Do not post:• Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs; Depicts, admits to, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates; Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugsl; Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context• Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs.
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The family care system, as it's known, is resolutely non-medical.
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Santa Monica, for example, has banned non-medical marijuana storefronts entirely.
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" A Facebook spokesperson said "Our Community Standards do not allow people to buy, sell or [trade] non-medical or pharmaceutical drugs, or promote the use of non-medical drugs including providing instructions on how to use them.
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After age 65, you can make withdrawals to cover non-medical expenses.
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When She Didn't Want to Hear Non-Medical Opinions About Her Pregnancy Workouts
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Some lawmakers across the U.S. have proposed bans on non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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Approximately 22019 million people reported non-medical use of prescription drugs in 2014.
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Non-medical professionals can reach populations that may not regularly see a dermatologist.
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She wrote about non-medical maladies as well, and Eloesser was her confidant.
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It was the first time they'd ever left their room for something non-medical.
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Only three states currently bar all non-medical exemptions: California, Mississippi and West Virginia.
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Wilson has already said she plans to vote to keep the non-medical exemption.
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I used to work as a non-medical partner at a Harley Street clinic.
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But short and long-term care insurance cover non-medical care needs if disabled.
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We must push for stricter legislation to regulate the non-medical marketing of CBD.
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Many public health officials point to non-medical exemptions as part of the problem.
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About a quarter of the students reported using opioids for medical and non-medical uses.
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Nonetheless, New York isn't the only state to put a ban on non-medical exemptions.
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Only three states bar the use of non-medical waivers: California, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
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Federal law provides no basis to treat medical marijuana any differently than non-medical marijuana.
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With these potential ramifications, should CBD be marketed towards shoppers in a non-medical environment?
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If it was performed in a non-medical setting, it would be considered sexual assault.
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More than 5% were by random others, including dentists, non-medical spas and a hair salon.
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On top of that are non-medical costs related to caring for a special needs person.
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Here too, medical and non-medical use of the drugs declined between 2013 and 2015. Drs.
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Proposals to abolish non-medical exemptions have been introduced in several state legislatures this lawmaking season.
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Are the non-medical coping mechanisms we sub in for affordable, professional medical attention "self-care"?
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An as-yet-untapped HSA can also work like an emergency fund for non-medical expenses.
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Last week, New York lawmakers proposed legislation that would eliminate non-medical religious exemptions for vaccinations.
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Only three states have outlawed any non-medical exemptions for vaccinations - California, Mississippi and West Virginia.
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The only non-medical people who need to wear masks are sick people, not well ones.
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While medical and religious exemptions are allowed, parents can no longer conscientiously object on non-medical grounds.
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The cutting consists of the complete or partial removal of female external genitalia for non-medical reasons.
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Instead he tried to "cure her spirit" with what we can guess were traditional, non-medical remedies.
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It also requires unlicensed, non-medical facilities to inform clients that they are not licensed medical providers.
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"It has a policy solution, which is continuing to shut down the non-medical exemptions," Hotez says.
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Of course, same-sex couples may also want to use a surrogate for totally non-medical reasons.
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In parallel, states with outbreaks underway could help stem their growth by closing non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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It was published in October and demonstrated the power of GWAS to reach beyond non-medical matters.
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At the moment it does not offer scores for non-medical traits like height or educational attainment.
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Additionally, these non-medical switches usually happen only to realize costs savings, not to improve patient outcomes.
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Many psychiatrists are uncomfortable with the promotion of non-medical and non-evidence based approaches to schizophrenia.
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Anti-vaccination groups "are very aggressive in the ... states that currently allow non-medical exemptions," Hotez said.
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Transportation companies didn't know how to classify a non-medical, non-governmental, purely recreational can of air.
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California outlawed non-medical exemptions in 2015 after a measles outbreak was traced to the Disneyland theme park.
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California bucked the trend and abolished non-medical exemptions in 2015 in response to a big measles outbreak.
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However, non-medical vaccine exemption rates are growing at a troubling rate in the states that allow them.
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At the moment, non-medical attributes are not on the menu offered by would-be embryo SNP-profilers.
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" "You think he shouldn't respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder?
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Overall, Idaho has eight of the top 22018 counties with the highest rates of non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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Beneficiaries also still face mid-year formulary changes, and can have their medications switched for non-medical reasons.
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But finding a retail outlet to buy non-medical pot in California won't be easy, at least initially.
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Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Obama-era policy that enabled states to sell non-medical marijuana.
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Approximately one-third of all white heroin users reported using prescription drugs for non-medical purposes in 2001-2002.
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That's what led her to the Visiting Angels franchise, the non-medical in-home care service for older adults.
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In 2017-18 such non-medical exemptions were used for 2.2% of schoolchildren, double the rate in 2010-11.
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As it currently stands, however, that body doesn't oversee any sort of claims made for these "non-medical" products.
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"Before that, the focus of federal policymakers was almost exclusively on trying to stop non-medical use" of opioids.
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"We have to take into account that the demand for non-medical opium will continue to exist," she said.
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Because non-medical cannabis cultivation is still illegal, the culture surrounding these scenes tends to be insular and secretive.
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Plus, brands like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop had piqued the cultural interest in non-medical and alternative forms of treatment.
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When it came to the non-medical response, Aylward said there was a nationwide sense of solidarity with Hubei.
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But you think he shouldn't respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder?
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The new law makes New York only the fifth state in the nation to eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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Then, in 2014, Facebook and Apple announced their employees would receive full egg-freezing coverage for non-medical purposes.
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The agency has sent many warning letters to companies that manufacture devices and market them for non-medical colonic irrigation.
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In 2017-18 such non-medical exemptions were used for 2.2% of American schoolchildren, double the rate in 2010-11.
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Over the past few years, more and more women have been putting their eggs on ice for non-medical reasons.
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Five percent of Maine's kindergarten students have non-medical exemptions from vaccination, compared with a national average of 2 percent.
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Mississippi, West Virginia, and California have taken advantage of those rulings and banned all non-medical exemptions through legislative efforts.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a non-medical procedure that involves the total or partial removal of a woman's external genitalia.
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Hotez, for one, is optimistic that there isn't a cottage industry of physicians doling out medical exemptions for non-medical reasons.
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Even the government has called for more non-medical testing while it awaits reform proposals in April to break the deadlock.
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FGM, a non-medical procedure that involves the total or partial removal of a woman's external genitalia, is illegal in Kenya.
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That's a pretty big number compared to non-medical students, of whom only 16 percent are considered regular abusers of alcohol.
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Governor Janet Mills (D) signed a bill into law on Friday removing all non-medical exemptions to vaccination from the books.
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Arizona parents are currently allowed to seek non-medical "personal belief" exemptions to vaccinations for schoolchildren in kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Marijuana legislation, medical or non-medical, needs to include professional education about the impact of marijuana on pregnancy and children's health.
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Though aimed initially at medical applications, they also explicitly nod to the possible non-medical uses of this kind of implant technology.
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The university encourages non-medical students to register for its medical MOOCs, but an introductory background in biology and physiology is recommended.
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Only three states already bar all non-medical exemptions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures: Mississippi, West Virginia and California.
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In addition, between 1996 and 2014, at least 152,000 naloxone kits have been distributed to non-medical and non-first responder individuals.
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The average cannabis user spent about C$1,200 spent on the drug last year, mostly on non-medical marijuana, the report said.
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Content in which someone "admits to personal use of non-medical drugs" should not be posted on Facebook, the rule book says.
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Yet last summer, California passed SB 277, which eliminated all non-medical exemptions to vaccinations for children attending private or public schools.
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Members of the movement staged a rally in Washington state to oppose legislation that restricted non-medical vaccine exemptions earlier this year.
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Using rankings from US News and data from the Department of Education, we found the average salary for non-medical instructional staff.
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But TANF funds are just one way that states use taxpayer dollars to fund these non-medical, ideologically anti-abortion pregnancy centers.
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Dispensaries in Washington haveraked in over $1 billionin non-medical marijuana sales since the drug was legalized for recreational use in 2012.
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Pro-life pregnancy centers exist to offer practical medical and non-medical care that will support a woman's choice to give birth.
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California, which previously had notable levels of unvaccinated schoolchildren, has recently seen an overall decrease after the state outlawed non-medical exemptions.
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People who have been getting these drugs from physicians or pill mills for non-medical reasons like addiction shouldn't be abandoned, either.
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Hotez and other public health officials have expressed concern that one of the biggest contributing factors is vaccine exemptions for non-medical reasons.
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As long as it is done in good faith, they will tolerate experimentation on people that would be intolerable in non-medical circumstances.
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Makayla was not the first cancer patient to receive care at Hippocrates Health, a non-medical spa which nonetheless "treats" seriously ill people.
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In the industry, the fastest growth came from pet food, followed by veterinary services, retail channel pet supplies and non-medical pet services.
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And increasingly, there's evidence that people are turning to yet another drug: fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's often manufactured illegally for non-medical uses.
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"Closing non-medical exemptions like they did in California in 2016 was an important first step, but it's not the only step," he says.
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" What Kellyanne's saying, per Politico: "[Y]ou think he shouldn't respond when somebody, a non-medical professional, accuses him of having a mental disorder?
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The term "female genital mutilation," or FGM, refers to the non-medical practice where external genitalia, including the clitoris, is removed partially or entirely.
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These are non-medical, common sense actions that you can take to help slow the spread of pandemic flu before a vaccine becomes available.
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About 4.9 million Canadians between the ages of 15 to 64 purchased both medical and non-medical cannabis last year, the statistics agency said.
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The plan would cut $2628 million, an 28500 percent reduction, from the foundation, which gives grants for non-medical research in science and engineering.
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Mitch Greenlick (D) who proposed a bill to eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions, told the paper he disapproved of the do-it-yourself option.
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Using the second study, of 11,542 service men who reported being in combat, 9% said they used pain relievers for non-medical use and .
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The plan would cut $776 million, an 11 percent reduction, from the foundation, which gives grants for non-medical research in science and engineering.
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So why, across Canada and in many parts of the US, can parents opt out of getting their kids vaccinated for non-medical reasons?
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She examined all the "non-medical" ways women try to induce their own labor and parsed out whether they were more myth than truth.
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However, he did give points to Nima for opting to go through validation testing, as it's technically not required of a non-medical device.
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The harmful practice which violates human rights is done intentionally to alter and cause injury to a female's genital organ for non-medical reasons.
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Getting stoned in a non-medical setting is usually a way to make mundane aspects of your life seem a bit more fun and interesting.
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Lindsay has done exposure therapy with friends who do piercings or who are phlebotomists, to experiment with needles in a low-key, non-medical setting.
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When non-medical staff from departments of corrections attempt to use the three-drug cocktail, the results are often disastrous, leading to horrifically botched executions.
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Next, let's assume that 21% of the 19.8 million Americans who use marijuana for non-medical purposes could have been potential customers for marijuana growers.
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California, West Virginia, and Mississippi also lack non-medical exemptions from school immunization requirements, according to data maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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The procedure, in which genital organs are altered or injured for non-medical reasons to suppress sexuality, long has been deemed a human rights violation.
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Conventional medical treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, while any other unproven cancer treatment administered by non-medical personnel would be considered an alternative therapy.
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"You think he shouldn't respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder?" she said in an interview with Politico.
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This comes at a time when non-medical marijuana will be available legally in California and is anticipated to become legal in several other states.
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But the company also knew that supporters of the War on Drugs worried that some people were snorting or injecting oxycodone for non-medical purposes.
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Numerous studies have suggested abuse-deterrent opioids are fueling the overdose crisis by driving non-medical users to switch to heroin and fentanyl as substitutes.
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Today, radiographs created for non-medical purposes are common: natural history museums, for instance, take X-ray photographs of specimens to examine them without damage.
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Another study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 31% of non-medical deaths of pregnant women were the result of homicide.
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If positive outcomes can be shown for patients with depression, she would like to push towards legalisation — and eventually regulated access for non-medical uses.
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One particular challenge, she said, is that there's been a wave of books from non-medical authors that delve into pop science and dietary strategies.
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The ETF, which would buy stocks globally, "will not invest in any companies that are focused on serving the non-medical marijuana market in the United States, Canada or any other country unless and until such time as the production and sale of non-medical marijuana becomes legal in the United States, Canada or such other country," the prospective fund's managers said in the filing.
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Although trained non-medical personnel such as police, firefighters, teachers, security guards and other rescuers are the best to operate the devices, anyone can use them.
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While it is designated as a colloquial, non-medical term, it retains a firm hold over our sense of self-perception (not to mention, our wallets).
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The timing of this initiative is critical, considering that the national economic cost of autism — including direct medical, direct non-medical and productivity costs — is skyrocketing.
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They are being denied access to treatment because policymakers conflate the needs of people with pain and those who are using drugs for non medical purposes.
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AbbVie is also pushing hard to argue that patients who are stable on existing medication should not be switched for non-medical reasons, such as price.
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The way social prescribing works is that GPs will identify when a patient has non-medical needs, such as needing help with finances, mobility or socializing.
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse credits naloxone administered by non-medical professionals as saving at least 26,500 people from drug overdoses between 1996 and 2014.
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"There's no reason why non-medical exemptions should exist," said Maldonado, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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The Food and Drug Administration says it has implemented drastic regulatory changes to allow automakers and other non-medical manufacturers to quickly take up such tasks.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has harsh words for the Trump administration's move to end the legalization of non-medical marijuana — calling it both backwards and unproductive.
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Even non-medical pregnancy care centers — the ones focused on clothing, feeding, and diapering newborns—are compelled to convey the government's message, or refrain from advertising.
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And when the record -- according to the American Academy of Pediatrics -- shows that no state has passed legislation expanding non-medical exemptions for vaccinations since 2100?
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Washington and Oregon are among 17 states that allow non-medical exemptions from vaccination requirements for school entry, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Sometimes she does something non-medical that needs to be done, which is the hospice way—she might sweep a floor, she might heat up dinner.
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Hotez and his colleagues conducted their own county-level examination of non-medical vaccine exemptions across the United States, published last year in the journal Plos Medicine.
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During "pumping" procedures, non-medical grade silicone, often mixed with other substances, is injected directly into people's buttocks, hips, or lips to make body parts appear larger.
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The NHS is not geared up to treat non-medical problems, says Mark Sage, a doctor who plays a role in commissioning health services in west Kent.
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Non-medical professionals of all stripes weighed in on how she should proceed, why she took so long to disclose the serious illness, and suggested medical followup.
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It also would eliminate penalty-free withdrawals for non-medical expenses in the 65-and-older crowd as now permitted, according to people familiar with the bill.
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Vaccine denial is a serious public health issue The legislation is intended to cut down on the number of parents seeking vaccine exemptions for non-medical reasons.
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The same caveats apply: Planned Parenthood is being subtweeted; birth control will go down; undetected cancers and STDs and potentially dangerous non-medical abortions will go up.
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New York lawmakers on Thursday called to end non-medical exemptions vaccinations for school-aged children amid an ongoing measles outbreak in multiple parts of the state.
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The low end of this range is nearly 220% of the kindergarten population having a non-medical vaccine exemption in Morgan, Utah, to 2000% in Camas, Idaho.
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"They're more tech-focused, of course, not necessarily physical products, but all of these non-pharmacological, non-medical offerings for people to relieve their stress," says Grillo.
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Yes we need to close non-medical exemptions for personal or philosophical beliefs in the 18 US states that still allow this, as was done in California.
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Alternatively, if an exam or test is completed in a non-medical environment, it constitutes sexual abuse in the first degree — a felony in New York state.
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Immunization rates in Mississippi and West Virginia — the only other two US states that don't allow non-medical exemptions — are always among the best in the nation.
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The big picture: This drop-off in vaccinations owes primarily to parental exemptions for non-medical reasons, typically because of false beliefs that vaccines cause autism or illness.
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Men are three times more likely than women to use cannabis, cocaine or amphetamines, while women are more likely to take opioids and tranquilizers for non-medical purposes.
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Every time an opioid overdose is reversed by a friend, family member, or other non-medical person using the antidote naloxone anywhere in the world, Bigg deserves credit.
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Good news: New cases in New York City and state have both dropped after strong public health measures were taken, including revoking non-medical exemptions for MMR vaccinations.
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Given that the CareKit modules let developers include goals and options to share progress with others, it's easy to imagine CareKit being for non-medical uses as well.
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One study of non-medical use by college students found rates of up to 25 percent, with abuse concentrated among students with lower grades at academically competitive universities.
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Both missteps underscore how easy it is to mishandle—even accidentally—highly regulated health information, when you're a company like Google that mostly works with non-medical data.
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By taking both commonsense and innovative steps to make opioids less accessible for non-medical uses, we can reduce the number of ER cases and tragic, unnecessary deaths.
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Janet Mills (D) signed a bill last Friday ending most non-medical exemptions for mandatory childhood vaccines, just days after the first confirmed measles case hit the state.
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However, some states like Arizona and Texas are considering broadening vaccine, non-medical exemptions, making it easier to obtain a philosophical or religious exemption from required childhood vaccinations.
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It merely appears to intimidate doctors and likewise drive non-medical users — as well as desperate pain patients — to try illicit and riskier options like heroin and fentanyl.
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Family doctors, or GPs, in parts of the UK have started prescribing social activities such as book clubs for patients to meet their medical and non-medical needs.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics' official stance -- one it shares with most other medical organizations and agencies -- is that non-medical exemptions should be eliminated completely, O'Leary said.
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In response, California passed a law that rolled back non-medical vaccination exemptions — making it one of only three states to do so, along with Mississippi and West Virginia.
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HomeHero, a company that provides non-medical home care, is now using a new app created through Apple's CareKit platform in partnership with Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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So some who could no longer obtain prescribed painkillers turned to cheaper, more potent opioids: heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's often manufactured illegally for non-medical uses.
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On an average day (PDF), the agency calculates, 3,900 people use prescription painkillers for non-medical reasons, 580 people use heroin, and 78 people die from an opioid overdose.
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Non-medical professionals of all stripes weighed in on how she should proceed and why she took so long to disclose the serious illness, and suggested medical follow-up.
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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) estimated that 19.8 million Americans used marijuana for non-medical purposes in the month prior to responding to the survey.
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The new law, which ends non-medical exemptions to vaccines and takes effect September 2021, comes amid a nationwide controversy over parents who shun the use of childhood vaccinations.
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In 2018 he tried yet again, along with a resolution that would have placed the elimination of all non-medical vaccine exemptions on the general election ballot in November.
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The federal government is setting up systems to track all cannabis from seed to sale, to license non-medical producers and to test marijuana for potency and quality control.
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About 1.5 million patients who visited clinics between May 2015 and July 4 this year have had their non-medical personal particulars illegally accessed and copied, the statement said.
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Still, the analysis noted that few patients planned to dispose of the drugs as the Food and Drug Administration recommends -- and that can lead to dangerous non-medical use.
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Despite a lack of conclusive evidence that masks prevent transmission of respiratory diseases, some experts have argued that non-medical fabric masks might make a dent in transmission risk.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday announced a new program that will aim to produce 22 million non-medical masks for workers in essential sectors and medical patients.
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The result: a woman arriving at the dispensary will be seen by the nurse and a non-medical supervisor, while the doctor is called in, according to the supervisor.
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One big reason, Kurss suspects, is a shift by US hospitals and physicians to find non-medical options for pain management in response to the country's ongoing opioid epidemic.
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For example, Rochester and Miami-Luken are accused of failing to report suspicious orders of opioids, even when they should have known the drugs were going to non-medical uses.
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Social-prescribing schemes, in which doctors refer patients to non-medical treatments, are catching on, says Marie Polley, co-chair of the Social Prescribing Network of health workers and academics.
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In a sign of mounting political frustration, Migration Minister Morgan Johansson called on Sunday for the migration agency to carry out more non-medical tests, such as interviews with children.
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"There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship," Cruz's legal team wrote in 2007.
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The issue's championing by some celebrities, and well-organized groups on social media, caused the conspiracy theory to gain traction — and an increase in non-medical exemptions for mandatory vaccinations.
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Sanjay told radio station WINC he reached out to the Winchester Medical Center where he worked and learned about the Angel Fund, which helps cancer patients with non-medical expenses.
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The AP, citing the National Conference of State Legislatures, noted that Washington is one of 17 states in the country that allows people to claim non-medical exemptions for vaccines.
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Many countries are trying to buy ventilators, used to keep people with coronavirus alive if they struggle to breathe, with neighbouring Britain asking non-medical manufacturers to help produce them.
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Many countries are trying to buy ventilators, used to keep people with coronavirus alive if they struggle to breathe, with neighboring Britain asking non-medical manufacturers to help produce them.
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New York State, for instance, passed a law that bars parents from using non-medical exemptions to keep their children attending public school unvaccinated, as did other states and cities.
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Regulated GoodsPolicy RationaleTo encourage safety and compliance with common legal restrictions, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, and marijuana.
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And more than 6.5 million Americans over 12 have used opioids for a non-medical use in the past month, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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That's why non-medical exemption laws are opposed by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America—basically every reputable medical organization out there.
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Manigan said that at the September inspection, non-medical management learned that "sterilization and medication dispensing were not operating consistent with standard procedure," which primarily involved orthopedic instruments and surgical trays.
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If we are ever going to have a better regulatory system for pharmaceuticals—including those that have non-medical uses—we need to learn to get this type of oversight right.
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It proposes planning grants and technical assistance for states and communities to address individual patient non-medical needs that are closely tied to health, like food security, housing stability and employment.
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Officials plan to establish a laboratory and pharmacy in the complex, and they're urgently recruiting doctors and nurses, along with non-medical staff like security guards, to staff the new facility.
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Now, as several areas in the United States grapple with measles outbreaks, largely because of non-medical exemptions for vaccinations, Kightlinger and other experts point to Madagascar as a dangerous portent.
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The care team provides medical care and pain management, but the team also helps with the non-medical needs that come with the end of life, like emotional and spiritual support.
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The bill also directs Social Security to update their medical-vocational grids, or the non-medical determinants used to assess eligibility for SSDI, to account for the modernization of the workforce.
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But while it's easy to tell whether a post contains the word "vaccine," it's much harder to tell whether it's making unrealistic health claims or pushing non-medical treatments for serious diseases.
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Summer camps are subject to a patchwork of state regulations, many of which do not stipulate whether they can admit children who have not received the measles vaccine for non-medical reasons.
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This map, made by Mother Jones with CDC data, estimates non-medical exemption rates across the United States for the 2012–2013 school year: This map doesn't capture the variation within states.
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Facebook has decided that kratom is a "non-medical drug" and is removing posts and groups related to it—even though its use is considered to be a form of harm reduction.
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And because they're generally not performed by medical workers with scientifically recognized licenses, or with equipment that is FDA-approved for non-medical colonic hydrotherapy, there's no guarantee of basic hygiene standards.
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India began recruiting women to non-medical positions in the armed forces in 1992, yet they make up about 4% of the army's more than one million personnel, according to latest data.
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Insurers, both private and public, use this tactic, known as non-medical formulary switching, to limit the coverage of prescription drugs to the medications for which they can negotiate a lower price.
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Any shift towards payment for custodial care — any non-medical care that helps individuals with primary daily care, such as eating and bathing — could have significant financial implications regarding the new programs.
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Historically, Frank said, insurers have been reluctant to cover addiction treatment, because they saw patients with addictions as too expensive, and they saw it as a non-medical issue — so outside their purview.
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Even after California banned non-medical exemptions for vaccines, an unvaccinated teenage boy in the state still spread measles to a half dozen people in an outbreak last year, a new study reports.
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Proposition 264 allows adults over the age of 21 to use, possess, and transport up to an ounce of marijuana for non-medical purposes, and grow as many as six plants at home.
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The solution they came up with is an automated answering service that handles phone calls, texts and Facebook messages with an automated bot that can schedule doctors visits and answer non-medical questions.
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By and large the trend in recent years has been to make non-medical exemptions harder to obtain (by asking parents for more paperwork or to renew the request every year, for example).
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Anal bleaching is a non-medical procedure that involves topically applying a "blend of acids" to your skin which lessen the melanocytes, the melanin-forming cells that give your skin color, Gordon says.
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A woman holds her daughter with other mothers in a hallway, Thursday, May 2, 2019, at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, where the Senate was considering a bill ending non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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The position is a reversal from the Obama administration's stance, which laid out in an official memo that the federal government wouldn't interfere in states where non-medical use of marijuana is allowed.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation to bar the non-medical exemptions "minutes" after it was approved by the state legislature, the Associated Press reported Thursday, and it will go into effect immediately.
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Emergency physicians also support the prescribing of naloxone to at-risk patients (per SAMHSA recommendations), naloxone availability for first responders, and education of overdose recognition and safe naloxone administration by non-medical providers.
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Female Genital Mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) includes all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
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In California, before the regulation against non-medical exemptions became law as a result of the Anaheim measles outbreak, there was a tightening of vaccination exemption requirements that helped reduce refusals, he noted.
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This is essentially where a patient whose in a hospital could be discharged home and is medically fit to be discharged to go home but for non-medical reasons they don't go home.
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A 2016 study published in the Journal of Drug Abuse found that around 50% of students are offered "a prescription drug for non-medical purposes" by the time they reach their sophomore year.
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New York passed a bill Thursday that removes non-medical, namely religious, exemptions from school vaccination requirements amid one of the worst measles outbreaks the United States has faced in more than 25 years.
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Doulas provide non-medical labor and birth support, and they can also spend time helping people before and after they give birth, says Grace Nowakoski, a certified doula and owner of HELD Doula Services.
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"Colorado is ranked as one of the easiest places to obtain some of those personal exemptions, or non-medical exemptions, and I think that's probably played a role in where we are," Mullica said.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves removing or injuring parts of the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, is often considered a social norm in patriarchal societies where sex and women's sexuality are taboo.
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While reducing opioid prescriptions has undoubtedly stopped many new addictions, it has also led some patients and non-medical users to turn to illegal drugs, which are usually stronger, non-standardized and more dangerous.
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The company has signed up about a third of the roughly 200,000 medical marijuana customers in Canada, and Linton said he expected some 3 million Canadians to use legal non-medical pot next year.
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Dr. Sean O'Leary, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, said all non-medical exceptions to vaccines should be eliminated and that the benefits outweigh the risks.
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In 2015, California's then-governor, Jerry Brown, signed a bill that abolished non-medical exemptions, requiring almost all schoolchildren in the state to be vaccinated unless they have a medical reason for opting out.
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The companies were asked to establish a policy to phase out routine, non-medical use of antibiotics across their supply chains; specify clear targets and timelines for implementation; and report more transparently on their activities.
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So MacDonald started raising money from small donors and corporate sponsors to pay for up to 90 days and $3,000 of non-medical bill payments directly to creditors — mortgages, rent, car payments and other expenses.
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Maine has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, with 5 percent of kindergartners holding a non-medical exemption from vaccination, compared to a national average of 2 percent, according to CDC data.
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However, that would dramatically increase the odds of players sustaining catastrophic and/or fatal skull fractures; on the non-medical front, it would make the game look more like rugby than what we see today.
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Attackers were able to infiltrate SingHealth's system, and illegally access and copy what the company called the "non-medical personal particulars" of people who visited the clinics from May 2015 until July 4 this year.
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The country's defense forces began recruiting women to non-medical positions in 1992, yet only 2.5 percent of its more than 1 million personnel are women - most of them administrators, intelligence officers, doctors, nurses or dentists.
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He sold one of his two prized cellos (for $75,000, the cheaper one) to raise the funds to cover start-up franchise costs for Home Instead, which provides non-medical caregiving to elderly Americans in need.
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A smaller number — 473 percent — said they'd used only nicotine products, but the CDC also warned that there might be under-reporting of cannabis use since non-medical marijuana is still illegal in so many states.
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The price of non-medical cannabis has declined by an average of 1.7 percent a year since 1990 and stood at around C$7.50 a gram last year, probably due to increased supplies, the report said.
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"Cannabis use appears to increase rather than decrease the risk of developing non-medical prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder," said the study, led by Dr. Mark Olfson, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.
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About 1 in 5 GP visits in England is due to non-medical needs, such as loneliness, problems with unemployment or personal relationships, according to a 2015 survey carried out by the UK charity Citizens Advice.
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"The regulations for the non-medical system are being developed, and in developing the rules that will apply to testing, Health Canada will take into consideration the requirements that are in place today," said a spokesperson.
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Through its primary products — life insurance, annuities, and non-medical health products such as disability income insurance and long-term care insurance (LTCI) — the life insurance industry functions as a private provider of personal financial protection.
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"The opioid crisis that has featured in far fewer headlines but that requires equally urgent international attention is the non-medical use of the painkiller tramadol, particularly in Africa," the UNODC 2019 World Drug Report said.
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The researchers sifted through the United States' National Cancer Database to find folks who opted for at-home cancer treatments from non-medical professionals and refused the conventional treatment for four cancers: breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal.
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Of course, if they're in a non-adult-use or non-medical state, then at this point they only have access to hemp-derived CBD, which could be beneficial — again, depending why they are choosing to consume.
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The plaintiffs accuse Dignity Health of discriminating against Chamorro based on her gender, and also violating California medical laws that bar using non-medical criteria for approving sterilization surgeries and that restrict corporate meddling in medical decisions.
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Another recent survey of 1,000 Australian women found that only one respondent would consider terminating a pregnancy based on non-medical traits such as intelligence, and 80 percent specifically indicated that they would "definitely not" do so.
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The results can provide information about ancestry, non-medical traits like tongue curling, health risks like diabetes as well as how a person might respond to certain drugs, write the researchers in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Fibrosis claims: Nash said the phrase "50% fibrosis" was a "non-medical concept," and that the correct term was "50 percent lung function or 50 percent volume" in cases of lung disease, including cystic or pulmonary fibrosis.
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If so, the number of people Sessions might catch in his net would be huge, since more than half of all prescription medications used for non-medical purposes have been diverted by a family member or friend.
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The drugs involved in opioid overdose deaths (33,091) fall into different categories: prescription opioids prescribed to people in pain, prescription opioids diverted and used for non medical purposes, and illicit opioids such as heroin and synthetic fentanyl.
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On the other hand, "the large increases in C-section use to levels well over 30% in many countries, often for non-medical indications, is of concern given the risks for both women and children," he said.
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As the senior vice president in the oncology business unit of Astellas Pharmaceuticals, he used his father's frustrations as the inspiration for Astellas's C3 Prize, which launched last year to fund non-medical innovations in improving cancer care.
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Today's announcement includes over 100 health care providers all across the US. The non-medical-emergency medical transportation market is worth more than $3 billion, according to the Transit Cooperative Research Program, a federally funded independent research entity.
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Hack Back is one of a handful of social enterprises offering animal-assisted therapy in Britain as part of a wider movement to provide non-medical health and wellbeing services to communities where public spending often falls short.
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The FDA should not consider or approve additional biosimilar drugs – as it is poised to do this week – without first adopting clear policies and public guidance on interchangeability that ensure patient safety and discourage non-medical treatment switches.
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MAINE: 5 PERCENT UNVACCINATED Maine has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, with 5 percent of kindergartners holding a non-medical exemption from vaccination, compared to a national average of 2 percent, according to CDC data.
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I'm inclined to respect a child's right to say, 'NO,' to any adult forcing any kind of non-medical contact on them, so I told the other piercer I wouldn't be part of the ear piercing for this girl.
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" According to Facebook's Community Standards about what can and can't be posted to the platform, the company states that it "prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers and retailers to purchase, sell or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs and marijuana.
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The beauty brand is fictional, and all its products not for sale: the whole thing is a creative campaign to inspire discussion about "social" or "elective" egg freezing—where women choose to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons.
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If, say, a $500 emergency crops up and you have receipts for $500 worth of non-reimbursed medical outlays handy, submit those receipts to get a $500 check from your HSA to pay for that unexpected non-medical event.
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The Colorado House bill would require parents who wish to have their children exempted from mandatory vaccines for non-medical reasons submit a form in-person to the state or local heath department, Colorado Public Radio (CPR) reported Friday.
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The study, which was published in the journal PLOS Medicine on Tuesday, added up the conscientious vaccination exemptions (CVEs)—non-medical reasons to not get vaccinated—across the top 296 metropolitan areas in Texas schools between 299 and 21900.
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In one 2009 New England Journal of Medicine paper, researchers looked at the state-level rates of non-medical exemptions and found that, between 1991 and 2004, those rates increased from less than 0.98 percent to about 1.5 percent.
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The bill had passed the Democratic-controlled state House of Representatives last month, making Maine one of at least seven states considering ending non-medical exemptions amid the worst outbreak of measles in the United States in 25 years.
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"The limited data available indicate that the tramadol being used for non-medical purposes in Africa is being illicitly manufactured in South Asia and trafficked to the region, as well as to parts of the Middle East," it said.
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Black said that after her current career, she'd most want to focus on being a mother, though she's not ruling out cooking, writing, dancing, or being a doula (a non-medical professional who helps support mothers during pregnancy and childbirth).9.
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But the thing is, since anal bleaching is a non-medical procedure, that means a doctor typically isn't administering the treatment, says Cindy Barshop, the founder of V-Spot, a medi-spa in New York City that focuses on vaginal treatments.
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Shortly after his death, the Graves started The Lane Thomas Foundation, which helps cover travel and other non-medical expenses for families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants being treated at Omaha's Children's Hospital or Nebraska Medicine.
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It was no stranger to the black market in the US, a country with a history of non-medical use of fentanyl stretching back to the 225s—and, with 2000 million medical fentanyl prescriptions a year, many opportunities for illegal diversion.
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Both teams were required to create 45 kits for the testing that's set to commence early next year, evidence that they can be employed by non-medical professionals with no more training than what's available on their app walk-through.
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The non-medical practitioner, identified as Klaus R., is suspected of manslaughter in three cases and negligent injury in the case of two more patients who remain in serious condition, said Axel Stahl, senior prosecutor in the Krefeld prosecutor's office.
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Data from the Oregon Health Authority shows that of the 6900,2628 non-medical vaccine exemptions sent in last year, 28503,22019 were from parents who watched an online education video and printed a do-it-yourself form, according to The Oregonian.
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You were first arrested on my charges, and now, as the only non-medical victim to come forward, I testify to let the world know that you are a repulsive liar and that those treatments were pathetically veiled sexual abuse.
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Several West African countries have reported that tramadol is one of the most widely used drugs for non-medical purposes after cannabis, which remains by far the most popular globally, the report said, adding that reasons for using tramadol vary.
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Workers would have the ability to use it for "personal serious health conditions, caring for new children or family members with serious health conditions, or addressing medical or non-medical needs" caused by domestic violence or sexual assault, according to the Harris campaign.
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While many scientific studies demonstrate the importance of diet and exercise to health, to date there are no scientific studies that have evaluated CrossFit, specifically, as a "non-medical health care company" that can prevent chronic disease, which is how Glassman describes it.
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Through their fleet management software the team is taking their experience monitoring and managing fleets of delivery, campus, and non-medical emergency vehicles and translating that into a system where one day no one's in the driver's seat noticing a low battery warning.
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Schoolchildren who claimed a non-medical exemption prior to the law taking effect will be allowed to attend school if their parent or guardian provides a written statement from a healthcare professional indicating they've been informed of the risks of refusing immunization.
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The report, titled "Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices," focuses on security throughout the lifecycle of a device, emphasizing that robust cybersecurity is an ongoing process that requires maintenance and regular software updates, just like any non-medical piece of hardware would.
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One major factor in the measles' resurgence has been a decline in vaccination rates, with factors including families missing doctor's visits (in some reasons, possibly due to lack of access) and a troubling growth in those who ask for non-medical exemptions.
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Shortly after his death, parents Matt and Melissa Graves started The Lane Thomas Foundation, which helps cover travel and other non-medical expenses for families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants being treated at Omaha's Children's Hospital or Nebraska Medicine.
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Schoolchildren who claimed a non-medical exemption prior to the law taking effect will be allowed to attend school if their parent or guardian provides a written statement from a health care professional indicating they've been informed of the risks of refusing immunization.
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London-based artist Aida Silvestri has created a jarring series of "sculptural photo-works" to raise awareness of female genital mutilation — any procedure that "intentionally alters or causes injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons," according to the World Health Organization.
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"Cancer research and symptom research takes time and when you're in a constantly evolving landscape that exists on a non-medical level in terms of political and legal landscapes with something like medical marijuana these are the reasons why it will take time," Epstein said.
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The idea of securing our thoughts is a real concern with the introduction of brain-computer interfaces—devices that are controlled by brain signals such as EEG (electroencephalography), and which are already used in medical scenarios and, increasingly, in non-medical applications such as gaming.
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Mullica, an emergency room nurse, initially planned to introduce a bill that would ban non-medical exemptions altogether in Colorado public schools, a push several states have moved to implement as measles outbreaks continue to tear through American communities with high rates of unvaccinated children.
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"By moving forward with the legalisation of cannabis for non-medical purposes in disregard of its legal obligations and diplomatic commitments, the Government of Canada has contributed to weakening the international legal drug control framework and undermining the rules-based international order," the INCB said.
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Additional solutions are also needed to support family caregivers; to involve a wide variety of community organizations as partners in the care delivery process, especially around non-medical needs; and to address public and private strategies for financing delivery of long-term supports and services.
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The AMA argues that a federal judge should block North Dakota's rules, claiming that they "compel physicians and their agents to speak government-mandated messages that entail providing to their patients misleading or even patently false, non-medical information with which they disagree," according to the lawsuit.
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Researchers studied results of the California Healthy Kids Survey (which included 4778 transgender and 630,200 non-transgender students), examining their usage of cigarettes, tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy as well as non-medical use of prescription painkillers, diet pills, Ritalin or Adderall, and cold medicine.
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He is hoping to throw his support behind a candidate whose immigration policy will enable entrepreneurial companies like his franchise chain — which provides non-medical home-based care for seniors — to look for qualified workers in Mexico, to keep pace with the growth of the elderly population.
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Earlier this year, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 made changes in the Medicare program, allowing Medicare's managed care plans — Medicare Advantage — to provide additional services that have proven effective in improving quality of care and lowering costs, including non-medical services for patients with serious illness.
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"The large increases in C-section use – mostly in richer settings for non-medical purposes – are concerning because of the associated risks for women and children," said Marleen Temmerman, an expert from Aga Khan University in Kenya and Ghent University in Belgium who co-led the research.
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Sakara's newest product capitalizes on a shrinking stigma of marijuana in the U.S. After Colorado legalized the drug for recreational use in 2012, states have jumped to follow suit; after the November 8 election, eight states, including Washington, D.C., now allow for non-medical use of the drug.
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As part of its commitment, CVS plans to expand its Project Health program that offers free health and wellness screenings and will use these visits to identify social determinants of health, non-medical aspects of patients' lives such as their housing or education that can affect their health.
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"Sharp violated their right to privacy and breached its fiduciary duty in the most egregious way by secretly recording them, allowing non-medical personnel to view the recordings without making any effort to track who was viewing them, and then destroying some of the recordings," the complaint states.
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A common cultural practice across diverse regions of Africa, as well as Asia and the Middle East, FGM is categorized as the damaging or removal of girls' genital organs for non-medical reasons — a tradition believed to safeguard premarital virginity and promote modesty that can result in devastating complications.
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The NBER study concluded that combat exposure not only increases consumption of prescription narcotics and heroin, it also increases sedative and tranquilizer use for non-medical purposes and using opioids together with drugs like benzodiazepines, which also depress the central nervous system and increase the risk of overdose.
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These patients will be connected to a social prescribing link worker, a non-medical professional who will get to know the person, get to the root of their problems, co-develop a plan with them based on their own desires and link them to what resources they need.
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" Also on Twitter, Tom Inglesby, director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, wrote in a thread on Sunday that "members of the general public should wear non-medical fabric masks when going out in public in one additional societal effort to slow the spread of the virus down.
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The new study noted that C-section should be universally accessible -- as it can be life-saving in some cases -- but a rise in C-section for non-medical emergencies has become of concern because the procedure can pose risks, such as risk of infection or postpartum heavy bleeding.
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He added that for women who desire a non-medical and more natural birthing experience, those "modest clinical benefits" may not be "sufficient to warrant" an induced labor, and that's OK. The new study simply suggests that induction can be an option, while the ultimate birthing decision remains with the family.
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"Medical students, I would say, are very interested in public health and improving social determinants of health—one of them being access to health insurance," says Jerome Jeevarajan, 26, a neurology resident at the University of Texas-Houston, referring to non-medical factors that improve health, such as food or housing.
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The ability of clinicians to access and use comprehensive, real-time information about their patients, including information that captures the use of non-medical services such as homeless shelters, food banks, and harm reduction centers, will better enable clinicians to make decisions about what types of care may best help patients.
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In fact, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently held a joint advisory meeting where a majority of the experts there voted in favor of increasing the how much naloxone is given initially in an emergency overdose situations in the community setting – meaning non-medical areas like someone's home, i.e.
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Under the longstanding California Medical Practice Act, no corporate entity is allowed to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship or otherwise circumvent the decision of a licensed, medical professional for the "corporate practice of medicine" based on non-medical criteria, whether that be in service of a bottom line or a higher power.
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In a separate statement, the AAP says routine childhood vaccinations are integral to the public health infrastructure in the U.S. Most states allow children to be exempt from school-required immunizations; while the AAP supports medical exemptions, it views non-medical exemptions as inappropriate for individual health, public health and ethical reasons.
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In a hearing on the National Science Foundation (NSF), the country's leading non-medical research organization, Director France A. Córdova thanked the committee for record-high funding in 2019, and she reminded members that previous funding had led to major achievements, including technologies necessary for smartphones, weather radars and even sign language.
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The practice of FGM, defined by the World Health Organization as, "procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons," is a harmful practice carried out on an estimated 125 million girls and women around the world.
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"It is not the case that the world must choose between 'militarized' drug law enforcement on one hand and the legalization of non-medical use of drugs on the other; but rather to put health and welfare at the centre of a balanced drug policy," INCB President Werner Sipp said in a press statement.
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The department's legal reasoning for not defending the prohibition is technical, but the response highlights the degree to which there is consensus about the abhorrent nature of female genital mutilation, which the World Health Organization defines as cutting of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs, for non-medical reasons.
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Authorities in Singapore have previously said that in that attack, which they believed was state-linked, the non-medical personal details of about 1.5 million patients who visited clinics between May 2015 and July 4, 2018 were illegally accessed and copied, including those of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.
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Other voices in the conversation: Geoffrey Woo, CEO of HVMN, a human enhancement supplement maker: Manipulate metabolic health to live longer Josiah Zayner, biohacker and CEO of The-ODIN: Non-medical DIY biohacking can create a better high Arthur Caplan, NYU bioethicist, and Carolyn Neuhaus, NYU postdoctoral fellow: The future of fun is in biohackers' hands
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If this is behavior we are seeing with seven biosimilars on the market, then more steps need to be taken by the FDA to ensure that, as more treatments become available, stable patients are protected from non-medical switching, and that interchangeable products are shown to be safe and effective for patients in a marketplace with multiple biosimilars.
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We took a look at the 2020 50 best public colleges and universities as ranked by US News and World Report and gathered data on the average salary for non-medical instructional staff normalized to a standard nine-month contract for the 2017-2018 school year from the Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey results.
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"We are delighted to see that the expansion of HSA contribution limits, the lowering of the penalty for non-medical use, and all other provisions in the House bill were left intact for the Senate version," said John Young, senior vice president of consumerism at Alegeus, a technology firm that helps companies offer HSAs to the market.
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Arthur Caplan, NYU bioethicist, and Carolyn Neuhaus, NYU postdoctoral fellow: The future of fun is in biohackers' hands Sarah Richardson, co-founder of Microbyre: DNA is not a programming language Josiah Zayner, biohacker and CEO of The-ODIN: Non-medical DIY biohacking can create a better high Geoffrey Woo, CEO of HVMN, a human enhancement supplement maker: Manipulate metabolic health to live longer
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If you have any non-medical or non-student debt that is owed to New York, you can apply for a pause on your state debt collection temporarily using this online application or check out the Office of the Attorney General coronavirus website to find out more about the stipulations of the debt freeze, or call 1-800-771-7755.
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Last year, 1473 people were infected with measles — making it the second-worst measles year since 2000, when health officials determined that the disease had been eliminated in the US. This deadly infection can be prevented with the safe and effective measles vaccine, but not every state has closed the loopholes that allow parents to exempt their kids from vaccination for non-medical reasons.
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Other non-medical professionals have opted to treat themselves with Shuanghuanglian—a blend of Chinese skullcap, Japanese honeysuckle, and weeping forsythia—despite the fact that there's no evidence that it actually works (and plenty of evidence that it can cause diarrhea.) But one 25-year-old British man says that all he needed to get rid of his own case of coronavirus was a bottle of whisky.
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When it comes to choosing your products, look out for specific anti-yeast ingredients such as ketoconazole, zinc pyrithione, selenium sulfide, or piroctone olamine, which you can find in a range of anti-dandruff shampoos; Kingsley recommends that her customers try Philip Kingsley's Flaky Scalp Shampoo, which gets its impressive flake-removing power from piroctone olamine and has a pleasant non-medical, fruity scent.
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Jared PolisJared Schutz PolisColorado governor pokes fun at FaceApp Number of openly LGBTQ elected officials rose nearly 25 percent since 85033: report GOP gun rights activist arrested for flashing handgun at U.S. marshal MORE (D) said this week that he won't sign a bill that aims to increase childhood vaccination rates by decreasing non-medical vaccine exemptions without seeing some changes to the legislation.
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A new, legal synthetic opioid as deadly as fentanyl has been implicated in scores of deaths in the U.S. The appearance of isotonitazene in North America's narcotic food chain seems to confirm fears that last year's ban by China of the non-medical use, supply, and production of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl would fail to shut the door on the lab drugs fueling America's opioid crisis.
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The W.H.O. broadly categorizes four types of FGM, which describe a sweeping range of procedures performed on female genitalia: clitoridectomy (removing some or all of the clitoris), excision (cutting and/or removing the clitoris and inner vaginal lips), infibulation (sealing the vagina by cutting the clitoris, inner and outer vaginal lips and sewing them together), as well as any other alteration to the genital area for non-medical reasons.
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House Democrats and Republicans found common ground Tuesday in denunciating President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's proposed 2628 percent cut to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the country's leading backer of non-medical research.
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How Anti-Vaxxers Ruined Disneyland For Themselves (And Everyone Else)"The Happiest Place On Earth" is ground zero for a recent measles outbreak centered in…Read more Read"I think our study is a wake-up call for what we can expect in the coming months and years as vaccine coverage rates continue to decline in the 18 states that now allow non-medical or philosophical belief exemptions," said study co-author Peter Hotez.
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Many serious fetal abnormalities can't be detected until that point, and women who choose to terminate later in pregnancy for non-medical reasons generally fall into at least one of five categories, according to a 2013 study: They're raising children alone, struggling with depression or using illicit substances, facing intimate partner violence at home, contending with a host of state-mandated obstacles to access, or they're young and have never been pregnant before, meaning they may not recognize the symptoms of pregnancy.
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"But nutrition is perhaps one of the most important and neglected of all health disciplines, traditionally relegated to non-medical nutritionists rather than being, as we believe it deserves to be, a central part of medical training and practice" So while the report may not have been correct in all of its criticism of the science behind the nutrition guidelines, most of the concerns still stand, and it the controversy surrounding BMJ's investigation shows that even nutritional scientists can be as divided as the American public.
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To protect doctor patient preference in decision-making, we need to reduce cost and address barriers to breast cancer treatments, such as requiring that insurance companies and government programs eliminate the difference in cost structure between oral chemotherapy drugs and those that are given through IV. Other reforms should include precluding specialty drug tiers, preventing protocols that require step therapy (trying cheaper alternative drugs first to show they won't work before moving on to the next drug, which ultimately wastes time that can be critical for a cancer patient), and preventing switching of medications for non-medical reasons.
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As of this week, there have been 695 cases of measles in the U.S. across more than 20 states this…Read more ReadAmong other demands, Ratzan and his co-authors are calling for social media outlets and search engines to more aggressively monitor and police the dissemination of false anti-vax propaganda (including that vaccines can cause autism), which Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube have already begun to do; for doctors and health officials to find ways to convince reluctant or hesitant parents to vaccinate for the good of their children and community; and for governments to enact laws that strip non-medical exemptions for mandatory vaccinations.
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