the person who left five
baby raccoons on its doorstep
to be assessed immediately for
rabies, AP reports.
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