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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. CBD & Parkinson’s Disease 2. Young Cancer Patient Planned His Own Funeral 3.The Reason You Get Runner’s High
Project CBD: CBD and Parkinson’s Disease The endocannabinoid system and digestive imbalance play major roles in Parkinson’s disease. Research on CBD, THC, and THCV has demonstrated that cannabis medicine may help to manage PD symptoms. Highlights: The endocannabinoid system plays a major role in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). PD is associated with impairment of motor control after…
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The Safe Vaccination Debate – Evidence Suppression and Compromised Evidence 1. Judy Wilyman Report 2. Critical Literature Review 3. Censorship at NIH
1. The Judy Wilyman Report – To the UOW Executive-Dean of the Faculty Science, Medicine and Health Copied to UOW Vice-Chancellor, Paul Welings 15 March 2017 Dear Professor Alison Jones, Here is a copy of my latest newsletter describing how medical professionals are providing false information on vaccine safety to the public: Newsletter 151 Dr.…
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Benzodiazepines For Patients on Opiate Maintenance Treatment
Bakker A, Streel E. Benzodiazepine maintenance in opiate substitution treatment: Good or bad? A retrospective primary care case-note review. Journal of Psychopharmacology 2016 1-5 Dear Colleagues, Finally we have some strong evidence that prescribing benzodiazepines for patients on opiate maintenance treatment is not only safe and effective but in some cases may be obligatory, under…
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Cell types like astrocytes regulate metabolic processes – Discovery of a brain sugar switch
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) discovered that our brain actively takes sugar from the blood. Prior to this, researchers around the world had assumed that this was a purely passive process. An international team led by diabetes expert Matthias Tschöp reported in the journal ‘Cell’ that transportation of sugar into the brain…
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Avatars May Take Over Patient Communications – Where to from there?
Global Pharma’s are known to be funding the development of systems to deal directly with patients. These systems will involve the use of Artificial Intelligence and the use of Volumetric 3D immersion technologies. The former will allow delivery of technical information through well modulated voice transmission, while the latter will provide an “avatar” transformed from…
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Australian Research Illustrates a Reason for Irrational Skeptic Behaviour
In last week’s edition some of our staff writers put together an article that featured Australian research on Asperger’s syndrome and the behaviours associated with that condition. That article was titled “People with high autistic tendencies see the world very differently, and a Swinburne magazine summary of their research is found here: What started out…
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People with high autistic tendencies see the world very differently
I once viewed an ABC health program where an eminent psychologist was commenting on different levels of the autistic spectrum. In particular, she referred to people who had Asperger’s Syndrome and how they all seemed to have high IQ’s and an obsession with specific detail. Her punch line was that many of these people had…
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Type 2 diabetes reversed by losing fat from pancreas
A UK research team based at Newcastle University has made a breakthrough discovery – Type 2 diabetes is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas, and that losing less than one gram of fat through weight loss reverses the diabetes, researchers have shown. This will obviously trigger research into drugs that can influence the amount of…
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Big Names; Big Mistakes Consumers Misled by Supplement Bashing
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 30, 2015 Big names: the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world. Plus, the New York Times. On October 14th, the latter mentioned: “Dietary Supplements Lead to 20,000 E.R. Visits Yearly, Study Finds.” It was a report of a study published in the NEJM with…
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Medical Marijuana and its Positive Possibilities for Pharmacy
The case for legalising marijuana for medical purposes has been tested – and has been won (Victoria has set in motion the regulatory arrangements for this to happen in their state-others will follow). Now it’s the turn of the regulators who have the problem of separating legal use from illegal use. As more research is…