Top Health Stories of the Weekend

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1. Tourism for Fertility: Are you having problems with fertility? If so, try vacationing in Barbados!
"She chose to fly thousands of miles to the Barbados Fertility Centre for treatment because she could not find an egg donor in the UK."

2. A Cannabusiness for patients with Multiple Sclerosis is shut down in the UK.
All three defendants told the court they believed they had a defence of medical necessity in supplying the cannabis-laced bars, but this was rejected by the jury. After the hearing Lezley Gibson said: "The maximum sentence for what we've been found guilty of is 14 years in jail. If you were a child pervert your maximum sentence is only 12. "I think there's a mistake in the law, and I think they really, really really need to re-think the law on cannabis and medicinal use. Bringing ill people to court and torturing them like this isn't what you do. "You look after ill people, and you try to make them better. You do not torture them and drag them back and forward to a court of law."

3. Fast Food in Hospitals- McDonalds, thanks for setting another bad example.
"Having fast-food restaurants in children's hospitals influences patients' families to eat fast food and to think that it's relatively healthy, new research suggests. At least 59 of the nation's 250 children's hospitals have fast-food restaurants, the study found. That is a troubling phenomenon, particularly given rising obesity rates, said the study's lead author, Dr. Hannah Sahud, a pediatrician at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."

4. Good and Healthy Skin on the Cheap
"Spend a fortune on anti-wrinkle creams? Don't bother, said a U.S. study released Tuesday. Luxury-price products don't work any better than drugstore brands, according to the study by Consumer Reports magazine, which ranked Olay Regenerist, priced at about $19, as the most effective in reducing wrinkles."



This is some VERY interesting news. I hope you enjoy it, because I sure did. It says a lot about where medicine is going, but more importantly, where we are going as a civilization.

In the words of the great Anonymous: "Read, and you shall have read"