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Mumbai, June 3 (IANS) Actress Rakul Preet Singh took to social media on Thursday to express that she misses being on film sets, at a time when shooting is mostly stopped owing to the ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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For MedPage Today s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare.
Here, we interview Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, vice president for Health Promotion, university chief wellness officer, and professor and dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
The media has constantly referred to healthcare professionals as heroes throughout the pandemic. As dean of the College of Nursing at OSU, do you worry that this creates an expectation that clinicians put everyone else first?
Jun 03 2021
Harnessing the therapeutic benefits of cannabis is not a new concept, with historians estimating the flowering plant has been cultivated for medicinal purposes since 500 BC. While cannabis has endured a shady reputation, over the past decade a cannabinoid called CBD has won the attention of medical researchers around the world. Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a naturally occurring compound found in the cannabis plant with known anxiolytic properties.
“CBD has shown therapeutic efficacy in a range of animal models of anxiety and stress, reducing both behavioural and psychological and physiological (e.g., heart rate) measures of stress and anxiety,” asserts the National Institute on Drug Abuse.