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  • Marijuana users at greater risk for heart attack, stroke

    03/20/2025 12:12:30 PM PDT · by absalom01 · 31 replies
    UPI ^ | March 19, 2025 | Dennis Thompson
    Weed users are much more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other life-threatening heart condition than people who don't indulge, a new study says.Adults under 50 are more than six times as likely to suffer a heart attack if they use marijuana, compared to non-users, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JACC Advances.They also have a dramatically higher risk of stroke, heart failure and heart-related death, researchers said."Asking about cannabis use should be part of clinicians' workup to understand patients' overall cardiovascular risk, similar to asking about smoking cigarettes," lead researcher Dr. Ibrahim Kamel, a clinical instructor at...
  • Bluefin-21 deployed today in hunt for MH370 – JACC

    04/14/2014 2:39:23 AM PDT · by blueplum · 19 replies
    The Malaysian Times ^ | April 14, 2014 | Paper Editor
    PERTH, Apr 14: The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 will be deployed later today, as the search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues underwater. Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) chief coordinator Air Chief Marshal (Retired) Angus Houston said the decision to deploy Bluefin was made as no further confirmed signals had been picked up by the towed pinger locator since Tuesday last week, reported Bernama. :snip: ... the AUV, which had the ability to go down to 4,500m underwater, would be deployed on its first mission covering approximately an area of 40sq km in the vicinity of...