I had to miss a class here and there due to brain injuries that cause headaches from active duty service, if I told everyone it may happen prior to starting each session? that is my main reason for not teaching so far, I don’t wish to let people down if I take on the challenge. any suggestions?

ucla’s Dr. Charles Grob discusses his research into the psychiatric and medical uses of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, and cancer victim Pam Sakuda relates her feelings on why hallucinogens are kept from the public. Related: A medical use for magic mushrooms – Johns Hopkins researchers reported in 2006 that the hallucinogen psilocybin, otherwise known as the sacred mushroom, caused a profound mystical experience in the majority of a group of 36 volunteers who took the drug in a laboratory setting. Two years later, the researchers re-interviewed the volunteers and found that the spiritual effects of the experience appear to last for more than a year. – latimesblogs.latimes.com This video is a clip from AMERICAN DRUG WAR: the last white hope – www.americandrugwar.com

City heightens efforts to tax some rentals
Goal is for June ballot measure What is a hotel? That is the roughly $200,000 question Del Mar voters may have to answer come summertime. The city is moving quickly to put a measure on the June ballot that would extend the definition of a hotel to short-term vacation rentals so that it can apply its 11.5 percent transient occupancy tax to this type of lodging. “The fact that we’re surrounded by …

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Planning input asked
WESTFIELD – City officials want to continue to tap the public support and input from 2009 that shaped a new master plan for revitalization of the city’s downtown.

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What’s lurking in the shadows?
Ghost hunting is tedious.

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Prison ships will not end jail overcrowding
Prison ship policy shock splits Tories “, News), they clearly have not done their homework. Less than a year ago, the Ministry of Justice announced that it had investigated whether prison ships were a…

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MAP International Provides $10 Million in Essential Medicines and Medical Supplies to Haiti Relief
Essential medicines (http://www.map.org/?utm_medium=OPR&utm_source=PRWeb&utm_content=Jan10) and medical supplies totaling $10 million have been provided by MAP, International for the relief effort in Haiti. (PRWeb Jan 31, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3542444.htm

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Almost every pregnant woman has several routine physicals on record, but there’s never been one similar study of fathers? Shouldn’t there be?

Unless the couple expresses health concerns, do new fathers ever routinely have a health check up, as part of an overall medical, family planning record?

There seem to be no comparable studies done at that stage of life, other than a general verbal questionnaire, or blood tests prior to the marriage.

Are men who have volunteered for any drug testing programs monitored after they father children, for example? Or who have been exposed to industrial chemicals? It seems that there are no actual records to refer to, unless they coincide with an individual corporate health program, which would be for 40-year-old men who have started their families years before that point. I’m thinking about prevention being said to be better than cures, but there is no data on paternal health at conception?

I am considering volunteering overseas as a physician assistant. I would go anywhere, but would like to go to Africa or South America. Has anyone done a simular thing? Was it a good experience for you? Is it worth the expense involved? As a woman, do you think such a thing is safe?

Volunteer opportunities
Volunteers’ foreign language skills can help immigrant females overcome the ravages of rape, human trafficking, domestic abuse and other forms of violence.

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Domestic violence victims seek help
The poor economy has shown its effects in many areas of people’s lives, but women’s shelters throughout the city are starting to see a more dramatic change. The victims who seek shelters for help, specifically those that are geared toward women of certain ethnic backgrounds, are seeing the biggest changes. Apna Ghar, which translates to “Our Home,” [...]

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Jewish students help repair Ike damage
GALVESTON Students from Columbia, Brandeis, Yeshiva and Rutgers universities recently made their way to Galveston to help rebuild.

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Nominees sought for volunteer awards
Nominations for Cheers for Volunteers award winners are due at the Volunteer Center office, 650 N. Main St., by 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25. The awards will be presented at the annual Cheers for Volunteers awards banquet to be held May 6 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, according to a program press release. Cheers for Volunteers is an opportunity to recognize some of our outstanding volunteers in Fond du …

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Volunteers from multiple nations help provide medical care to Haitians
In a hot, dimly lighted tent at University Hospital, in Haiti’s quake-stricken capital , a team made up of paramedics from Brooklyn, a doctor from California and a 22-year-old Army medic from Texas tugged at the bandages of a man who was screaming as the surgical wound on his left arm hemorrhaged.

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