People who would like to take medical marijuana, may consider living where medical marijuana or marijuana is legal.
Please write about places where medical marijuana is legal. Also a bit about about the particular area and why it is a good place to live.
So they can grow their own marijuana at home in peace or purchase it. Having to take marijuana illegally can cause stress to a patient who is trying to deal with their illness.
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August
Healthcare City & Boston U. Ink DealForbes has a report which states that Dubai Healthcare City and BU's School of Dental Medicine have a signed a preliminary agreement to operate an institute at Dubai Healthcare City focusing on research, training and treatment.
"Dubai Healthcare City was launched three years ago (more...)
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August
After all the fuss, I thought that I should take Google Health for a real test drive. So I did. Given that it contains a gazillion screenshots, I did it in the form of a slide show and uploaded it to the slideshare.net website. To view it, you’re best off using the full screen mode (which you can get to by opening “view†(the middle of the three links below the slides, and then clicking the “full button†on the bottom right in the slide on slideshare).
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August
House Passes Prescription Drug Safety Reforms - CALPIRG
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August

Certainly I'm not a lawyer. So when I received this inquiry about Cutera selling in violation of FDA guidelines, I decided to post it here on the main page and see what the thoughts around it are.
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4
August
Surgery--90% off Steve Forbes unloads on the health care crisis, medical tourism, organ transplants and state health care regulations in an article in Forbes. ( free registration required )
"The hospitals and physicians are usually first-rate and, amazingly, can provide operations at 10% to 30% of the cost in the (more...)
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August
With less than loud fanfare -- barely a peep, really -- the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) finally last week released its ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan.
The plan is more than two years overdue and came only after scolding from a Government Accountability Office report in 2006 and an internal, semi-secret review of ONC's doings by the Institute of Medicine late in 2007. The IOM criticized ONC for the lack of a viable strategic road map almost four years after President Bush's call for interoperable health information technology and personal health records. A lot has happened since 2004 in this area, though you'd hardly know it reading the ONC Plan.
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August