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The Marijuana Military: Is weed the answer for PTSD?
Prescription drugs not working
Veterans coming back home from war have been prescribed a cocktail of prescription drugs to treat their PTSD. Many, unfortunately, have found prescription treatment to be unsuccessful. Of those veterans, some have taken their ...
What causes SIDS? An American doctor thinks he found the answer
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexplained death, usually during sleep, of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old. SIDS is sometimes known as crib death because the infants often die in their cribs (source: Mayo Clinic).One study showe...
New Dietary Guidelines Ask Americans to Start Thinking of the Environment
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has issued its latest recommendations, with some coming as a surprise to many consumers. For the first time the committee is urging Americans to consider "the impact of food production, processing, and consumption ...
Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
New WHO Regional Director For Africa Plans To Terminate Ebola
The Ebola epidemic in 2014 represents the largest outbreak of the deadly disease in the recorded history of mankind. The devastating illness has killed more than 10,000 people and affected more than 22,000.While the virus sprinted through West African ...
Apple’s New App Makes Health Technological
Apple technology is moving into the health system, and U.S. hospitals are welcoming it with open arms.Apple Inc.’s HealthKit service is making its name in major hospitals, allowing doctors to monitor patients from a distance and at a lower cost. The re...
Pharmaceutical Companies Price Discriminate H.I.V. Drugs
Harvard researchers published a new study which found that many drugs used to treat H.I.V. are being set at unfairly high prices. The study examined health care plans in 12 states and found that the drugs were being priced using a system of “adverse tierin...
Taboo Medicine: Ayahuasca
The connection between the mind and body is as unbreakable as it is complex. Human beings are unique organisms, leaving health professionals with the never-ending task of uncovering different remedies for disease. Despite all that remains undiscovered, pol...
Facebook Knows You Better Than You Think
Who do you think would buy you a better birthday present - your best friend or your Facebook account? Sure, your best friend has a credit card and opposable thumbs, which you assume puts them in the lead. But chances are their gift would pale in comparison...
Understanding Monsanto: Health Effects
As words like “organic” and “non-GMO” permeate our daily lives, we start to search for their true meaning. Although Monsanto is not the only company that produces genetically modified agriculture, its products and practices are a major focus of public contempt...