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Studies: Intense treatment doesn't help diabetics (AP)
AP - Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.
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Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP)

Traders work in the newly renovated section of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street stocks are set to build on nearly year-and-a-half highs as they face next week's key economic reports and the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.



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Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes (AP)
AP - Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.
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Women on the pill may live longer (AP)

Contraceptive pills are seen at news conference in Tokyo August 26, 1999. REUTERS/Kimimasa MayamaAP - Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.



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Court says thimerosal did not cause autism (AP)
AP - The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.
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Experts say even Obama getting too many med tests (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama returns to the White House from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., following a medical exam in Washington. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — even President Obama — are being overtreated. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system.



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2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the Overweight (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Hopes that two available drugs could help prevent diabetes and the problems it causes in overweight people with poor sugar metabolism have been dashed by a major international study.
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As You Age, Better Health Means Better Sex (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Better health translates into better sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex (and good sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new research finds.
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Clinical Trials Update: March 15, 2010 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:
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Health Tip: Buying Baby's Car Seat (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Car safety seats, like the infants and children they protect, come in lots of different shapes and sizes.
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Driving With Early Alzheimer's May Be Ill-Advised (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people with failing memories often keep driving, but a study of Alzheimer's patients suggests the risk of getting lost -- even on familiar streets -- may be greater than once thought.
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Papaya Could Be a Cancer Fighter (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- An extract from dried papaya slows the growth of cancer cells in the laboratory, researchers report.
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Adding Garlic Might Cut Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of urine test shows that eating plenty of garlic may lower levels of a cancer-causing process within the body.
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Repeated Anesthesia May Hamper Children's Learning Ability (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Brain stem cell loss is the reason why repeated anesthesia causes memory and learning problems in children, Swedish researchers suggest.
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S.Africa announces plans to ramp up HIV testing (AFP)

A man takes an HIV test on World Aids day in Pretoria in 2009. The South African government has announced a ramped up AIDS plan that aims to test 15 million residents for HIV in the world's worst affected country by next June.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - The South African government on Thursday announced a ramped up AIDS plan that aims to test 15 million residents for HIV in the world's worst affected country by next June.



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Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2 Diabetics (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a large U.S. government-sponsored trial find that neither aggressive treatment of cholesterol nor of blood pressure lowers the risk of heart events in people with type 2 diabetes.
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Health Tip: Treating a Sinus Headache (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- A sinus headache usually is caused when the air-filled cavities around your nose, eyes and cheeks become congested and inflamed. Doctors call this condition sinusitis.
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Obesity, Drinking a Double Threat to the Liver (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity plus daily drinking boosts the risk of liver disease in men and women, researchers report in two new studies.

Med-Marijuana
Links

Info Source for Full-THC Cannabis
www.medicalmarihuana.ca/

Institute of Medicine Report- Marijuana
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/marimed/

Health Canada Medical Marijuana Program
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/index_e.html

Pitt U. Alternative Medicine
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/syst.html   

Cannabis Facts
http://www.druglibrary.org/

GLA Info
http://www.healthandage.com/html/res/com/ConsSupplements/GammaLinolenicAcidGLAcs.html

Yale U. Health Info
http://yalenewhavenhealth.org/s_frontpage/index.html

FDA recommends Omega's for Heart Health
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01115.html

Omega Health
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/0,1525,992,00.html 

Mayo Clinic Health Info
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Omega's for Health
http://www.health-heart.org/    

All of us here on the farm are proud of of what we produce on the land. Everything that goes into our Med Marijuana™ packages was made right here- by us.

We aren't some big corporation buyin' ingredients wherever we can get a deal on 'em and stickin' it all together in a fancy bottle and pushin' it with slick ads. We're just simple country people who do what we do well- the way our folks taught us and the way their folks taught them.

We've been farmin' this little piece of paradise for four generations now and we understand this land. We know how to get the goodness out of it and into our produce, which ultimately ends up on your kitchen counter. We know our products work for you and that you like 'em- you tell us every single day of life.

We follow strict organic practices here on the farm- always have, always will. We just never used to call it "organic", though. Back in Grandads' day we just called it farmin' . These days though, in order to help explain that we small dirt farmers aren't a part of the big factory farm gang- who are usin' every toxic and carcenogenic chemical known to man in their fields in the name of efficiency and profit- we say that we are old time natural by callin' it organic these days.

Everything you get inside a Med Marijuana™ package came from right here. It's full of the natural goodness of the Canadian land and it's good for you! You got my word on that...

We like to explain bout our products a bit to any newcomers comin' here to the farm. Just choose one of the product pictures under here, and you'll get the whole story on it.

 
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