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Why Chinese medicine is heading for clinics around the world

Choi Seung-hoon thought he had an impossible assignment. On a grey autumn day in Beijing in 2004, he embarked on a marathon effort to get a couple of dozen representatives…

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Hope for cancer patients as tiny lab-grown tumours could pave the way for personalised treatments

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, tested the therapy They grew cancer cells from biopsies taken from real living patients And screened hundreds of drugs to find ones…

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France’s Softening Stance On Cannabis Opens Up Huge Economic Potential

France still has some of the most stringent anti-cannabis regulations in Europe but things are slowly changing, opening up huge opportunities in the world's seventh largest economy (France's GDP growth has recently been overtaken by…

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Just SIX patients have been prescribed medical cannabis since it was legalised in the UK

Specialist doctors have been able to prescribe it since November 1 last year But the British Paediatric Neurology Association’s guidelines advise against it Mother of well-known case Alfie Dingley called law…

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Cannabis could be downgraded by the World Health Organization to make it more available in medicines

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has proposed to relist substance May also strike non-THC products, such as cannabis oil, from all drug controls  UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs will…

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‘Cell of origin’ thought to trigger EVERY type of cancer and allow the disease to spread is discovered by scientists

Tests found the cell to blame cheats death and breaks out of a zombie-like state Salford University researchers found they then run amok to create a tumour They described their…

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