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Cannabis shown to be more effective than hydroxychloroquine

Photo from piqsels.com, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Rick Bakas, Flowsent In the race to find a cure for COVID-19, a team of Canadian scientists have found at least thirteen strains of cannabis shown to be effective against the coronavirus. The President of the United States of...

Cannabis ingredient CBD could one day become an antibiotic

Photo by Lode Van de Velde via PublicDomainPictures.net (CC0 1.0) Article by Kashmira Gander, via Newsweek As scientists work to stem the tide of antibiotic resistance, the authors of a study believe an ingredient in cannabis could one day form the basis of a new drug. Antibiotic, or...

For Singing Surgeon At Mayo Clinic, Music Is Medicine

Article by Kate Raddatz, via CBS Minnesota ROCHESTER, Minn. (WCCO) — A Minnesota surgeon is going viral. It’s not for his medicine, but his music. Elvis Francois is an orthopedic surgeon doing his residence at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. For Francois, surgery and song go hand in hand. “It’s almost like breathing, I just...