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Operators go to court to protect injection site
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
With just two months to go before its doors may be closed by the Conservative government, operators of North America's only supervised injection site for users of illegal drugs have gone to court to stay open. The facility saves lives, reduces harm to drug addicts and increases their motivation to seek treatment, lawyers argued in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday. As a result, they said, federal drug laws against possession of heroin and cocaine should not apply there. "The criminal approach leads to death. Harm reduction leads to life," said John Conroy, representing the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
John Cleese visits Laughing Club in India - Boing Boing
Posted by hnouwens from BoingBoing
Actor John Cleese went to India to visit a doctor who has started a laughing club. The people meet each morning and do silly things to make each other laugh. Laughter has many health benefits, says the doctor.
Medical marijuana patients denied a spot on transplant list
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
When dying patients need a transplant, should it be held against them if they've used dope with a doctor's blessing? "Most transplant centers struggle with issues of how to deal with people who are known to use marijuana, whether or not it's with a doctor's prescription," said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical University of South Carolina. "Marijuana, unlike alcohol, has no direct effect on the liver. It is however a concern ... in that it's a potential indicator of an addictive personality."
The world’s food insecurity
Posted by Shemuses from Open Democracy
The severity of today's world food crisis resembles that of the early 1970s. But the role of the financial sector and of global climate change are key differences, says Paul Rogers. The food crisis is now affecting many countries across the world. Millions of people in dozens of countries are unable to afford the food they need, and malnutrition is on the rise. From Egypt to Indonesia, Haiti to Thailand, and across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, increasingly vociferous public protests over food prices or shortages have exploded; some governments even fear for their survival.
Breast cancer's booze connection
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
Yet that one glass of wine - the pleasure of it, the taste of it and, most of all, the beloved ritual of it - is now under siege. The release last week of startling research on the link between drinking alcohol and getting breast cancer has sparked new fears in many women. According to the study conducted by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, the headlines blared, women who consumed less than one drink a day had a 7-per-cent increase in their risk of developing certain very common estrogen-fuelled breast cancers. Related Articles From the archives * Alcohol may boost breast cancer risk The Globe and Mail Take one or two drinks a day and your chances of getting these tumours increase 32 per cent, and three or more drinks boosts your risk 51 per cent.
Race and the white coat
Posted by Kristy from Salon
Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?
Mayor rules out Cherbourg contraceptive implants
Posted by theangryindian from ABC Australia
The Cherbourg Aboriginal Council has met the town s health service providers to confirm no young girls are receiving contraceptive implants. Last week, reports emerged that girls as young as 12, some with disabilities, were being given contraceptive implants in the Indigenous community of Woorabinda west of Rockhampton.
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