Morphine is an opioid medication often used to relieve severe pain in cancer and some other diseases. When prescribed by a physician appropriately for relief of pain, it is a blessing to those whose symptoms are relieved, and to the families of those patients who had suffered watching their loved one in agony.
Earliest sign of human habitation in Canada may have been found. Possible 13,800-year-old fishing weir found in ocean near B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands. By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press Posted: Sep 23, 2014 10:46 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 23, 2014 6:01 PM ET.
The phrase early civilizations usually conjures up images of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and their pyramids, mummies, and golden tombs. In the vast Indus River plains (located in what is today Pakistan and western India), under layers of land and mounds of dirt, archaeologists discovered the remains of a 4,600 year-old city.