Marijuana’s Journey to Legal Health Treatment: The Canadian Experience
For more than 70 years, possession of marijuana has been a crime in Canada. For most of that time, there were no exceptions for...
Isotope Crisis Highlights Timeliness of SNM Meeting
With the Chalk River* nuclear reactor in Laurentian Hills, Ontario, Canada, shutdown, a reactor that supplies one-third** of the nuclear isotopes to the world,...
Was the Alarm over Swine Flu Justified?
Like a patient suffering from a particularly tenacious case of, well, the flu, the H1N1 virus seemed to gain ground and then lose it...
Recalculating the Tally in Swine Flu Deaths
About 4,000 Americans rather than about 1,200 — have died of swine flu since the disease emerged in April, according to new figures being...
New HIV cases in U.S. underreported by 40 percent
The United States has significantly underreported the number of new HIV infections occurring nationally each year, with a study showing that the annual infection...
