Sentences with phrase «official medical use»

Doing large studies of marijuana's potential as medicine means getting it removed from an official federal list of substances with no official medical use — which requires more proof of its potential as medicine.

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Police and medical officials, though, said that exhaustion from overwork was probably to blame, while a United Nations labor agency pointed to the possibility that chemicals used to treat fabrics could be responsible.

Blockchain will be used as a trusted validator for verifying official credentials by one of the most prominent medical NGOs in the US.

The outages have proved deadly, with people unable to use lifesaving medical equipment like dialysis machines, and they've contributed to Puerto Rico's official death toll of 64.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Do you go with official recommendations from medical organizations, or do you use other information to make the call?

A former official of the New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced from her job for raising questions about the office's use of a novel form of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.

In the trial, prosecutors persuaded the jury that Mr. Skelos and his son had used the father's official position to pressure a Manhattan developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer to provide Adam Skelos with roughly $ 300,000 via consulting work, a no - show job and a direct payment of $ 20,000.

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

The sites, advocates argued, would give individuals struggling with substance abuse a clean environment to use pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical personnel and other officials who could help them obtain treatment for their addictions.

Evidence and recommendations related to e-cigarette use by plastic surgery patients are discussed in a special topic paper in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

The regulation was prompted, federal officials say, by a federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which among other things governs the use of medical records and the protection of patient privacy.

The finding is useful for law enforcement officials and medical examiners seeking to identify the caliber of firearms that have been used to commit murder.

A first - of - its - kind literature review published in the September issue of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists ® (ASA ®), suggests although a majority of studies report positive outcomes, there is currently insufficient evidence to support the clinical use of antidepressants for the treatment of postoperative pain.

Officials urged that Paxil use among children and teenagers be discontinued gradually and only under medical supervision.

Convened in part by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the meeting will bring together academics, government officials, industry experts, and patient advocates to discuss the use of naloxone both in and out of conventional medical settings.

The committee was created after the trial of leading medical officials for allowing HIV - contaminated Factor 8 to be used by haemophiliacs.

A review of recent progress toward developing effective gene therapies for use in «regenerative surgery» appears in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

For years, Chinese officials have come under fire for allegedly allowing the use of organs from executed prisoners for transplants, including for foreigners coming to the country for so - called medical tourism.

For women undergoing breast cancer surgery, a technique called lipofilling — using the patient's own fat cells to optimize the results of breast reconstruction — does not increase the risk of recurrent breast cancer, reports a study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

In official medical terminology, «tendonitis» is the term used to describe a case of inflammation only, while the term «tendinosis» includes the degradation of the collagen fibers within the tendon without the presence of inflammatory cells.

Officials said that the continued intense medical monitoring of tens of thousands of people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus is no longer a smart use of limited resources and is, in fact, contributing to mental health problems among many residents nearly 20 years later.

If you know the ideal person to make medical decisions on your behalf, in case you ever can't, you can use our Montana Power of Attorney document to help make it official.

It can be a catch - 22: if a Canadian crossing the US border lies about legally using marijuana in Canada — even for medical reasons — they can be banned from entering the United States for lying to immigration officials.

For the Department of State, however, the final rule provides a limited exemption that allows a component of the Department of State without an authorization to (1) use protected health information to make medical suitability determinations and (2) to disclose whether or not the individual was determined to be medically suitable to authorized officials in the Department of State for the purpose of a security clearance investigation conducted pursuant to Executive Order 10450 and 12698.

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The supercomputer will use powerful algorithms and analyze data from medical health records, fitness devices, drug prescriptions, and other things to warn health officials of potential problems before it gets to that point.

Google took to its official blog today to announce a new Google [x] project focused (pardon that pun) on using electronics embedded in contact lenses for medical applications.

Google's device is conceivably capable of facial recognition — even if the company itself has banned its use in official apps — meaning people could be capable of matching strangers to their medical histories on the street should information leak.

Using the official job search website for the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development reveals a variety of jobs available for graduates of medical admin assistant programs.

Over the decades, government officials, judges and medical professionals have engaged in unjust practices including forced sterilization of women deemed «unfit» to have children, offers of financial incentives to welfare recipients who use long - term or permanent contraception, and reductions in jail time for offenders who agree to use contraception.