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Medical marijuana could save my daughter's life | Margaret Storey
My child doesn't want to get high, she wants to get better. She can't do that while weed remains criminalized in most of the USMy 10-year-old daughter has big blue eyes and is a serious fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. She loves music, fairy tales, and driving under city streetlights at night. She also cannot walk, talk or feed herself, thanks to the uncontrolled seizures that have resisted all attempts at treatment since she was three months old. Every day, she is at risk of SUDEP, or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.Just in the last year, something truly promising has appeared on the horizon for her and other children w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 25, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Margaret Storey Tags: Comment theguardian.com United States Children Health Medical research Drugs Epilepsy Drugs policy Medicine Comment is free Source Type: news

The Great Pot Experiment
Barcott is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, National Geographic and other publications. Scherer is TIME’s Washington bureau chief. Portions of this article were adapted from Barcott’s new book “Weed the People, the Future of Legal Marijuana in America,” from TIME Books, is now available wherever books are sold, including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound. Yasmin Hurd raises rats on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that will blow your mind. Though they look normal, their lives are anything but, and not just because of the pricey real estate they call home on the 10t...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - May 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Megan Gibson Tags: Uncategorized Drugs Source Type: news

Highlights from the literature
Morphine and the baby brain Morphine gets used a lot in neonatal care, especially as we now understand the need to give appropriate analgesia and sedation to babies receiving intensive care. Yet there has always been a nagging concern that though we do the right thing in early life, we may be creating difficulties for these babies in later childhood. We should take some reassurance about this from a paper by Steinhorn (J Pediatr 2015;166:1200–7) in which 230 babies, all under 30 weeks at birth and a quarter of whom received morphine, were followed up at 2 and 7 years. At 2 years the morphine exposed babies demonstrat...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition - June 19, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Tags: Clinical trials (epidemiology), Epidemiologic studies, Cerebral palsy, Epilepsy and seizures, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Child health, Neonatal and paediatric intensive care, Neonatal health, Pain (palliative care) Hyperion Source Type: research