Marijuana Relieves Chronic Pain, Research Shows. Three Puffs a Day Helped People With Nerve Pain, Study Finds. From the WebMD Archives. Aug. 30, 2010 -- Three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better, a Canadian team has found. ''It's been known anecdotally, says researcher Mark Ware, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia and family medicine at McGill University in Montreal.
In July of 1793, Roger Sherman died of typhoid at the age of 72. At the time he served as US Senator from Connecticut under the new constitution that he had helped to build; in the new nation, that he had spent most of his life defending and defining.
LONDON -- Like the patch of scorched earth around the baselines of Centre Court, Roger Federer's nearly 35-year-old body isn't quite what it used to be. Thirteen years ago, he won his first Grand Slam singles title here at the All England Club, and then, nine years later, his most recent. In the four years since, Federer's has become increasingly fragile, at times even brittle, despite reaching the final here the past two years.