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Medical Marijuana to Be Legalized

...a would be beneficial. Under the bill, people with multiple sclerosis, cancer, AIDS, epilepsy or neuro-spinal damage, among other conditions, could grow marijuana indoors with a doctors recommendation and a state permit. Those individuals would be limited to possessing no more than 2½ ounces of cultivated p...

Teenagers Untimely Death Draws Attention To Safety Of Over The- Counter Drugs

...ry, plus an unspecified third product. "These were multiple products, used to great excess, and that's how she ended up with high levels," says Borakove. The products were used and the chemical absorbed over time, rather than from a single instance of overuse, she added. The warning labels on most muscle ...

Tougher Gun Show Controls in California Slash Sales of Weapons Linked to Crime

... purchases outside of California, the buyer bought multiple guns. Vendors in states outside California were 2.5 times more likely to sell assault weapons and all sellers of assault-type handgun and fully automatic weapons were in other states. Professor Barry Pless, editor of Injury Prevention, said he fe...

Study Reinforces Safety of Long-term Biologic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

... damage in patients with moderate RA activity over multiple years, which means the disease is halted at that stage. The study was conducted by a team of researchers at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. As part of the study, researchers analysed 2,054 patients receiving this biologic treatment for up to nine years by...

Researchers Cracking the Human Genome Function

...ational analysis project that integrated data from multiple consortium members, uncovering how different aspects of genome function relate to one another. The ENCODE project has given us unprecedented insight into how functional information is organized in the human genome, said Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos,...

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

... he wouldnt feel as much pressure to have sex with multiple partners. Whereas a woman feels freer to engage in sex within a relationship than outside of one because she runs less risk of being called derogatory names and being viewed negatively by a larger society. The study involved 219 women and 161 men i...

Equality Among Genders in Terms of Sex Dreams

...dreams were twice as likely to involve trysts with multiple partners, and were more likely to take place in pu...ile men were twice as likely to report dreaming of multiple sex partners. "Observed gender differences may be indicative of different waking needs, experiences...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...uestionable significance, but the joint effects of multiple gene variants within the pathway were profound, Lesnick explains. Not only did we identify persons with as much as a 90 times greater risk for Parkinsons disease, but we determined that the odds of our findings occurring by chance were less that one ...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...eight of 11 feet about two months ago. He suffered multiple fractures to his lumbar spine and was rendered completely immobile. Today, after stem cell therapy, Reddy is able to stand and move using a walker, and has regained bladder control and sensation in the lower body. The stem cell therapy isn't t...

New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval

...h is approved in Europe and Canada. Because of the multiple delays, Encysive lost a big lead over Gilead in the race for approval. Gilead said its clinical trials showed that Letairis caused fewer cases of liver damage than Actelions drug. Nevertheless, the F.D.A., warning about liver damage and birth defec...

Stem Cells- a Miraculous Boon

... are special because they can grow and divide into multiple types of cells. Stem cells that are derived from embryos are the most potent of all stem cells because they are able to mature into any cell type in the body. There are stem cells in a few places in the adult body, too, but these are more restricted ...

FDA Warns Against Buying of Counterfeit Drug Through Internet

The FDA has warned the consumer against the multiple sites that sell counterfeit prescription drugs. //This alert was issued after the FDA learned about the 24 related web sites that were involved in such activity. The FDA received information that counterfeit versions of Xenical 120 mg capsules was ...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...vous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke. Source-Newswis SRM/M...

World’s First Attempt To Restore Sight Using Gene Therap

...re the process is complicated by the need to reach multiple sites in the body. In contrast, the eye is relatively straightforward according to Andrew George of London's Imperial College."The eye is good for gene therapy because it is a simple organ and it is easy to see what is going on. There is hope that...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...he disease can spread rapidly by air, it could hit multiple producers if not detected, leading to a regional outbreak. The shortage is blamed on graduates of veterinary schools who opt for the regular hours and assumed better pay of small animal medicine, though surveys indicate the pay difference is largel...

Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Benefit With AVONEX(R) Nurse Services Program

...es program which is designed to help people //with multiple sclerosis (MS) as they begin and continue treatmen...he most common side effects associated with AVONEX multiple sclerosis treatment are flu-like symptoms, including myalgia, fever, fatigue, headache, chills, naus...

Chances of Developing Parkinson’s High Among Depressed Patient

...vous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke. Source-Eurekaert SRM/B...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

...ere has been a sharp increase in the occurrence of multiple sclerosis (MS) among women over time, but rates am...n 1940, twice as many women as men in the U.S. had multiple sclerosis, by 2000, four out of five cases were occurring among women, University of Alabama profess...

New Test Helps Identify Hepatitis C Patients at High Risk of Developing Cirrhosis

...r hepatitis C unfortunately is very expensive, has multiple side effects and a suboptimal response rate for most patients," said Cheung. Treatment includes weekly injections of alpha interferon along with the drug ribavirin, which can cost more than $30,000 per year and can cause flu-like symptoms, nausea, de...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

...out ways to repair white matter as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, which is also a disease of white matter. That research could now be used in thinking about neuropsychiatric disorders." Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood, but it is almost always preceded by subt...

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