LA closes loophole for medical marijuana dispensaries
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- LA closes loophole for medical marijuana dispensaries
- 3 dead after construction accident in Austin
- Medical group calls for reducing use of BPA
- Study suggests drug is safe for morning sickness
- ZymoGenetics names Ramos new chief medical officer
- Sex-based Discrimination in Medical Trials Needs to End
- Acute Computer-Related Injuries on the Rise Nearly 79000 needed …
LA closes loophole for medical marijuana dispensaries
Los Angeles Times
Collective is one of five medical marijuana stores on Glendale Boulevard that filed for hardship exemptions with the City Council. More than 600 such outlets are currently operating in Los Angeles. closes loophole for medical marijuana dispensaries.
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3 dead after construction accident in Austin
Houston Chronicle
The identities of the four men who appeared to be Hispanic and were aged 28 30 and 40 were not released. The men were performing construction work about halfway up a condominium project known as Twenty ne Rio a high-rise building near the University of Texas at Austin. Warren Hassinger spokesman for Austin Travis County Emergency Medical Services said the men died from “crushing traumatic injury. “It was a long fall” Hassinger said. Hassinger said the investigators from the Austin Police Department and the federal ccupational Safety and Health Administration were trying to determine what caused the construction elevator to collapse. “This will be thoroughly investigated from what I’ve seen and heard” Hassinger said.
Medical group calls for reducing use of BPA
USA Today
There is strong evidence that chemicals that interfere with the hormone system can cause serious health problems according to a scientific report from the Endocrine Society now meeting in Washington D. Although scientists still have many questions about the chemicals the report says that it’s important for people to take a “precautionary approach” by reducing their exposures.
Study suggests drug is safe for morning sickness
The Associated Press
The study looked back at nearly 82000 births in Israel where metoclopramide is commonly used. It found no difference in birth defects or other problems in newborns of women whether or not they took the drug sold as Reglan and in generic form. “I think that women will be comforted by this” said Dr. Keith Eddleman director of obstetrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. “Most women are reluctant (to take anti-nausea medicine) just because of the stories they’ve heard and the perception that taking something in the first trimester can cause harm. “Results of the study which did not look at the drug’s effectiveness were reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. Morning sickness can be more than unpleasant.
ZymoGenetics names Ramos new chief medical officer
Bizjournals.com
Eleanor Ramos its new senior vice president and chief medical officer replacing Dr. Nicole netto who stepped down earlier this month. Ramos joined ZymoGenetics in 2007 and last year became vice president clinical development. netto’s departure came several weeks after the Seattle-based company (NASDAQ: ZGEN) said it would eliminate 161 jobs or about 32 percent of its work force. At the time ZymoGenetics also said it would discontinue its oncology research.
Sex-based Discrimination in Medical Trials Needs to End
U.S. News & World Report
Bernadine Healy ran the National Institutes of Health under the first President Bush she instituted the first long-term study of how men’s bodies and women’s bodies react differently to treatments for all diseases called the Women’s Health Initiative. We owe much of what we know today about how men and women need different doses or altogether different drugs to battle the same diseases or respond differently to similar types of surgery due to her work. But her work began almost two-and-a-half decades ago and it’s unconscionable that. The studies included more than one million participants in all.
Acute Computer-Related Injuries on the Rise Nearly 79000 needed …
Modern Medicine
Douglas of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus hio and colleagues analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database on acute computer-related injuries treated in emergency departments from 1994 through 2006. The researchers found that during this time nearly 79000 individuals were treated for such injuries. Children under 5 years of age had the highest overall injury rates.
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