🏥 Should marijuana be treated like medicine?
A growing body of research has raised important questions about state medical marijuana programs, including whether many approved conditions are supported by strong scientific evidence and whether current regulations adequately protect patients.
Key questions include:
🔬 Are medical claims backed by rigorous clinical trials?
📋 Are products standardized, tested, and dosed like other medicines?
⚠️ Are patients fully informed about potential risks, including dependence, cognitive impairment, and mental health effects?
🏛️ Should medical cannabis programs be reassessed to better align with evidence-based medicine?
As medical marijuana programs continue to expand, policymakers and healthcare professionals face an important challenge: ensuring patient care is guided by science, not marketing or politics.
Read more: iasic1.org/reassessing-state…#MedicalCannabis#Cannabis#EvidenceBasedMedicine#PublicHealth#PatientSafety#HealthPolicy#MentalHealth#CannabisAwareness#ScienceMatters#Healthcare#BrainHealth
AIIMS has evolved from being a single institution of excellence to becoming a national healthcare network.
The real opportunity now is to ensure every AIIMS becomes a catalyst for:
→ Better patient outcomes
→ Stronger medical education
→ High-quality research
→ Regional healthcare equity
Building hospitals is important.
Building systems that consistently deliver quality care is transformational, @mygovindia#AIIMS#HealthcareTransformation#HealthPolicy#MedicalEducation#PublicHealth
AIIMS has evolved from being a single institution of excellence to becoming a national healthcare network, @MoHFW_INDIA
The real opportunity now is to ensure every AIIMS becomes a catalyst for:
→ Better patient outcomes
→ Stronger medical education
→ High-quality research
→ Regional healthcare equity
Building hospitals is important.
Building systems that consistently deliver quality care is transformational.
#AIIMS#HealthcareTransformation#HealthPolicy#MedicalEducation#PublicHealth
NFHS-6 shows #India’s Social Determinants of Health (SDH) story: gains in nutrition, schooling, water, sanitation, electricity, clean fuel, financial inclusion and health coverage. But progress is uneven; quality and continuity now matter as much as coverage: @oommenor-f.org/39082#Healthcare#HealthPolicy
Three decades after the PC&PNDT Act, the ban on sex selection remains necessary. But India must ask whether an ultrasound-centred law, designed for one technological moment, has become misaligned with modern medicine: K. S. Uplabdh Gopal or-f.org/39167#PublicHealth#GenderJustice#HealthPolicy
Perspective by Edward T. Ryan, MD, Firdausi Qadri, PhD, and Julia A. Lynch, MD: Global Cholera-Control Efforts — Progress and Remaining Challenges nej.md/4xqySOL#GlobalHealth#HealthPolicy
NFHS-6 shows #India’s Social Determinants of Health (SDH) story: gains in nutrition, schooling, water, sanitation, electricity, clean fuel, financial inclusion and health coverage. But progress is uneven; quality and continuity now matter as much as coverage: @oommenor-f.org/39082#Healthcare#HealthPolicy
Three decades after the PC&PNDT Act, the ban on sex selection remains necessary. But India must ask whether an ultrasound-centred law, designed for one technological moment, has become misaligned with modern medicine: K. S. Uplabdh Gopal or-f.org/39167#PublicHealth#GenderJustice#HealthPolicy
The rise of cash-pay healthcare is creating a dangerous 3-tier system. As more people are priced out, what's the structural fix? Are we accepting this stratification as the new normal? #Healthcare#HealthcareCosts#HealthPolicy
NFHS-6 gives reasons for optimism, not complacency. Stunting is down, immunisation is up, and institutional delivery is high. But breastfeeding has declined, C-sections have risen further, wasting persists, and adult malnutrition now cuts both ways: @oommenor-f.org/39082#Healthcare#HealthPolicy