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Illinois Senate approves marijuana for medical uses
ReutersSPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois Senate on Friday voted to approve the use of marijuana for medical purposes, which if signed into law would make it the second-most-populous state in the nation after California to allow the drug's use for...Tags: Prescription Drugs, OxyContin (drug), Illinois General Assembly, Barack Obama, Government
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Misdiagnosis: More Common Than Drug Errors or Wrong-Site Surgery
The Hartford CourantUntil it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...Tags: Internists, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Procedures and Tests, Research, MRI (imaging)
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Plantation doctor aims to help abused women in India
Little girls as young as 4 attacked, brutalized, even killed. A female college student gangraped on a moving bus. Women of all ages ravaged and disfigured by relatives and strangers alike. In India, women have increasingly become targets of unbridled...
Tags: India, Hospitals and Clinics, Cosmetic Procedures, Medical Procedures and Tests, Plastic Surgeons
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Maryland has de facto abortion on demand
I read with interest Del. Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg's critique of Marta Mossburg's interpretation of abortion law ("Mossburg wrong on Md. abortion law," May 9). Though the lawyer-politician has great knowledge and experience in many areas of Maryland...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Criminal Laws, LeRoy Carhart, Laws, Abortion
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Voice of the People, May. 18
Mental-health medicines This is in response to "Psychologists seek prescription power; Health professionals split over contentious bill now up to House" (News, May 12) and "Rx: Slow down; Psychologists and mental health medicines" (Editorial, May 13)....Tags: Psychology, Internists, Colleges and Universities, Behavioral Conditions, Human Accomplishments
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Andy Harris to deliver Republican address on Obamacare
The Baltimore SunDays after voting again to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, congressional Republicans have tapped Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland to deliver their weekly address. “As a physician for nearly thirty years who helped mothers...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Politics, Steny Hoyer, Andrew P Harris
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Food poisoning
The free egg salad sandwiches served at the farm auction on the north edge of Aurora in eastern South Dakota about 1922 was the culprit, ushering in ptomaine poisoning. Then there was the infamous Ed Ziebarth sale near Elkton in February 1931. At that...Tags: First Aid, Coffee, Farms, Sandwiches, Lifestyle and Leisure
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John David Dyche: Medicaid expansion: evidence and alternatives
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s decision to expand Medicaid came mere days after the most significant study of the issue concluded that extending Medicaid coverage to the previously uninsured “generated no significant improvements in...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Lifestyle and Leisure, Health Insurance
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Penn State issues statement refuting forthcoming Sports Illustrated story
Nittany LinesPenn State released a statement Tuesday night refuting a Sports Illustrated story about the football team's medical operations. The story, which will be on newsstands Wednesday, is promoted on the cover with the headline, "Do Athletics Still Have Too... -
Saying no to surgery
Thom McDaniels is no stranger to surgery. As a longtime athlete and high school football coach, he's spent years putting his knees through the wringer. After injuring his right knee again during football practice, he was told by an orthopedic surgeon that...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Pathology, Internists, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance
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Health professionals split over allowing psychologists to prescribe drugs
Week in and week out for the last five years, Marlin Hoover has boarded a plane for New Mexico, where he sees patients Monday through Wednesday. Then, the psychologist flies home Thursday to treat patients at his southwest suburban office in Tinley Park....
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Illinois General Assembly, Behavioral Conditions, Springfield, Psychiatry
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: U.S. Air Force, American Civil Liberties Union, Colleges and Universities, Feminism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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