However, more concern was expressed about nonphysician practitioners taking call, covering emergency departments and performing hospital rounds. There's now an official marijuana ward for HIV patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Patients will spend 21 days taking the protease inhibitor indinavir and smoking either marijuana or a placebo while researchers study how the substances interact, reports Physician's Weekly . Losing weight may be the fastest route to a good night's sleep for some people. Losing as little as 20 pounds can improve airflow significantly, and reaching an ideal body weight may cure the problem.
Pain following a mastectomy can last for years.
In a study of 137 women who underwent surgery for breast cancer, a University of Kentucky team found that 25 percent had pain and discomfort for up to eight years after surgery. On a scale of 0 to 10, the women rated their pain an average of 3.1, reports Physician's Weekly . Drug abuse was the biggest U.S. social concern of 1997, cited by 32 percent of adults as among their top two or three concerns in a Roper Starch Worldwide survey published in American Demographics . The homeless were a top concern for 21 percent of those surveyed, terrorism for 13 percent and foreign relations for 10 percent. Getting into a war and having fuel and energy shortages were top concerns for 5 percent of those surveyed.