The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has called for a 'firm commitment' to prosecuting those making profits through the sale of DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol).
It has also urged the social media companies to 'remove content promoting or selling DNP to further reduce harm'.
Legislation to regulate DNP will come into effect on 1 October 2023. On Monday (23 January) it was announced that DNP will be included in the 1972 Poisons Act.
President of RPS Professor Claire Anderson said: "DNP is unfit for human consumption and its main use is in the manufacture of explosives and pesticides. It is
sold by unscrupulous dealers to vulnerable individuals wanting to lose weight but has a dangerous effect on the metabolism and has led to 32 deaths since 2007 in
those taking it as a 'diet drug'.
"Including DNP in the Poisons Act is a positive move as it will restrict its availability, but what's really needed is an outright ban to reduce the risk to the
public. Australia has already classified DNP as a substance of such a danger to health as to warrant prohibition of sale and we'd like the UK to follow suit.
The UK government has decided to ban disposable vapes to tackle the rise in youth vaping and protect children's health, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
announced on Sunday (28 January 2024) during a visit to a school.
Official figures revealed that the number of children using vapes has tripled in the past three years, with nine per cent of 11 - to 15-year-olds now affected
by this rising trend.
Disposable vapes are believed to be mainly driving the worrisome rise in youth vaping, with the number of 11- to 17-year-old vapers using disposables estimated
to have increased by almost ninefold in the last two years.
Sunak said: "As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment is the rise in vaping among children, and so we must act before it
becomes endemic.
"The long-term impacts of vaping are unknown and the nicotine within them can be highly addictive, so while vaping can be a useful tool to help smokers quit,
marketing vapes to children is not acceptable."
In response to the concerning surge in youth vaping, the UK government in January announced its decision to ban disposable vapes as a measure to safeguard
the health of children.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that while the long-term impacts of vaping were uncertain, the nicotine present in these products can be highly addictive.
Therefore, he emphasised that "marketing vapes to children is not acceptable."
Now, there's a stronger reason to crack down on vape sales as a new study has revealed that vaping or the use of e-cigarettes may increase the risk of developing
heart failure.
The study, which involved 175,000 adults in the United States, found that those who use e-cigarettes were 19 per cent more likely to develop heart failure over a
four-year period.
Dr Yakubu Bene-Alhasan, lead author of the study, from MedStar Health in Baltimore, underscored that an increasing number of studies are linking e-cigarettes with
harmful effects, suggesting vaping "might not be as safe as previously thought."
With further research, Dr Bene-Alhasan's team plans to uncover "a lot more about the potential health consequences and improve the information out to the public."
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has alerted pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy owners via email regarding new emergency legislation
governing the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones, commonly known as 'puberty blockers', for children and young people under 18 in England,
Wales, and Scotland.
The regulations apply to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues, used to suppress puberty as part of treating gender incongruence or gender dysphoria in
individuals under 18.
Effective from 3 June 2024, new private prescriptions for GnRH analogues from prescribers in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland who are not UK
registered are banned from being dispensed in Great Britain for patients under 18.
The emergency ban on these medicines will remain in effect until September 3, 2024, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced on 29 May, stating
that the action has been taken to address risks to "patient safety."
Tình trạng hẹp bao quy đầu ở người trưởng thành khiến cho da quy đầu sau khi lộn ra không thể trở về được như ban đầu, ảnh hưởng lớn đến chất lượng đời sống quan hệ và sự phát triển của cơ quan sinh dục
Nam giới bị Nghẹt Bao Quy Đầu cần phải phát hiện sớm và đến bệnh viện điều trị kịp thời, nếu bệnh ở mức độ nhẹ có thể dùng tay tự lộn quy đầu trở lại vị trí ban đầu
Nam giới bị Nghẹt Bao Quy Đầu cần phải phát hiện sớm và đến bệnh viện điều trị kịp thời, nếu bệnh ở mức độ nhẹ có thể dùng tay tự lộn quy đầu trở lại vị trí ban đầu
Ở nam giới sùi mào gà thường xuất hiện ở rãnh quy đầu, Bao Quy Đầu, miệng sáo biểu hiện ban đầu là các nốt sùi nhỏ, mềm cao dần lên như nhú gai đường kính 1-2 mm
Sùi mào gà cho các triệu chứng điển hình và cụ thể nhất đó là những tổn thương sùi, xuất phát ban đầu là những mụn thịt nhỏ li ti tại vị trí nhiễm bệnh (khắp bộ phận sinh dục cả nam và nữ giới, háng, bẹn, hậu môn, miệng…), sau liên kết thành những đám, mảng sùi lớn, có kích thước từ vài mm thậm chí là vài cm, bên trên có nhiều nhú gai li ti, tổn thương màu hồng tươi và khi ấn có thể ra mủ, khi bị cọ xát, tác động mạnh có thể gây chảy máu, rất dễ bội nhiễm, có mùi hôi khó chịu
Trong thực tế, có không ít trường hợp chị em khi mới phát hiện các triệu chứng ban đầu của bệnh viêm lộ tuyến đều chủ quan hoặc cho rằng đó là triệu chứng viêm nhiễm phụ khoa thông thường, cũng có trường hợp vì chần chừ, e ngại việc đi khám chữa bệnh khiến bệnh ngày càng nghiêm trọng hơn và nguy hại cho sức khỏe.
ovial accounts of a jubilant drink:
Coffee is not bad if done within limits. In fact, there are many who will be absolutely shocked on putting this crisis buster under such gruesome lights. So you may well imagine what it means to them putting on those really heavy stigmas; however, lighten up before we make our Cup of Joe (it's 'JOE'; not joy as many think it to be) appear for the court martial; discussing the secrets behind this human name will lighten things up to several degrees. At least, that's what coffee did to the U.S. Navy crews when alcohol was banned aboard in 1914 and the idea of the U.S. Navy secretary - Joe Daniels - clung on big time.
His name, thus, has ever since been immortalized and perhaps envied big time by the Turkish soul who left behind the beans while retreating from Austria. He now has a pal, too; the Viennese guy who, out of compulsion, added plenteous milk and sugar to the brew and made the world's first cappuccino, named to show the friar from the Capuchin order of monks the due respects for his bravery against the Turks.
But all that is history and we are dealing with the present.