Paula Span

1 week ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Paula Span

Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California, San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, struggled with insomnia. “She had problems falling asleep, and she’d wake up in the middle of the night,” he said. “So her daughter brought her some sleep gummies” — edible cannabis candies. kAm“$96 EC:65 2 8F>>J 27E6C 5:??6C 2?5 H2:E65 92=7 2? 9@FC[” w2?

1 week ago | thelcn.com | Paula Span

Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California, San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, struggled with insomnia. “She had problems falling asleep, and she’d wake up in the middle of the night,” he said. “So her daughter brought her some sleep gummies” — edible cannabis candies. kAm“$96 EC:65 2 8F>>J 27E6C 5:??6C 2?5 H2:E65 92=7 2? 9@FC[” w2?

1 week ago | baltimoresun.com | Paula Span

By Paula Span, KFF Health NewsBenjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California, San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, struggled with insomnia. “She had problems falling asleep, and she’d wake up in the middle of the night,” he said. “So her daughter brought her some sleep gummies” — edible cannabis candies. “She tried a gummy after dinner and waited half an hour,” Han said.

1 week ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Paula Span

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out of pocket. Her doctor and several pharmacies turned her down because she was below the recommended age at the time, which was 60. So in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled.

1 week ago | thestar.com.my | Paula Span

Kristin Kramer woke up early on a Tuesday morning 10 years ago because one of her dogs needed to go out. Then, a couple of odd things happened. When she tried to call her other dog, “I couldn’t speak,” she said. As she walked downstairs to let them into the yard, “I noticed that my right hand wasn’t working.”But she went back to bed, “which was totally stupid,” said Kramer, now 54, an office manager in Muncie, Indiana, United States.