Year: 2017

Suicide risk can be hard to measure. But a brain’s reaction to words like ‘carefree’ may offer clues. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Suicide risk can be hard to measure. But a brain’s reaction to words like ‘carefree’ may offer clues.Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWhen a person’s distress, depression or discouragement appears to have taken a sharp turn for the worse, it’s time to ask him or her a weighty question: Are you thinking of harming yourself? If only … Read more

Pennsylvania Starts Signing up Medical Marijuana Patients – U.S. News & World Report

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0000000000000 U.S. News & World Report Pennsylvania Starts Signing up Medical Marijuana PatientsU.S. News & World ReportPennsylvanians are closer to being able to get marijuana to help treat their medical conditions as the state is launching its patient and caregiver registry. Nov. 1, 2017, at 1:56 p.m.. Pennsylvania Starts Signing up Medical Marijuana Patients …Lehigh Valley’s … Read more

Eating too much black licorice is harmful, FDA warns – Chicago Sun-Times

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Chicago Sun-Times Eating too much black licorice is harmful, FDA warnsChicago Sun-TimesThe candy, made from a shrub usually found in Greece, Turkey and Asia, contains a compound (glycyrrhizin) that can lower a person’s potassium levels. | STOCK.ADOBE.COM. USA TODAY Network. Do not eat large amounts of black licorice this …Don’t overdose on black licorice, FDA warnsKTVQ … Read more

FDA Warns Companies Against Claims That Marijuana Cures Diseases – New York Times

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New York Times FDA Warns Companies Against Claims That Marijuana Cures DiseasesNew York TimesHemp plants growing in a greenhouse operated by Stanley Brothers, a leading marijuana products company based in Colorado. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times. WASHINGTON — Everyday Advanced Hemp Oil, Bosom Lotion and CBD …Pot Doesn’t Cure Cancer and Stop Saying … Read more

You should not be worried about Sephora giving you herpes – Popular Science

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Popular Science You should not be worried about Sephora giving you herpesPopular ScienceThe internet is all agog over news of a Los Angeles lawsuit: according to court documents, an individual is suing the beauty store Sephora for strict liability, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of …Sephora lipstick sample gave her herpes, … Read more

Michigan won’t pressure medical marijuana dispensaries to close, after all – MLive.com

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MLive.com Michigan won’t pressure medical marijuana dispensaries to close, after allMLive.comLANSING, MI – Less than two months after the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation declared medical marijuana shops open after Dec. 15 could face an impediment to licensure, it reversed its stance. “Through emergency rules, the Bureau and Board will …Michigan reverses stance, will let marijuana … Read more

Henry Miller, corporate prostitute: Endorses GMOs, tobacco, radiation, DDT, glyphosate

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(Natural News) For many years, he was a namesake at Forbes where he published authoritative-sounding articles promoting genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and other biotechnological products. But Henry I. Miller is hardly the esteemed academic that he wishes everyone perceived him as being, at least as far as his corporate conflicts of interest are concerned. You see,… … Read more

A high-fat diet encourages the growth of fungi in the gut, which makes for an unhealthy microbiota and contributes to obesity, study finds

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(Natural News) A study finds that eating a diet high in fat not only gives you extra calories, but also changes the growth of fungi in the gut, which makes for an unhealthy microbiota and contributes to weight gain or obesity, as reported by the Science Daily. Researchers from the University of Minnesota conducted the… … Read more

Why do some viruses linger? Scientists are studying how viruses replicate different kinds of cells, some of which can hide inside the immune system

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(Natural News) Some viral infections can continue their existence even though the body that they are trying to penetrate has already triggered an immune response. University of Pennsylvania researchers reveal that acute viral infection cells enriched with defective viral genomes are more likely to survive infection than cells with full-length viral genomes. Viral infections, such… … Read more