Clinical medicine

Labour MP Paul Flynn making his case in the Commons for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in parliament on Wednesday, urged people to come to Parliament to ‘break the law’ and smoke the drug on the premises of the House.

Flynn was arguing in favour of legalising medicinal cannabis for patients with chronic conditions.

A North Carolina man whose heart stopped for about 40 minutes has paid tribute to the emergency workers who brought him back from the dead.
John Ogburn, 36, suffered a cardiac arrest while working on his laptop near his Charlotte home on 26 June.
Two police officers who happened to be nearby began CPR on the father-of-three within a minute of the 911 call.

A top surgeon has refuted claims from the family of a 10-month-old baby that heart transplant surgery is not conducted on young babies in Turkey. 

Turkish Cardiovascular Surgery Foundation Prof. Rüçhan Akar's comments came on July 5 after a family initiated a fundraising campaign that raised 1.1 million euros for their baby to undergo crucial heart transplant surgery in Germany.

Girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their genitals because they are distressed by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told.
Dr Naomi Crouch, a leading adolescent gynaecologist, said she was concerned GPs were referring rising numbers of young girls who wanted an operation.

Two of the victims of Trakia Motorway chain crash are heavily injured and in real danger to life, reported BGNES.

According to Slavcho Bliznakov, Executive Director of ''St.Anna'' 15 people were hospitalized two of which are children.

Another two patients are in a serious health condition. Both have fractures in the neck. They are 45 years old.

Greece has become the latest European country to legalise marijuana for medical purposes.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said last week that doctors will soon be able to prescribe the drug for a variety of medical conditions.

Cannabis is normally prescribed for conditions like muscle spasms, chronic pain, PTSD, epilepsy and cancer.

Bosnia's University Clinical Hospital in Mostar, in southwest Bosnia, will have to pay a former patient about 20,000 convertible marks - around 10,000 euros - plus interest and the costs of court proceedings, for leaving a pair of scissors in his stomach by mistake in 2003.

A joint decision signed by the Health and Justice ministries opening the way for the import of cannabis-based pharmaceuticals was published in Friday's edition of the Government Gazette.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo's liver cancer can not be treated with surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, Liu's wife said, as questions increased among his supporters over his treatment by the Chinese authorities.

Children in Greece are showing all the signs of poor food choices and a lack of exercise, with high blood pressure and pre-diabetic symptoms, a study by Harokopio University has shown.