Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MORE
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Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays
Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MOREWhy Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Still Have No Meds
by Zenon Evans. Good Intentions made a big splash
last year when it opened its doors as the first medical marijuana
clinic in not just Chicago but the entire state of Illinois. The
business launched just days after Gov. Pat Quinn signed the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. One
problem:
There was no medical marijuana. ... MOREMark Strauss: How To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses
Just ask states with legalized medical marijuana. As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual ... MOREMedical Marijuana Research Hits Wall of U.S. Law
by Serge F. Kovaleski. More evidence the government is not us. Nearly four years ago, Dr. Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist at the University of Arizona, sought federal approval to study marijuana’s effectiveness in treating military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. She had no idea how difficult it would be. The proposal, which has the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Healthy Profits?
More damage to the medical profession. I'm the underachiever in my family. My parents also produced Harvard Medical School research director Thomas Stossel. Mom called him the one who had "a real job." For years, my brother annoyed me by not embracing the libertarianism that changed my life. It bored him. He was comfortable in his Harvard ... MOREWorld Health Organization Calls For Drug Decriminalization
UN argues against its own policy. JAMAICA, Uruguay, Colorado, Washington—more and more places are rebelling against the UN conventions that established the criminalisation of narcotics half a century ago. But the latest organisation to weigh in against the UN’s line is rather surprising. It is a branch of the UN itself. A report just ... MOREOnly 18 Confirmed US Flu Deaths In 2001. What?!
by Jon Rappoport. What happened to the "36,000 die from flu every year" bit. It’s always interesting when official agencies’ statistics come back to bite them. Hard. In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal (BMJ online) published a shocking report by Peter Dosh, which created tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease ... MOREPowerful New Painkiller Gives Drug Warriors A Headache
by Tom Wilemon. Government's noble war to free you from pain relief. A powerful new pain medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that easily can be manipulated by abusers has officials in Tennessee and other states worried. Called
Zohydro, it’s an extended-release form of hydrocodone that comes in a
capsule ... MOREFeds Ignore Both States Rights And Medical Evidence
by Shane Trejo. Raids in legal weed states display contempt for the people's will. Major developments are taking place in the medical marijuana community
that are opening eyes everywhere, much to the chagrin of the feds. A number of testimonials continue to emerge that indicate the tremendous healing power of marijuana rich in CBD, ... MOREEmployers Prepare To Dump Workers Into ObamaCare
by Ed Morrissey. Who didn’t see this coming? According to Kaiser Health News, employers are increasingly looking at the benefits of getting out of the health-insurance delivery process. Fueling this interest are ObamaCare-related spikes in health-insurance premiums, plus the opportunity to fix costs and reduce vulnerabilities presented ... MORE
Ten Pot Studies Government Wished It Hadn't Funded
Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. ... MORELisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana
Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy. Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago, ... MOREJohn Stossel: Bullies Rule
We're told government protects us, but protectors quickly become bullies. Take the Food and Drug Administration. It seems like the most helpful part of government: It supervises testing to make sure greedy drug companies don't sell us dangerous stuff. The FDA's first big success was stopping thalidomide, a drug that prevented the ... MOREFamilies Move To Secure Medical Marijuana For Kids
by Lisa Bernard-Kuhn. Moving to Colorado. The Bentons will move as soon as Addyson comes off the waiting list, which they hope will be October – leaving behind the home in Liberty Township, Ohio, that they built less than a year ago and the friends and family who have supported them. "It's so sad to know that Addyson won't be able to see ... MOREMarijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics
by Ariana Eunjung Cha. Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the ... MOREAlex Greig: Six Year Old Dies From Medical Pot Prohibition
Another victim of the drug war. A little girl has died just days after a Utah bill, HB104, was named Charlee's Law in her honor. Six-year-old Charlee Nelson died on Saturday after battling a debilitating neurological disorder called Batten disease. On Thursday, the Utah Legislature passed a law named for Charlee that allows children ... MORE
How Kids Are Bringing Medical Marijuana to the States
by Emma Roller. In conservative states like Alabama, Georgia, and Utah—where medical-marijuana bills would have sputtered and died on the floor ten years ago—legislatures are now passing pot measures with nearly unanimous support. What gives? "When you couldn't get bills introduced for a decade, and now they're passing like they're on ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)
Death by government. If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a ... MORE
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