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...than several mainstream drugs.) Other studies have shown THC to be a very effective antinausea treatment for people--cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, for example--for whom conventional medications aren't working. And medical cannabis has shown promise relieving pain in patients with multiple sclerosis and reducing intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients. See Sanjay Gupta's column Fit Nation...
...best, but it costs patients money and, worse, may expose them to harmful side effects for years or even decades. "The commonest medicines that we use are inhaled steroids," says Aaron. "They are very safe for patients with asthma, but are associated with long-term side effects, including osteoporosis, glaucoma and cataracts." The drugs may also exacerbate the patients' actual disorder - anxiety, for example - for which patients may continue to fail to seek treatment...
...than a decade, starting out by helping to gather signatures for the 1996 initiative that legalized marijuana for medical purposes. At first skeptical, the Texas-born son of a physician and a nurse was moved by meeting a Berkeley schoolteacher who used marijuana to cope with the pain of glaucoma. "I thought, 'this isn't somebody wanting to get high - this is real,'" recalls Duncan. "I want to help...
...Kiebdaj said she lost her sight legally when she was about 5 years old. Surgery on the cataracts she was born with led to glaucoma, and her eyes developed scar tissue. She can still make out shapes and movement, but is unable to read...
...octogenarian rapscallions are evoked in two of the most remarkable performances of the year. Cleavon Little and Judd Hirsch totter convincingly as men whose eyes are blear with glaucoma and cataracts and whose hips are fragile, "like a teacup." Yet they do not milk their infirmities for sympathy. They emphasize instead the odd-couple differences in their personalities and ways of life. As they egg each other on to battle, they also come to know and trust each other. Hence Rappaport is less a problem drama than a kind of love story. Little depicts a man who has survived...