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Medical pot not OK unless for sick kids
A new policy by the American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that medical proof is only okay to be used for severely-ill kids that cannot be treated by other drugs. This is because marijuana may harm developing brains. Some parents […]
Health officials want clarity on e-cigarette issue to tackle it better
Public health officials are “in desperate need of clarity” on electronic cigarettes to help guide policies, the nation’s newly appointed surgeon general said Tuesday. Dr. Vivek Murthy, whose predecessors have been instrumental in guiding tobacco control, addressed the battery-powered devices […]
WHO: Plague grips Madagascar
57 people out of 213 known cases in Madagascar have been killed by a plague caused by a flood which saw the spread of rats, the World Health Organization says. The U.N. agency’s first update since late November, when there […]
High blood pressure probably cause of trouble sleeping
Do you find yourself counting sheep at night? A new study from China explains that trouble falling asleep may be due to high blood pressure. This is the first study to show that certain people with insomnia are at risk […]
A prevention program that lowers teenage suicide risk
A new school-based prevention program in Europe has proven to be successful in lowering the risk of teenage suicide. Danuta Wasserman, a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said the program was likely successful because students “felt […]
Your 30s the right time to worry about your cholesterol
Start worrying about your cholesterol level in your 30s because having high cholesterol during those years may lead to heart diseases later. “What we found is that people with prolonged exposure to high cholesterol levels are at a much higher […]
HBI China 2015 to Promote Sino-foreign Business
The healthcare reform has brought about development opportunities for the Chinese healthcare market, and new challenges for the domesticand international hospital construction industry. TheHospital Build & Infrastructure China (HBI China) Exhibition & Congress that will be held from 23 – 25 May 2015 at Dalian World […]
Check out these diets for seniors
When a panel of health and nutrition experts ranked 35 diets for Best Diets 2015, they considered not only weight loss, but also whether diets were heart healthy, good for controlling diabetes and easy to follow. Now, two panel members discuss which U.S. News-ranked diets […]
Close your eyes to remember better
Some people close their eyes, as though lost in thought, when they’re trying to remember some detail from the past. A new study in Legal and Criminal Psychology suggests that they’re on the right track — study participants who closed their eyes remembered more […]
Egypt convicts doctor of female genital mutilation
A doctor who performed female genital mutilation on a 13-year old girl which led to her death have been sentenced to two years and three months in prison. The doctor, Raslan Fadl, was initially acquitted of the 2013 death of […]
