by Sue Robbins | Oct 27, 2020 | Children's Pain, Miscellaneous
In a new report on pediatric pain in the British medical journal The Lancet, a commission of experts, including scientists, doctors, psychologists, parents and patients, challenged those who take care of children to end what they described as the common...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 26, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Do you have the heart to safely smoke pot? Maybe not, a growing body of medical reports suggests. Currently, increased smoking of marijuana in public, even in cities like New York where recreational use remains illegal (though no longer prosecuted), has reinforced a...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 21, 2020 | Miscellaneous
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, report that the severity of their symptoms was reduced by about half within four hours of smoking cannabis, according to a Washington State University study. The researchers analyzed data inputted into the Strainprint...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 20, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Vitamins and supplements are more popular today than they have ever been. But are they all that they are cracked up to be? In this edition of Medical Myths, we address a crop of supplement superstitions and mineral misunderstandings. Share on Pinterest The supplement...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 19, 2020 | Miscellaneous
The problem, a brief but precipitous drop in blood pressure that causes lightheadedness or dizziness when standing up, is called orthostatic hypotension. Orthostatic hypotension — to many people those are unfamiliar words for a relatively common but often unrecognized...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 13, 2020 | Miscellaneous
In people with advanced colorectal cancer, drinking coffee was associated with longer survival and less cancer progression. Drinking coffee may extend survival time in people with colorectal cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers studied 1,171 patients diagnosed...
