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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Research at the Med School has "demythologized" marijuana through scientific study and has established the suppression of nausea in chemotherapy patients as an important medical use of the drug, Zinberg said...
...regulations also require financial aid officers to discuss the loan payment schedule with each loan recipient. the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said yesterday he has been studying the use of marijuana to control the side effects of chemotherapy since 1971, when a patient told him that smoking the drug before chemotherapy treatments eliminated the usual nausea...
...preliminary results of Sallan's current research comparing THC and compazine, the regularly-used anti-emetic drug, indicate the marijuana derivative is effective for many patients who do not respond to the conventional drug...
...Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize commercial production of the vaccine before year's end. At first shots will probably be recommended only for those at highest risk: people over 50, victims of chronic ailments, and those confined to crowded, epidemic-prone areas like military bases. But eventually, protection against bacterial pneumonia may become as common as vaccinations against smallpox...
...remainder of the victim's life. Women seem about twice as vulnerable as men, yet a related headache called the cluster (because it strikes repeatedly over several hours) most often affects tall, hard-driving men. For years the standard treatment for chronic headaches was a combination of the drug ergotamine tartrate and caffeine (Cafergot), which acts to constrict the expanded blood vessels...