Drug Agents Raid Medical Marijuana Dispensary

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- Drug Agents Raid Medical Marijuana Dispensary
- Girl 11 loses leg playing on train tracks
- Illness complicates Iowa murder case
- Risk factors determined by medical stats
- Manmohan stable comfortable
- World’s highest drug levels entering India stream

Drug Agents Raid Medical Marijuana Dispensary
FXNews 
— Federal agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary at South Lake Tahoe. Five agents from the U. Drug Enforcement Agency were joined by local and federal authorities when they served a search warrant Thursday on Patient to Patient Collective. DEA Special Agent Gordon Taylor says agents seized between five and 10 pounds of processed marijuana and a small amount of U.

Girl 11 loses leg playing on train tracks
Houston Chronicle United States 
John Legg with the Harris County Sheriff’s Department said a group of five children would stand on the tracks wait for trains to pass then grab the side of the train and drag their feet behind them. Legg said the girl slipped and was caught under the train. She was taken by helicopter to the Texas Medical Center. Alex Rodriguez a spokeswoman for Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said Saturday the girl was in critical condition. Rodriguez said she was authorized only to provide a condition report and could not say if surgeons were attempting to reattach the severed left leg. Neighbors used a belt and extension cord as tourniquets until paramedics arrived. Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza-Williams told the Houston Chronicle the two-man crew in the train locomotive never saw the girl and wasn’t aware of the accident until sheriff’s deputies contacted the railroad.
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Illness complicates Iowa murder case
The Associated Press 
But what seems like a simple case has been complicated and is nowhere near completion because the 53-year-old woman apparently suffers from Huntington’s disease a progressive genetic disease that degenerates brain cells. That has led the court to question her mental competency. A judge has ordered a competency evaluation and threatened to obtain medical samples by “nonconsensual means” if lson doesn’t cooperate. lson of Sarasota Fla. faces charges of first-degree murder and willful injury in the killing of Mauricio Droguett her husband of about 20 years. “I gave up my Country my relatives my friends for him 25 years ago. I will give up the rest of my life for Him now” she wrote to District Court Judge James E.

Risk factors determined by medical stats
Chicago Tribune United States 
50 on the turkey but only 25 cents on the gum. A group of physicians at Dartmouth Medical School think you should be just as smart when it comes to buying medical claims. Taking time to understand the often-confusing statistics used in the medical industry they say is key to making smarter decisions about your individual health care. “To know what a discount means you have to know the regular price” said Dr. “The same is true in health care.

Manmohan stable comfortable
Hindu India 
He spent an uneventful night following the surgery. Singh is fully conscious and breathing on his own after doctors removed the ventilator his personal physician K. Srinath Reddy told journalists here on Sunday.

World’s highest drug levels entering India stream
The Associated Press 
Those Indian factories produce drugs for much of the world including many Americans. The result: Some of India’s poor are unwittingly consuming an array of chemicals that may be harmful and could lead to the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria. “If you take a bath there then you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment” said chemist Klaus Kuemmerer at the University of Freiburg Medical Center in Germany an expert on drug resistance in the environment who did not participate in the research. “If you just swallow a few gasps of water you’re treated for everything. The question is for how long?”Last year The Associated Press reported that trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals had been found in drinking water provided to at least 46 million Americans. But the wastewater downstream from the Indian plants contained 150 times the highest levels detected in the U.

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