The New Mexico Department of Health has approved the first nonprofit in New Mexico to produce medical cannabis for patients in the Department’s Medical Cannabis Program. Nonprofits are allowed to produce up to 95 mature plants and seedlings as well as a usable inventory of medical cannabis to meet the needs of patients in the [...]
A Los Angeles jury has ordered the Kaiser HMO and an affiliated physician group practice to pay $11.4 million in damages for retaliating against a staff radiologist who complained about poor patient care at one of its Los Angeles-area hospitals.
The case, which led to a Dec. 11, 2008, decision favoring Dr. Michael Martinucci in Los [...]
150 years after Darwin published his theory of evolution, VIB researchers connected to Ghent University have discovered that DNA duplications have given plants an evolutionary advantage. This mechanism enabled plants – in contrast to the dinosaurs – to survive the ‘Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction’ of 65 million years ago. With the aid of the latest bioinformatics [...]
Sunlight is a vital component of good health. Like plants that thrive in the sun, we humans too depend on sunlight, in our case for the production of vitamin D. In the past few decades, however, cultural trends have steered us away from sun exposure. From fear of the potential dangers of UV radiation and [...]
Arizona is on track for another record-breaking year for rabid animals. After last year’s astounding 176 laboratory-confirmed rabies cases, 47 animals have tested positive for rabies this year. Most of the animals came from the desert southeast area of the state and in the recreation areas near Flagstaff and Sedona.
“With this great weather, people need [...]
Aspirin should be recommended to reduce the risk of heart attack in men aged 45 – 79 and to reduce the risk of stroke in women aged 55 – 79 who do not have heart disease, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recommended.(1)
The USPSTF(2) states that men aged 45 – 79 should be [...]
Neoprobe Corporation (OTCBB: NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, announced that a multicenter Phase 3 study of Lymphoseek® has reached the accrual of 203 lymph nodes, the study’s primary accrual objective. The multi-center open label study has been conducted in patients with either breast cancer or melanoma. Based [...]
The intervention of lay health workers can be beneficial in increasing breast and cervical cancer screening among low-income Hispanic women, reports a new study.
Participants in this study were women 50 and older who were non-adherent to mammography or Pap test screening guidelines. Researchers developed an educational intervention (“Cultivando La Salud”/Cultivating Health), which was administered by [...]
A new international study finds that adolescents from families of low affluence reported a higher prevalence of being victims of bullying.
Researchers examined the socioeconomic distribution of adolescent exposure to bullying by surveying 162,305 students, ages 11, 13 and 15, from nationally representative samples of 5,998 schools in 35 countries in Europe and North America for [...]
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