Cannabinoids in Medical Practice

Cannabinoids in Medical Practice

Many patients with chronic medical illnesses use cannabinoids. There are two FDA-approved cannabinoid products, whereas medical marijuana purchased at legal dispensaries is not FDA regulated and may contain uncertain concentrations of various compounds. Cannabinoids have shown efficacy in treating chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting, poor appetite in advanced HIV, some pain states, and mul...

Incidence of cannabinoids in medical examiner urine specimens.

Cannabinoid use was studied in a nonspecific population of postmortem urine specimens in the State of Maryland. Of 500 sequential specimens screened for cannabinoids by enzyme multiplied immunoassay EMIT, 63 (13%) were initially positive and 58 (12%) were confirmed positive (92%). It was observed that geographic location and race did not correlate with cannabinoid prevalence. Cannabinoid use wa...

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...

Psychiatry in Medical Practice

the concepts and information it presents. Its great weakness lies in the lack of critical appraisal of the methodology of some of the data quoted. Wide-eyed speculation based on single cases are quoted with as much authority as the data of well-controlled experimental studies. Considering the fact that at least 65 per cent of patients coming to the average physician have disease syndromes initi...