by Research Team | Dec 11, 2014 | Health News
The Food and Drug Administration has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham permission to study the use of a marijuana derivative to treat seizures. Parents of children with seizure disorders persuaded the Alabama Legislature last year to pass a bill...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Labour is promising to establish a A 330 million cancer treatments fund to improve access to cutting-edge surgery and radiotherapy as well as the latest drugs if it gains power in next year’s general election. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says the fund...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Oregon is planning to transfer an online Medicaid enrollment system from Kentucky after giving up on its own troubled software. Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, kynect, has been applauded as a success story.
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Researchers are reporting what appears to be another adverse effect of the drug tramadol, an opioid that’s being increasingly prescribed by doctors for the treatment of pain. Known possible effects of tramadol, sold in Canada under a number of brand and generic...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
” The Cuban doctors were all fired up and raring to get to work: Fidel Castro had praised their commitment and urged them to work even with American troops who might otherwise be considered the enemy, and President Raul Castro came to the airport to wish them...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Joan Rivers’ left her daughter, Melissa, in charge of her fortune and left money for some of her favorite charities, including Guide Dogs for the Blind, Jewish Guild Healthcare and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. According to Rivers’ 2014 will, which was...
