Does smoking marijuana help ease the pain in crohn's disease?

March 15, 2011

I want to know if medical marijuana helps with the symptoms of Crohn's Disease such as intestinal pain due to obsturction, bloating, flagulence, and etc. I also would like to know if it helps with physical symptoms like arthritis pains and scoliosis. My best friend has crohns and marijuana help her pain,Medical marijuana has been [...]

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Before they treat you, medical students rehearse with actors as patients

March 15, 2011

Medical student Mariah Pate works with actor-patient Christine Murdock. Let?s just get this out of the way up front. Christine Murdock isn?t channeling Cosmo Kramer and the medical students aren?t standing around playing ?guess the disease.? If they did, they would lose points with their instructors. Murdock, an actor, is a standardized patient. She?s paid [...]

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Evolutionary Psychiatry: Sleep, Behavior, Hyperactivity and Attention in Children

March 15, 2011

If you ask the experts, they will tell you that approximately 9% of children in the US have the cluster of symptoms defined as ADHD.  5-16% of kids will have what is called “Oppositional Defiant Disorder,” where kids deliberately break the rules, are quick to anger, and will often be sensitive and vindictive, among other [...]

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Scalp Allergy

March 15, 2011

What could be causing my husbands scalp pain and shooting pains in his ear? It started with sudden allergy or sinus then quickly developed into an earache and he can’t even brush his hair without it hurting. Can this all be connected to his sinus? sounds like a sinus infection Sinus symptoms are very common [...]

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What causes a neurogenic bladder and then other neuro.symptoms in a woman in her late 30's?

March 15, 2011

I am having my third implant put into my back to stimulate the area around my bladder to have the urge to urinate on my own, instead of using catheters all the time. I am also having strange weakness in my hands, legs, plus many memory issues. I fall and lose my balance all the [...]

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So I am 36 and am having symptoms of perimenopause, except all my blood test have come back normal,what is up?

March 15, 2011

have had my thyroid tested, normal, am having hot flashes, panic attacks, anxiety, insomnia, dry skin. my mother and grandmother where done with menopause at 40. any answers or suggestions are appreciate… Try some evening primrose oil, even my gyn thinks it's good. Found in the vitamin isle. My hormone levels are still high, but [...]

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Can chest pain and vomiting be symptoms of a certain illness?

March 15, 2011

A friend of mine complains of chest pain and vomiting sometimes, usually occuring at work. He is 22 years old and has a pretty good diet. Do these symptoms result from a specific illness or could it be more than one thing happening at once?

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Why do I get fatigue and fever symptoms after kissing / cuddling with my gf?

March 15, 2011

Often, (not every time) a few hours after I kiss my gf I get fever like symptoms such as muscle soreness and fatigue. These symptoms last for a night and dissapear in the morning and never show up again unless we kiss again. my gf doesn't have any symptoms and is in good health, this [...]

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5 Months after Getting Pregnant, Ulcerative Colitis Symptoms

March 15, 2011

I worked my way through college with a full time job and an apartment in the city. In late 2006, while in graduate school and teaching in the inner city, I started having stomach pains with mucousy stool and went to the doctor. he said I was constipated and told me to begin a high [...]

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NPS Pharmaceuticals Completes Patient Randomization in Phase 3 REPLACE Study of NPSP558 in Hypoparathyroidism – News Press Release

March 15, 2011

NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPSP) a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for rare gastrointestinal and endocrine disorders, today announced the randomization of the last patient in REPLACE, its Phase 3 registration study of NPSP558, a bioengineered form of human parathyroid hormone. REPLACE is a double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluating the use of NPSP558 as hormone [...]

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