Please share your thoughts on people growing medical marijuana to help their illness?
What places in the world is it legal to grow medicinal marijuana? Has anyone been given permission from the government to grow medical marijuana?
Any general thoughts on this topic would be terrific.
The FDA has recently issued a public heath notification alerting healthcare practitioners of the dangers associated with unretrieved device fragments (UDFs) unintentionally left behind after surgery. The UDF is a fragment of a medical device, for example, a screw, wire, or broken needle.
According to the FDA, over 1,000 adverse event reports have been received by the Centers for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) concerning UDFs, which have included fragments from over 200 different medical devices or instruments. Since 2003, over 72 deaths and 4,675 injuries caused by UDFs have been reported to the CDRH database responsible for tracking adverse events.
McKinsey Quarterly released an interesting study this week under the moniker, “What Consumers Want in Health Care." The central theme of the publication was the large and growing opportunity for a new type of health care “infomediaries†(who traffic in the flow, enhancement, and interconnectivity of information) to have a large and sustained impact in the transformation of our current system to a next-generation system required to meet the health needs of the future.
Children can learn and re-shape their brains faster than anyone else. Not surprisingly, we’ve found that teenagers who train with the Lumosity brain games improve dramatically. There is also increasing support for the idea that training can help address the cognitive symptoms of ADHD.
Dr. Robert Myers describes some activities that can help a child deal with ADHD in his article,5 Simple Concentration Building Techniques for Kids with ADHD:
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Google Health’s unveiling last week and Microsoft’s HealthVault launch last October are important milestones in the evolution of Health 2.0. Both of these heavyweights have the resources and potential to improve the health consumer’s customer experience. I have followed the active (and important) conversations about privacy concerns, HIPAA, and Google Health’s terms of service, which are well represented by Erik Schonfeld’s post on Techcrunch and Larry Dignan’s post on ZDnet. And I read with interest Google’s rapid response offered by Google Senior Product Counsel Mark Yang.
Other names :
Labour, confinement, accouchment.
Types :
May be natural through the vagina, interventional through the vagina (eg: forceps, ventouse), or interventional by Caesarean section. Other rarely used techniques exist.
Investigations :
Ultrasound probes monitor the baby’s heart rate during labour. Monitors may also check the mother’s blood pressure and pulse.
Complications:
Birth is a very natural act, and the traditional method has served womankind well for millions of years, and is still by far the best way to have a baby, but some women have complications that make medical intervention essential. Complications can occur very suddenly and unexpectedly, which makes birth away from a centre where adequate facilities are available risky for both mother and child.
CALPIRG Statement on Senate Passage of Health Care Reform Bill - CALPIRG
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Bacterial infections such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus -- sometimes acquired in medical facilities -- may be responsible for many cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The finding is the result of new research published in a recent edition of the British medical journal The Lancet.
Scientists conducting this latest study discovered high levels of Staph and E. Coli bacteria in young children who had died of SIDS. The researchers focused on autopsy results obtained from 546 SIDS victims. The bacterial infections were found to be considerably more pronounced in those victims whose deaths could not be explained by non-infectious means.
Health care journalists got some bad press last week following the release of a study that showed more often than not they fail to provide the necessary information to make health stories complete, meaningful and tell them in context.
I’m torn. I want to defend journalists who report on this incredibly complex beat and continue ripping on them. So I’ll do a little of both.
The key finding from University of Minnesota Journalism professor Gary Schwitzer’s study published in PLoS Medicine Journal was that “after almost two years and 500 stories, the project has found that journalists usually fail to discuss costs, the quality of the evidence, the existence of alternative options, and the absolute magnitude of potential benefits and harms.â€
