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Medicinal cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can cut down how many drugs people need, research suggests.A new study found that products with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) seemed to be the most effective for pain.At the moment, only specialist hospital doctors can prescribe cannabis-based medicines on the NHS, and only for a few limited conditions such as rare and severe epilepsy, vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy and muscle stiffness caused by multiple sclerosis (MS).

The Australian government said it wanted to crack down on the use of e-cigarettes in an effort to reduce smoking and stamp out vaping in one of the most sweeping tobacco regulatory moves in the country in years.The proposal, announced on Tuesday, would ban all single-use, disposable vapes; stop the importation of nonprescription vapes; require pharmaceutical-like packaging; reduce nicotine concentrations and amounts; and restrict certain flavors, colors and ingredients.

Prescriptions for stimulants often used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder surged during the pandemic, especially among adults, a new study found.The finding comes as one common ADHD treatment, Adderall, has been in shortage for months, in part because of high demand.Diagnoses for ADHD have become more common in recent decades, and prescriptions for stimulant drugs that are most often used to treat the neurodevelopmental disorder have also been on the rise.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.It's a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to a life-saving drug, though the exact impact will not be clear immediately.

Narcan, a nasal spray that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, has now received federal approval to be sold over the counter.By late summer, it should be widely available not just on pharmacy shelves but also at convenience stores, big box chains and possibly through online retailers.If used in time, Narcan, a version of the drug naloxone, which blocks the opioid's effect on the brain, can be a lifesaver for someone taking opioids, including oxycodone, heroin or fentanyl.

Deshawn Hendricks, 26, wants to check his drugs for the powerful opioid fentanyl when he can, because as a crack user, he worries it could cause a life-threatening overdose.Matthew Todd, 32, tests for another reason: As an opioid user, he has come to depend on the quick and intense high fentanyl provides, and wants to make sure what he purchased is real.

Australian Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler addresses the media at Parliament House on March 30 in Canberra, Australia.Martin Ollman/Getty Images Australia's government will crack down on recreational vape sales and enforce a requirement that products such as e-cigarettes be sold only in pharmacies with a prescription.

In October 2022, the FDA announced an Adderall shortage.While the exact extent of the shortage is unclear, it is having an impact across the nation.A large part of the reason for the deficit of this popular ADHD drug was a massive surge in prescriptions in the past three years - from 35.5 million to 45 million between 2019 and 2022.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules that will require patients to have an in-person medical evaluation before being prescribed most prescription medications by their doctors, with limited exceptions, according to a statement released on Friday.Under the new rule proposals from the Drug Enforcement Agency, patients would still be able to get less-addictive medications, such as antibiotics or birth control, prescribed to them by their doctors via telehealth.

Two major pharmacy chains will apply to sell abortion pills under a new Food and Drug Administration regulation that will allow the medication to be offered by retail pharmacies for the first time.The chains, CVS and Walgreens, said they planned to seek certification to sell the pill, mifepristone, the first pill used in the two-drug medication abortion regimen.

Until this year, patients seeking abortion pills had to undergo a labyrinthine process to access the medication - but thanks to a Food and Drug Administration position reversal, it'll soon become much easier.In a statement, the FDA outlined its new rules regarding Mifeprex (generic name Mifepristone), the 200 mg tablets that can end a pregnancy of up to 10 weeks, which is two weeks before the end of the first trimester of a pregnancy.

Health NPR's A Martinez talks to pediatrician and addiction specialist Scott Hadland about the FDA's decision.The nasal spray could be on store shelves and ready to buy without a prescription by late summer Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Health The FDA approved Narcan for sale without a prescription.The opioid overdose reversal drug would be available at pharmacies and convenience stores nationally, increasing access as opioid deaths climb.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

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The mental health startup says it exposed patient names, birth dates, insurance information, and their responses to mental health self-evaluations.Cerebral, a telehealth startup specializing in mental health, says it inadvertently shared the sensitive information of over 3.1 million patients with Google, Meta, TikTok, and other third-party advertisers, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.

Some of JWST's coolest discoveries so far have happened thanks to gravitational lensing, and now a massive galaxy cluster is about to shed some light on the phenomenon itself.Galaxy cluster RX J2129 is about 3.2 billion light years away, and it's so enormous that its mass actually distorts the shape of spacetime, creating a curve that bends light around the cluster.

I'm the guy with no shirt who rocks, announced Iggy Pop ahead of this, his 19th solo album.It's this perception of the Stooges founder and Godfather of punk that's most cemented in the public consciousness.In recent years, though, the now 75-year-old singer has seemed on a mission to do anything but rock with his shirt off: he turned unlikely jazz crooner for 2009's Preliminaires, sang Edith Piaf and Beatles covers in French on 2012's Apres and echoed his superlative 1970s David Bowie collaborations on 2016's Josh Homme-helmed Post Pop Depression.

Last summer, US President Joe Biden criticized states attempting to restrict access to abortion pills.In response, Biden directed the Food and Drug Administration to protect access, saying that "extremist governors and state legislatures" that were "looking to block the mail or search a person's medicine cabinet or control a woman's actions by tracking data on her apps she uses" were "wrong" and "out-of-touch" with "the majority of Americans."

The Yankees entered the offseason with uncertainty abound at several positions.The bullpen, however, aroused no such worry and figured to be at the bottom of the Yankees' list of concerns.The group remained largely intact from the season prior with the coaching staff demonstrating an aptitude for reinforcing those ranks with impact arms from within, justifying the unit's projection as one of the best relief corps in the sport for another year running.

Two police officers who shot and killed a bb-gun wielding man in Brooklyn fifteen months ago will not face criminal charges, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday.The two patrol officers in question, Theresa Haley and Matthew Mellas, shot 65-year-old Brian Astarita dead following a high-speed chase on the Belt Parkway in Bath Beach in November of 2021, after believing that a bb-gun he was brandishing was a real firearm.

Jeff Hughes | January 11th, 2023
The Chicago Bears can improve at just about every position on the field, as Data acutely discussed yesterday.They likely need a new center, additional corner, off-ball linebacker help, etc.But to be a consistent playoff team, you need the essentials, and the Bears are seriously lacking in those departments.

AUSTIN, Texas Austinites will now have more access to medical marijuana.Medical marijuana operator "goodblend" will open its first dispensary location in Texas.Headquartered in Austin, goodblend creates marijuana products cultivated and produced in the Lone Star State.Since 2015, the operator has provided the widest selection of medical-grade marijuana products throughout Texas and is one of at least three licensed dispensing businesses in the State.

A few weeks after Republican attorneys general in 21 states sent letters threatening legal action against retail pharmacy chains if they dispensed the abortion pill mifepristone, Walgreens said it would not distribute the pill in those states.In January, after the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow retail pharmacies to become certified to dispense mifepristone the tightly regulated medication that is the first pill in the two-drug medication abortion regimen Walgreens, CVS and other pharmacies said they planned to do so in states where abortion was legal.

L ondon City Airport has revealed that it is scrapping the 100ml liquid rule for baggage, starting from the end of March just in time for the Easter holidays.Instead, it will use computerised tomography (CT) imaging to take 3D, high-resolution images of luggage, which staff can then study from every angle to see what's inside.

L ondon City Airport has revealed that it is scrapping the 100ml liquid rule for baggage, starting from the end of March just in time for the Easter holidays.Instead, it will use computerised tomography (CT) imaging to take 3D, high-resolution images of luggage, which staff can then study from every angle to see what's inside.

Republican attorneys general from 20 states wrote letters to executives at CVS and Walgreens warning the pharmacy chains against using the mail to dispense abortion pills in their states, in a shot against a new Biden administration policy.The letters rebuke recent guidance from the Justice Department issued in an opinion from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel that concluded the federal law did not prohibit the mailing of abortion pills.

The Portland Thorns have fired their athletic trainer after an outside investigation found he illegally distributed a controlled substance to players, the National Women's Soccer League said Tuesday.The NWSL, beset in recent years by abuse and misconduct allegations, announced that the trainer, Pierre Soubrier, was fired along with Thorns assistant coach Sophie Clough.

The Portland Thorns fired their head athletic trainer and an assistant coach on Tuesday after a National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) investigation found that both staff members engaged in inappropriate conduct last year.Pierre Soubrier, the head athletic trainer, was investigated for providing medication containing codeine to players during the club's playoff semifinal match against the San Diego Wave.

The husband of U.S. women's team defender Crystal Dunn illegally distributed a controlled substance to Portland Thorns players in his role as the team's athletic trainer, the National Women's Soccer League announced following an outside investigation.The trainer, Pierre Soubrier, was fired Tuesday along with Thorns assistant coach Sophie Clough.

The mother of a baby who died in hospital just 23 minutes after being born has said she was failed in the most cruel way by an NHS Trust.Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust put Wynter Andrews and her mother Sarah Andrews at significant risk of avoidable harm, a court heard on Wednesday.Ryan Donoghue, prosecuting, said the trust was understaffed and failing to ensure staff at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham were aware of its own guidelines, culminating in Wynter's death on 15 September 2019.