Health care providers and medical marijuana patients and supporters reacted to Senate defeat of medical marijuana legislation by vowing to renew the fight. SB 650, sponsored by Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago), failed by a vote of 22-29, with four voting “present.”
According to the American Cancer Society, about 440,000 people die in the United States from smoking-related illnesses every year.
The focus of work in the Neurosciences Department?s Neurobiology Laboratory at the University of the Basque Country?s Faculty of Medicine and Odontology is the investigation of the molecular and cellular bases of neurodegenerative illnesses ? those that affect the brain and the spinal cord.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President and CEO Billy Tauzin issued the following statement today regarding the importation amendment attached to the PDUFA reauthorization bill:
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has recalled two ‘herbal’ medicines , Excite for women and Ultimates for men.
Coronary artery bypass surgery has been the preferred treatment for patients with a blockage in the left main coronary artery, the conduit that supplies blood to about two-thirds of the heart. However, in recent years this has been challenged by stent placement in this critical artery.
While drug-eluting stents are effective in keeping open diseased heart arteries, they should not be used for patients who need to have noncardiac surgery a short time after an interventional heart procedure. A presentation at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions in Orlando by cardiologists at Jefferson Medical College indicates that for these patients, bare metal stents provide a safer choice.
Sales of herbal dietary supplements have skyrocketed by 100 percent in the United States during the last 10 years, but most people don?t consider evidence-based indications before using them, according to a University of Iowa study published in this month?s Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
People with HIV who drop out of care do not live as long as those who remain under a doctor’s treatment, said Baylor College of Medicine and Veterans Affairs researchers in a report published in the June 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available on line.
A ground-breaking Australian study involving UNSW has revealed alarming levels of malnutrition in the elderly, with close to 80 percent malnourished or at risk when first admitted to hospital.