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...stand up without my medicine, I won't make it." For Miller, who volunteers at the Colorado Patient Coalition, medical marijuana is as necessary as his hospital bed, scooter, handicapped-access ramp and special lift chairs. And like them, it was recommended by a Veterans Affairs doctor. "Durbin Poison is a nice med. It won't wipe you out," Miller says to a young woman who has just walked in the door, sounding like a clerk in a high-end department store. (See pictures of the great American pot smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Denver | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...sold a novel called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to a large New York City publisher for a sum rumored to be in the mid - six figures. Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House, once remarked that the most surefire best seller imaginable would be a book called Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. He was close. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Rise of Zombies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critique of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Laughs) I grew up like the kids in “Children of Invention,” with Chinese immigrant parents. The stereotype is that immigrant parents want their kids to assume traditional doctor, lawyer, business-type positions. My dad was a painter, so he knew firsthand how difficult it was to make it as an artist. But at the same time he has been a stock trader too. Ultimately they are not disappointed. My father is an artist, and my mother is artistically inclined, so they know the draw of the arts...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Mynette A. Louie ’97 | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...minor stomachaches and queasiness to life-threatening E. coli infections, are a serious public-health threat in the U.S., resulting in 5,000 deaths and 325,000 hospitalizations each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). When tallied up, the consequences of foodborne illness - including doctor visits, medication, lost work days and pain and suffering - cost the U.S. an estimated $152 billion annually. That figure was reported on Wednesday in a new study by the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Price Tag on Food Unsafety | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...intriguing new study led by doctors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston aimed to explore that question through a series of interviews conducted with 141 parents whose children had died of cancer. The study reports that 19 parents said they had thought about asking a doctor to hasten their child's death and that 13 parents actually discussed it with caregivers. When asked by the study authors, an additional 34% of the parents said that in retrospect, they would have considered intentionally ending their child's life if the child had been in uncontrollable pain. "The fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Parents Weigh Hastening End for Dying Children | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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