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Researchers believe medical cannabis could possibly help treat cancer as well as a number of related symptoms. In a study published on Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology, experts from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Alpert Medical School of Brown University observed...

UAB is currently working with Children's of Alabama to see if a special form of medical marijuana known as cannabidiol, or CBD oil, is an effective treatment for adults and children with severe seizures. The study launched in April 2015, a year after it was authorized by the Alabama State...

UAB is currently working with Children's of Alabama to see if a special form of medical marijuana known as cannabidiol, or CBD oil, is an effective treatment for adults and children with severe seizures. The study launched in April 2015, a year after it was authorized by the Alabama State...

Some multiple sclerosis patients use medical marijuana to reduce their pain and muscle spasms, and a Colorado State University researcher is launching a crowdfunding campaign to study possible benefits and side effects of this long-term marijuana use. The research project will not involve...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has drawn attention to what many call an epidemic: the deaths of thousands of people each year from opioid painkillers and heroin. Two-thousand fourteen was the worst year and saw more than 47,000 Americans die due to opioid painkillers, according to a Centers for...

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich on Tuesday directed Los Angeles County departments to enact a 45-day moratorium on the manufacturing, testing or cultivation of medical marijuana in the county's unincorporated areas while the effects of a ban are studied. The county already forbids dispensing...

The medical marijuana oil study ongoing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is showing near across-the-board reductions in seizures for its patients. Dr. Jerzy Szaflarski, head of the Division of Epilepsy at UAB and one of the principal investigators in the CBD oil study known as...

Patients who are registered to use medicinal cannabis in compliance with state law are often over the age of 40, according to a demographic assessment published online ahead of print in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. An investigator with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

Patients diagnosed with migraine headaches saw a significant drop in their frequency when treated with medical marijuana, according to a new study from researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study...

Patients diagnosed with migraine headaches saw a significant drop in their frequency when treated with medical marijuana, according to a new study from researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is easing the rules for researchers who study an extract of the marijuana plant. The change means less paperwork for researchers when they change the study dosage of CBD -- or cannabinol -- an active chemical in marijuana. Some health researchers think...

Marijuana is seen as a wonder drug by people who suffer chronic pain and seizures, although critics are wary of its hallucinating side effect. To prevent the negative effects of cannabis, scientists have tried extracting specific non-addictive components from marijuana to assess their health...

Marijuana is seen as a wonder drug by people who suffer chronic pain and seizures, although critics are wary of its hallucinating side effect. To prevent the negative effects of cannabis, scientists have tried extracting specific non-addictive components from marijuana to assess their health...

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that can cause seizures and affects about 460,000 children aged 0 to 17, CDC estimates. This week, two new studies that show how a marijuana-derived oil may be effective in reducing seizures in children with epilepsy are to be presented at the American Epilepsy...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida has shown that alcohol is far more of a "gateway drug" than Cannabis is. The study concluded that: Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the "gateway" drug, leading to the use of tobacco...

The debate on medical marijuana has long existed since its legalization. The said debate however is about to end as the latest study in regards to medical marijuana's usage stated that it is safe for long term use. According to Science Daily, the latest Canadian study on medical marijuana is...

The debate on medical marijuana has long existed since its legalization. The said debate however is about to end as the latest study in regards to medical marijuana's usage stated that it is safe for long term use. According to Science Daily, the latest Canadian study on medical marijuana is...

Tina McDermott lays her 9-year-old son Ryan down flat on the living room floor and places her leg on his chest. His arms stiffen and his eyes gaze blankly out to one side while his mother mixes a cocktail of PediaSure, three pharmaceutical drugs and a few drops of cannabis oil. “Wait a sec,”...

Tina McDermott lays her 9-year-old son Ryan down flat on the living room floor and places her leg on his chest. His arms stiffen and his eyes gaze blankly out to one side while his mother mixes a cocktail of PediaSure, three pharmaceutical drugs and a few drops of cannabis oil. “Wait a sec,”...