Medical marijuana dispensary to open in District

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A mere two miles from the U.S. Department of Justice, Metropolitan Wellness Center, one of three medical marijuana dispensaries preparing to open in the district within the next few months, will sell dried cannabis, edibles and paraphernalia to …
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MDS Symposium 2013 Update – Day Two, Morning Sessions

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In addition, the U.S. prescribing information for Exjade states that the drug should not be used in patients with high-risk MDS (see related Beacon news). According to Dr. Santini, there is a lively ongoing debate among MDS specialists about …. Dr …
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Seeing through the bionic eye – Gulf times

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Called the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the device recently was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Second Sight, which … “Sam Williams was blind from retinitis pigmentosa, the disease that we are treating,” Mech said. “He had …
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Misdiagnosis can have huge impact on patients

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"I consider myself lucky to be alive," said Brook, now 72, of the 2006 ordeal, which he described at a recent international conference on diagnostic mistakes held in Baltimore. A physician for 40 years, Brook said he was "really … Diagnoses that are …
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