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May is the national Better Sleep Month. And as the school year comes to a close and the summer is about to begin a national survey has found that it’s the adolescents in the U.S. that are not getting the rest they truly need. Today, UT Health Center’s Dr. Mom puts to rest the facts about teens and how to get quality sleep.

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Ahuva Gamliel, ND, AP is a Naturopathic Doctor (in WA State) and an Acupuncture Physician in FL. She has a family-centered practice where she integrates nutrition, supplements, and lifestyle recommendations in her treatment plans in order for individuals to achieve their optimal health and wellbeing. She is dedicated to holistic treatments and practices the naturopathic principles of patient care:

1. First do no harm.
2. Utilize the healing power of nature.
3. Identify & treat the cause.
4. Treat the whole person.
5. Prevention is the best cure.
6. Establish health & wellness.
7. Physician as teacher.

Please visit http://www.DrGamliel.com for more information.

Dr. Gamliel’s focus is on helping people to heal themselves. She incorporates mind-body-spirit in all her treatment plans.

One of the unique and specialized services that Dr. Gamliel practices is Cosmetic Acupuncture. It is a safe, non-toxic alternative to botox and mesotherapy which utilizes FDA approved homeopathic injectable remedies. This highly specialized technique from Italy is only available in 6 states in the USA!

Many PPO insurances do cover her services. To find out if yours does, go to www.DrGamliel.com and click on “insurance form,” print the form, fill it out, and fax it in. You will be contacted within 48 hours of receiving your fax to explain your coverage.

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with Dr. Ahuva Gamliel
Your Partner in Natural Healing!

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An estimated 150,000 Americans have advanced heart failure.
And when standard medical therapy is no longer effective, and a near-term heart transplant is not available, implantable heart pumps often are the only other option for patients.

Results of a comparative clinical study, presented by a Duke cardiologist at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions in November 2009, indicate that a new kind of heart pump—a continuous flow pump– shows significant improvement in survival for heart failure patients, when compared to the more commonly used pulsatile flow heart pump.

The study findings show that after two years, significantly more patients with the new device survived free of stroke or another operation to replace the device, compared to patients with the older devicea four-fold improvement.

Dr. Joe Rogers, Duke cardiologist said The group of patients we studied werent even candidates for transplantation for some reason or another, so they were left a very little hope that they would have an improvement either in their survival or their quality of life. And we were able to demonstrate in this very sick population that we can improve both.

200 patients in the study all of whom had advanced heart failure- received either the new Heartmate II pump, or the standard pumping, pulsatile flow device. After one year, nearly 70 percent of patients on the new continuous flow pump survived, compared to 55 percent in the pulsatile flow group.

One of the Achilles heels of the older pumps was that they would tend to break, fairly reliably, somewhere within 12 or 18 months of implantation, and were not seeing that same kind of malfunction rate or breakage rate with the new device.

Doctors now hope to explore the new pumps use in patients who have less severe heart failure. The new pump is currently undergoing review for more widespread clinical use.

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In January 2006, investigators at the British Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Disease reported successful treatment of arthritis with cannabinoids in the first-ever controlled trial assessing the efficacy of natural cannabis extracts on RA.[3] Investigators reported that administration of cannabis extracts over a five week period produced statistically significant improvements in pain on movement, pain at rest, quality of sleep, inflammation, and intensity of pain compared to placebo. No serious adverse effects were observed. Similar results had been reported in smaller, Phase II trials investigating the use of orally administered cannabis extracts on symptoms of RA.[

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7015
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For patients and their physicians, let this report serve as a primer for those who are considering using or recommending medicinal cannabis. For others, let this report serve as an introduction to the broad range of emerging clinical applications for cannabis and its various compounds.

Paul Armentano
Deputy Director
NORML | NORML Foundation
Washington, DC
January 24, 2008

* The author would like to acknowledge Drs. Dale Gieringer, Gregory Carter, Steven Karch, and Mitch Earleywine, as well as NORML interns John Lucy, Christopher Rasmussen, and Rita Bowles, for providing research assistance for this report. The NORML Foundation would also like to acknowledge Dale Gieringer, Paul Kuhn, and Richard Wolfe for their financial contributions toward the publication of this report.

** Important and timely publications such as this are only made possible when concerned citizens become involved with NORML. For more information on joining NORML or making a donation, please visit: http://www.norml.org/join. Tax deductible donations in support of NORML’s public education campaigns should be made payable to the NORML Foundation.
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Prohibition…goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln December 1840

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Sleep Apnea Research found at www.norml.com
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One preclinical study is cited in the scientific literature investigating the role of cannabinoids on sleep-related apnea. Writing in the June 2002 issue of the journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, researchers at the University of Illinois (at Chicago) Department of Medicine reported “potent suppression” of sleep-related apnea in rats administered either exogenous or endogenous cannabinoids.[1] Investigators reported that doses of delta-9-THC and the endocannabinoid oleamide each stabilized respiration during sleep, and blocked serotonin-induced exacerbation of sleep apnea in a statistically significant manner. No follow up investigations have taken place assessing the use of cannabinoids to treat this indication. However, several recent preclinical and clinical trials have reported on the use of THC, natural cannabis extracts, and endocannabinoids to induce sleep[2,3] and/or improve sleep quality.[4]

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For patients and their physicians, let this report serve as a primer for those who are considering using or recommending medicinal cannabis. For others, let this report serve as an introduction to the broad range of emerging clinical applications for cannabis and its various compounds.

Paul Armentano
Deputy Director
NORML | NORML Foundation
Washington, DC
January 24, 2008

* The author would like to acknowledge Drs. Dale Gieringer, Gregory Carter, Steven Karch, and Mitch Earleywine, as well as NORML interns John Lucy, Christopher Rasmussen, and Rita Bowles, for providing research assistance for this report. The NORML Foundation would also like to acknowledge Dale Gieringer, Paul Kuhn, and Richard Wolfe for their financial contributions toward the publication of this report.

** Important and timely publications such as this are only made possible when concerned citizens become involved with NORML. For more information on joining NORML or making a donation, please visit: http://www.norml.org/join. Tax deductible donations in support of NORML’s public education campaigns should be made payable to the NORML Foundation.

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Prohibition:

“Prohibition…goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” — Abraham Lincoln December 1840

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