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Drug used for horses makes its way to COVID-19 patient prescriptions

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Drug used for horses makes its way to COVID-19 patient prescriptions

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A drug commonly given to horses is now making its way onto prescriptions for patients fighting COVID-19 in Southwest Florida.  The drug is called Ivermectin, and it’s been around since the 1980s. Ivermectin is approved to treat scabies, or bed bugs, in humans.  Dr. Sunil Lalla, a critical care pulmonologist with Lee Health, is writing scripts to help patients with COVID-19.  “We are using it on patients that have long-term COVID,” said Dr. Lalla. “It is an overall safe drug that has been used […]

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State raid, federal convictions don’t end Brattleboro drug house woes

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State raid, federal convictions don’t end Brattleboro drug house woes

Police have responded to 33 Oak St. in Brattleboro about 150 times since a drug raid there a year and a half ago. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — Neighbors of the seemingly stately apartment house at 33 Oak St. can recount the Christmas 2018 report of a drug dealer holding two women inside at gunpoint, the February 2019 raid and seizure of narcotics, firearms and ammunition, and the April 2019 follow-up press conference where Vermont’s U.S. attorney and 20 top federal, state and local authorities promised […]

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