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Bruce Linton: I was fired as co-CEO of Canadian pot company Canopy Growth

Bruce Linton, co-CEO of Canopy Growth, said he was fired from the Canadian pot company he founded in 2013 in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. Canopy, the world’s largest publicly traded cannabis company by market value, earlier Wednesday announced in a press release that Linton was removed as co-chief executive officer and a member… Read More »

A New Netflix Documentary Looks at the Strange, Coma-Like Condition Known as ‘Resignation Syndrome’

Life Overtakes Me, Netflix’s short but affecting documentary that opened on June 14 focuses on a rare but timely disorder: resignation syndrome. Children with the condition appear to be sleeping, but they can’t be woken—seeing only a hopeless future, they become completely cut off from the outside world. As one doctor puts it, “Parents are… Read More »

Further insight needed into potential development delays in preterm children

Executive functioning delays – such as difficulties with attention, concentration and self-control – which frequently occur in preterm children actually persist beyond early infancy, through to school-entry age, new research has found. Researchers from the College of Health and Medicine’s Division of Psychology studied how preterm children, are at a higher risk of developing executive… Read More »

Psychiatrist: My Medicine Raised Our Patient’s Blood Sugar, Can You Help? PCP: That’s a Dump!

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD If my hypertensive patient develops orthostatism and falls and breaks her hip, I fully expect the orthopedic surgeon on call to treat her. I may kick myself that this happened but I’m not qualified to treat a broken hip. If my anticoagulated patient hits his head and suffers a subdural hematoma,… Read More »