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Therefore, in the abstract, it appears that marijuana is an overall safer drug. There have been no recorded deaths from cannabis overdose, and the potentially lethal dose of marijuana is over a thousand times the effective dose. There is also no link between lung cancer and chronic marijuana use, according to a study done at UCLA in 2006, yet unhealthy alcohol consumption is known to have very detrimental effects on the liver...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: A Toke for Good Health? | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...clinical drug trials - an attempt to protect pregnant women from harm and avoid the potentially confounding effects of women's hormone fluctuations. Since then, as studies have actively recruited women, gender-based research has begun to reveal crucial information about how the development of diseases - such as heart disease, lung cancer and autoimmune disorders - may affect women in markedly different ways from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Statins Work Equally for Men and Women? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...closets—which will eventually be used to run vertical water-carrying pipes—will undergo an asbestos-abatement process first, in order to get rid of the thin fibrous crystals found in the closet floor tiles, that if airborne and inhaled, can cause serious lung cancers...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Asbestos in Currier House | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

...Other medical professionals, however, were happy to help. "We volunteered to help take the blood because the people don't want this Prime Minister," said Tip Daosakhun, a nurse from Siriraj Hospital, where Thailand's constitutional monarch is recovering from a lung infection, as she worked in one of the medical tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thai Red Shirts Prepare for Bloody Protest | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

...suspects some red shirts hope to provoke the military into responding with force, or even stage an incident so that the military will be blamed. They would then appeal to constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej to intervene. The 82-year-old king, recuperating in a Bangkok hospital from a lung infection, has on occasion intervened to end bloodshed and forge a compromise during times of crisis. Thaksin's opponents have questioned whether he and the red shirt movement are loyal to the monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling for New Election, Protesters Swarm Bangkok | 3/14/2010 | See Source »

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