American Pain Society. Summary: The growing body of evidence that marijuana (cannabis) may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in The Journal of Pain reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana. Researchers examined whether marijuana produces analgesia for patients with neuropathic pain.
Ron O'Neal. Ron O'Neal. Ron O'Neal, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 66, spent most of his professional life trying to live down his role of the bad-ass Youngblood Priest in Superfly (1972), one of the key blaxploitation movies of the decade.
McCall died of AIDS-related brain cancer last November, 20 months later, at age 33. Shaun McGill and Brian Pockar both died in their early 30's. The deaths of McCall and Pockar, the three-time Canadian men's champion, were officially reported by the Canadian Figure Skating Association as AIDS-related.