Marijuana Relieves Chronic Pain, Research Shows. Three Puffs a Day Helped People With Nerve Pain, Study Finds. From the WebMD Archives. Aug. 30, 2010 -- Three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better, a Canadian team has found. ''It's been known anecdotally, says researcher Mark Ware, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia and family medicine at McGill University in Montreal.
In July of 1793, Roger Sherman died of typhoid at the age of 72. At the time he served as US Senator from Connecticut under the new constitution that he had helped to build; in the new nation, that he had spent most of his life defending and defining.
AUSTIN - The world's oldest living World War II veteran turned 111 on Thursday. Richard Overton celebrated his birthday with a lunch party at the University of Texas club on Thursday. The 111-year-old served in the Pacific Theater with the 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion from 1942 to 1945. 111, that's pretty old ain't it, Overton said.