Morning Rounds A Deadly Polio Vaccine Bed Bugs and Medical Marijuana
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- Morning Rounds A Deadly Polio Vaccine Bed Bugs and Medical Marijuana
- Stem Cells Promising for Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 diabetics more susceptible to dementia
- Report: Medical office bucking real estate trends
- A doctor’s ‘Soul’ is tormented by medical errors
- Medical marijuana law put to the test
Morning Rounds A Deadly Polio Vaccine Bed Bugs and Medical Marijuana
New York Times
While a government lawyer argued the administration does not have to support its claim that marijuana has “no currently accepted medical use” advocates for the use of pot said it eases the pain and anxiety of chronic illness and that the government should stop spreading “false information. ” The advocates represent Americans for Safe Access which is suing the government under a law that bars it from disseminating inaccurate information. Deceased Minnesota Patient Was Infected With Polio From Live VirusMinnesota health officials say a patient with a weakened immune system who died in March was infected with polio from a live virus found in an oral vaccine no longer used in this country.
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Stem Cells Promising for Type 1 Diabetes
WebMD
The latest results from the study appear in the April 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Diabetes specialist David M. Nathan MD who was not involved with the study tells WebMD that the stem cell treatment is promising but he adds that the side effects remain troubling. ?This is a pretty bold intervention that can involve serious complications? he says. ?The hope is that this will lead to more benign treatments that can keep people off insulin.
Type 2 diabetics more susceptible to dementia
USA Today
” In another study in the medical journal Yale University School of Medicine researchers examined whether early screening for cardiovascular disease in adults with type 2 diabetes would affect their cardiovascular health long-term. “Coronary artery disease is a major health concern and the leading cause of death in individuals with type 2 diabetes” said author Frans Wackers senior research scientist in the section of cardiovascular medicine at Yale. The study included 1123 participants with type 2 diabetes. About half were randomly assigned to be screened for heart disease and about half were not screened. The average follow-up was nearly five years.
Report: Medical office bucking real estate trends
Bizjournals.com
Parts of the country have seen underperforming medical office assets but the segment is generally holding up better than other product types the report said. Medical office properties continue to garner investor demand the report said partly because of the positive state of the health care industry.
A doctor’s ‘Soul’ is tormented by medical errors
USA Today
“As one sign of their professionalism these physicians not only learn from their errors but remain haunted by them for the rest of their lives. In this sense some doctors become the ’second victims’ of medical errors” he says in an e-mail. Nuland says he’s not surprised that some doctors cited failures as their most memorable cases. “In modern medicine we don’t fail very much” says the author who stopped seeing patients when he started writing How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter the best seller for which he won the National Book Award in 1994. “So failures tend to be very complex. You discuss them with colleagues trying to figure out what the hell went wrong.
Medical marijuana law put to the test
Detroit Free Press
See instructions for fixing the problem. Medical marijuana law put to the testIn 2 cases lack of ID cards creates complicationsBY MEGHA SATYANARAYANA • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER• April 15 2009.
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