A medical angle to recent and past mainstream media and local news with a view to highlight lessions from the story that can help good health as well as strategic leadership insights into everyday things.
Your doctor will provide the optimal dose that will improve pain relief and function while making sure there is minimal euphoria or cognitive impairment. It is therefore usual for your doctor to do a gradual dose titration. This is because even low doses of low-THC cannabis can cause significant cognitive impairment in some people.
Medical cannabis has shown promise in treating the following conditions Continue reading Medical Marijuana (2)
Marijuana, Cannabis, Ganja, Pot are different names for the same substance. Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes for at least 4000 years. More recently in Canada and some states in the USA, Medical Marijuana is now being used to treat different ailments and with good success too. Continue reading Medical Marijuana (1)
Gone are the days when businesses relied on traditional business intelligence-based hindsight reporting. These days successful businesses employ sophisticated predictive models. They look at historical transactions and incorporate the pertinent variables, thereby enabling a more accurate forecast of potential churn and customer loyalty. Continue reading Analytics for Business Owners
Gout is a very common cause of tremendous acute pain and ill health. It is uncommon in young women (but may present as chronic arthritis in elderly women) and more common in blacks than Caucasians. It is, however, rarely fatal.
Gout is from the Greek work ‘gutta’ which means ‘drop of evil humor’. It causes arthritis, soft tissue mass, and kidney disease (from renal stones/failure). Continue reading Gout
An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes the risks of starting up and operating a business. Entrepreneurs provide new goods or services that will meet people’s needs and wants, or solve their problems.
In essence, entrepreneurs solve meaningful problems. This is only possible by having the right mentality, determination and by delivering an excellent execution. In fact, in business, execution is everything. Continue reading Entrepreneurship for the Potential Entrepreneur
A lot of us have experienced or known someone with nose bleeds (epistaxis). Nose bleeds are usually a benign problem, but they can also be life-threatening. It is very common in the young (less than ten years) and also the old (more than fifty years). Continue reading When the Nose Bleeds (Epistaxis)
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects speech and language development. It also affects social development and these may manifest as lack of peer relationship, failure to use eye contact amongst other things. Behaviors are also affected as people with autism display stereotypical behaviors. Often times they are irritable and may spontaneously hand-flap, ‘rock’- flexing the neck forward-backward and a host of other inflexible rituals and routines.
Parents should seek medical attention if by 6 months the baby has not started expressing facial gestures of warmth or smiles Continue reading Unravelling AUTISM
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person (more than anyone else in the world). The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most are packaging and junk mail. In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space Continue reading 6 Steps of Paper Recycling…the possibilities are endless!
1, Wash vegetables and fruit in a bowl, not under the tap – then use the leftover water to water houseplants.
2. Keep a bottle of water in the fridge so you don’t have to run taps until the water is cold.
3. Do NOT leave the tap running when brushing your teeth, shaving or soaping your hands.
4. Fill your kettle with only the amount of water you need which will also save energy.
5. Put cotton wool in the bin rather than flush them down the toilet. Continue reading 25 Tips to Reduce Water Consumption
In his book “Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy”, Edmondson identifies scoping, structuring and sorting as the critical steps necessary to create successful teams.
The first step in any teaming scenario is scoping out the challenge, determining, what expertise is needed, tapping collaborators, and outlining roles and responsibilities. Continue reading How to Create Successful Teams at Work