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Don’t let Christmas tree needles go to waste Precious pines: a woman in Brighton carries her tree to a recycling centre Credit: simon dack/alamy SIR – Felicity Cloake says we should eat our Christmas trees rather than throwing them away. I would add that pine-needle culinary delights are best enjoyed while soaking extremities in a needle-infused footbath. Peter Saunders   SIR – On the question of when to take festive decorations down (Letters, December 30), many years ago, when my three ...

Ports Association Hires Membership, Public Affairs Executives The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)—the unified and recognized voice of seaports in the Americas—announced it has hired two new senior staff members to fill positions of two long-time senior staff who will soon be retiring. Paula Gonzalez, previously the global membership manager for the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) in Newark, Del., began her new position as AAPA’s senior manager of membership ...

Colorado Medical Society launches vaccine awareness campaign Michael Goldberg | Dec 14, 2020 Share this: Today, the Colorado Medical Society (CMS) launched a campaign to bring awareness to the COVID-19 vaccine as it arrives at hospitals around the country. Titled #CMSWhatsYourWhy, the campaign is aimed at physicians and community members alike. To join the campaign, physicians are being asked to take a picture of themselves with the #CMSWhatsYourWhy downloadable photo prop available ...

FacebookTwitterEmail Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Childrens Hospitals Center for Vaccine Development, poses for a photograph outside the lab Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Houston.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer New vaccines are on the horizon — but is it too late to blunt the pandemic’s winter surge? Might Houston fare better than the rest of Texas? And why could a traditional-method vaccine be better for kids? To answer these questions, we once again check in with va...

FacebookTwitterEmail Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Childrens Hospitals Center for Vaccine Development, poses for a photograph outside the lab Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Houston.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer New vaccines are on the horizon — but is it too late to blunt the pandemic’s winter surge? Might Houston fare better than the rest of Texas? And why could a traditional-method vaccine be better for kids? To answer these questions, we once again check in with va...

Michael Kolody, the engineer representing Tomahawk Lake, said the updated plan includes moving the fee collection area farther down the main entrance road to contain any vehicle backup within park property. Lynne Wallace-Gallo, part of the waterparks family ownership group, said the park has increased the number of collectors along the route to expedite the process. Kolody said the park would be willing to widen the road since ownership shares the boards desire to avoid major backups into the...

Players are the perfect population to see just how bad the opioid crisis really is. one study shows former players abuse opioids four times more than the general population. its a tough, brutal game after all. constant pounding. hard hits. lots of pain. kyle turley, mike james. they felt they needed the opioids just to be able to do their job. >> your production is how you get paid. and you cant produce, you know, without playing on the field. >> opioids they were told by doctors were the best w...

And in my view if we really want to get medicines to people then we go about it in the way that weve always gone about it, sanjay. and thats called nih research, clinical trials, fda approval. and the reason we have that as you know, sanjay, is because of safety, efficacy and risk. >> its a fair point. but the presidents commission did not recommend any research into medical marijuana nor any of its compounds, including nonpsychoactive cbd. a mistake, a missed opportunity according to researcher...

Opioids. and as youve just seen, that means the brain disease of addiction is never fully treated. which is why hurd started to focus on the cbd in cannabis, ton only treat the underlying pain but to also heal the brain. >> cbd normalize thats. so by normalizing glutemate you can restructure and normalize and restructure the impairments in the cellular level at the molecular level. >> helping get rid of the cravings that keeps taking someone back. >> exactly. exactly. >> and its not just the pai...

Were you addicted to them? >> physically. >> that led him to dr. mark wallace, who then recommended medical marijuana. >> it was amazing. i had immediate pain relief. not that it was gone. but it was so tolerable that i was like in heaven. >> almost two years later, mark is opioid-free. and nearly pain-free. on a scale of one to ten? >> two. i mean, it feels like a little bit of pressure in my leg instead of burning. its amazing. it really is. >> what type of exercise are you doing? >> yet despi...