Weed Microdosing Mice Study Brings Great News, But There's a Catch
While the tension between state and federal laws has created a difficult situation for cannabis…Read more Read more Published today in the journal Nature Medicine, the study finds that cannabis did not have an evident beneficial effect on the cognitive abilities of young mice (2-months-old). But in middle-aged (12-months-old) and elderly (18-months-old) mice, researchers observed what team leader Andreas Zimmerman calls “a very robust and profound effect.”To test their hypothesis, researchers r..>> view originalWhere You Live May Play Role in Cancer Risk
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, May 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Where you live appears to play a role in your risk of cancer, a new analysis suggests. "Overall environmental quality was very strongly associated with increased cancer risk," said study lead author Jyotsna Jagai. She's a research assistant professor in environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The study authors said 1 in 4 U.S. deaths are attributable to cancer. Each da..>> view originalAustralia vets exposed to atomic tests gain free health care
Australian ex-servicemen who were exposed to radiation during British atomic bomb tests in Australia and during the cleanup of Japan after World War II have won a decades-old campaign for free medical treatment. The Australian government announced on Tuesday it has allocated 133 million Australian dollars ($98 million) in the budget for the next fiscal year to provide these former troops with veterans' gold cards. The cards entitle certain veterans to an extensive range of free health care at t..>> view originalA dangerous mix of opioids called 'gray death' is causing overdoses in parts of the US
Associated Press/Elaine Thompson COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's being called "gray death" — a new and dangerous opioid combo that underscores the ever-changing nature of the U.S. addiction crisis. Investigators who nicknamed the mixture have detected it or recorded overdoses blamed on it in Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. The drug looks like concrete mix and varies in consistency from a hard, chunky material to a fine powder. The substance is a combination of several opioids blamed f..>> view originalMinnesota measles outbreak: Officials say Somali families 'targeted with misinformation'
Minnesota health officials said Monday that Somali families in the state had been "targeted with misinformation" about vaccines as the number of measles cases neared 50. The Minnesota Department of Health had confirmed 48 measles cases Monday, 46 of them in children under age 10. Forty-five of the confirmed cases are in Hennepin County and 41 cases involve Somali-Minnesotans. State health experts say Somali parents have been given bad information about vaccines, and wrongly associate the measl..>> view originalUS life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
Eight counties with the largest decreases in life expectancy since 1980 are in Kentucky. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) Life expectancy is rising overall in the United States, but in some areas, death rates are going conspicuously in the other direction. These geographical disparities are widening, according to a report published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Life expectancy is greatest in the high country of central Colorado, but in many pockets of the United States, life e..>> view originalTick-Borne Virus Worse Than Lyme Disease: New York Has 2nd Highest Number Of Cases
A rare, potentially deadly tick-borne disease has infected people in New York. And health officials say it's worse then Lyme disease. The same tick that carries Lyme can cause Powassan, otherwise known as POW. It is a virus infection that can impact the nervous system, memory, thinking and balance. In some cases, it can be deadly, according to health officials. A Minnesota woman died from Powassan in 2011. Brain swelling from the virus is was what caused her death, officials say. New York has ha..>> view originalEvidence behind reports of new baldness cure is a little thin
Monday May 8 2017 Around half of all 50 year olds have significant greying "Scientists studying cancer stumble on 'breakthrough' in search for baldness cure," announces The Daily Telegraph, adding that not only does this mean "a cream or ointment may soon cure baldness or stop hair turning grey" but also it could one day ... explain why we age". Sadly for those of us with grey, or no, hair on top, these claims are arguably premature. Researchers were a..>> view originalLiberian mystery disease may be solved
A new disease outbreak stirred memories of Liberia’s Ebola epidemic in 2014 and 2015, when health workers wore protective garb, but studies suggest it’s bacterial meningitis. DOMINIQUE FAGET/Staff/Getty Images Liberian mystery disease may be solved By Kai KupferschmidtMay. 8, 2017 , 5:45 PM When several people died suddenly late last month in Liberia after attending a funeral in the southern county of Sinoe, alarm bells sounded: Had Ebola returned to West Africa? In 2..>> view originalOver 7000 Bodies May Be Buried Beneath Mississippi University
In what sounds like a clichéd horror movie premise, a recent investigation suggests as many as 7,000 bodies are buried across 20 acres at the Mississippi Medical Center Campus—the former site of the state’s first mental institution. Officials at the university now face the grim task of pulling 100-year-old bodies out of the ground for scientific analysis.From 1855 to 1935, some 35,000 patients were admitted to the Insane Asylum, as it was called. Many of those who died during their stay were b..>> view original
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