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  • sativex as alternative to medical marijuana

    So just how much is this medicine going to cost. Up to now the pharmaceutical industry has not been able to profit from medical marijuana. Marinol has quite limited uses, so there is not much money in it. Also the delivery system, a pill, is not conducive to getting high versus getting stoned. But a spray, you can get high with. It's just really ...
    Posted to Human Nature by jharasymiw on May 27, 2009

  • Condoning torturers

    Licenses are granted by the state, but professional degrees and certifications are granted by professional peers. Although the President and the Dept. of Justice may choose not to hold torturers accountable to the standards established after World War II, the lawyers and doctors who condoned torture must nevertheless be held by their peers to the ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Paradoxical on April 21, 2009

  • Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

    I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009

  • Soldier Robots Showcased In Israel

    Israel's leading robotic industries display their latest innovations, with devices designed for spheres as varying as combat and medicine. http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news/soldier-robots-showcased-in-israel.html
    Posted to Ballot Box by wilsontruth on November 24, 2008

  • Garlic and the flu

    The people of the middle ages were onto something when they wore garlic and ate it to protect them from disease. As a 25 year US RN- I became burnt on the ''get em some pills and get to the rest of the 80 patients quick'' practice of western medicine. I began to explore alternatives. What an incredible world! I now see that corporations - drug ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by redneckliberalpostbush on November 21, 2008

  • What concerns me..

    Many years ago, men donated anonymously to sperm banks, and no telling how many times they returned to the same sperm bank. I wonder how many of those children, who are now adults, have come in contact with half-siblings, AND perhaps even married a half-brother or half-sister??? Also, a lot of men donated sperm for money. Can you just imagine ...
    Posted to Human Nature by GRSandGS on November 13, 2008

  • multiple sclerosis

    I think the agonizing decision as to whether or not to use this critcial drug should be made by the patient. Many will avoid it completely.
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by david wayne osedach on October 31, 2008

  • ER reform ideas

    Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008

  • Homeopathic medicine is an oxymoron

    When one purchases a homeopathic ''medicine'' one is buying water, plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less. The placebo effect may explain its ''benefits'', though that begged the question until recently. More and more it is being shown how mental processes influence bodily functions [and vice versa]. The beauty of Western medicine is not ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Tom Clarke on September 5, 2008

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
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