Monday, November 18, 2019

What Is Popcorn Lung, and Can You Get It from Vaping?

What Is Popcorn Lung, and Can You Get It from Vaping?



In fact, "two medical articles by highly respected lung pathologists have shown, independently, similar findings of lung injury based on the examination of lung tissue biopsies from people who had a history of vaping, several of whom had a history of vaping marijuana or cannabis oils." But these weren't patients with popcorn lung. "Both teams of lung pathologists showed biopsies containing 'acute lung injury,' including 'diffuse alveolar damage' and 'organizing pneumonia.'" 



Sunday, November 17, 2019

Don’t kill innovation in Medicare drugs

Don’t kill innovation in Medicare drugs


"Let’s not forget that the goal of federal health programs is to make people healthier. Without new specialty medicines, that won’t happen, and insurance will be just an empty gesture."

"...Hong Kong’s people will not go down without a fight."

Risky 



"China’s leaders must know that they will run into powerful resistance. While some initial steps will be taken in Beijing, the plan’s most substantive measures will require action on the ground in Hong Kong. And if the ongoing protests have shown anything, it is that Hong Kong’s people will not go down without a fight."

Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history

Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history



And the medical marijuana PR campaign has its ‘torches of freedom’ moment, too. I have tracked it down to pages 18 and 19 of the February 6, 1979 issue of the Emory Wheel, the newspaper of Atlanta’s Emory University. Keith Stroup, the veteran founder and mainstay of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said he and his campaign were ‘trying to get marijuana reclassified medically’ and that they would ‘be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name’. It must be the single most successful rebranding in marketing history. Millions now associate a highly dangerous drug with miracle cures, health and wellbeing. Mr Stroup, understandably, has since denied the words, but the article is still sitting in the Emory library for anyone who wants to check.