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Assisted suicide law 'clarified'Guidance is issued to clarify the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales - but it offers no guarantees against prosecution.
BBC Wednesday, September 23, 2009Obama, Ban Ki-Moon Raise Stakes on Climate ChangeU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds a high-level conference on climate
change. U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other world leaders attend
TIME Wednesday, September 23, 2009Inhale or Don't?: Marijuana Hurts Some, Helps OthersClinton didn’t inhale, Obama did--and maybe Reagan should have. New research suggests that THC, the chemical that gives marijuana its mind-bending properties, kills developing neurons, yet oddly, the same chemical saves neurons in adults with Alzheimer’s disease.“Marijuana is not the ‘soft drug’ people like to think it is,” says neuropharmacologist Veronica Campbell of Trinity College in Dublin, whose latest study uncovered the harmful effects of THC on young neurons. When Campbell and her co-workers treated brain cells from newborn or adolescent rats with THC, the neurons died, but THC did not have such deadly effects on neurons taken from adult rats. In fact, work from other labs shows that THC benefits adult neurons. “We don’t know why,” Campbell says. Several possibilities are being investigated for this “Jekyll and Hyde”
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Scientific American Wednesday, September 23, 2009Video: Breaking Bread with Dr. AshtonDr. Jennifer Ashton separates fact from fiction in whole grain, fiber and enriched bread products for consumers to make healthier choices.
CBS News Wednesday, September 23, 2009Video: Ask it Early with Dr. AshtonDr. Jennifer Ashton answered general medical questions from viewers via webcam and Twitter.
CBS News Wednesday, September 23, 2009ACP launches ethics case studies series on MedscapeCME(American College of Physicians) A series of cases with commentaries by the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee and the College's Center for Ethics and Professionalism are now available on MedscapeCME .
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, September 23, 2009Arthritis Foundation of India Trust named winner of 2009 IOF Linda Edwards Memorial Award(International Osteoporosis Foundation) The International Osteoporosis Foundation has awarded its prestigious 'IOF Linda Edwards Memorial Award' to the Arthritis Foundation of India Trust, one of 193 IOF member societies around the world. The award was presented at the IOF Worldwide Osteoporosis Patient Society Conference, being held from Sept. 22-25, 2009 in Beijing, China.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, September 23, 2009Facing Aging Without InsuranceAlso part of the special series, "Are You Covered?" Kaiser Health News and NPR report on Fernando Arriola.
Medical News Today Wednesday, September 23, 2009Brain Blood Flow Affected By Balance OrgansThe organs of the inner ear have a direct
effect on brain
blood flow, independent of blood pressure and CO2 levels in the blood. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used a series of human centrifuge experiments to investigate the effects of stimulation of the otoliths and semi-circular canals on cerebrovascular response. Dr.
Medical News Today Wednesday, September 23, 2009Disease Diagnosis, Toxin Detection And More Are Possible With DNA-Graphene NanostructureBiomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between graphene and DNA, the building block of all living things. To learn more, PNNL's Zhiwen Tang, Yuehe Lin and colleagues from both PNNL and Princeton University built nanostructures of graphene and DNA.
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