Cannabis Relief?

By GREG TINDLE South Wales Echo

SEXUALLY-abused girls are more likely to develop eating disorders in later life – even when pregnant, according to research. Out of 10,000 women, 18 per cent said they had experienced unwanted sexual contact before the age of 16 and were twice as likely to show symptoms of an eating disorder.

And the research into the causes of bulimia, anorexia and related symptoms, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggested it could affect the health of their children.

CANNABIS can significantly ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis, a study has revealed.

Taken in medicine form, the Class C drug was shown to lessen the pain of movement and pain at rest and improve quality of sleep and ease inflammation.

Scientists insist the element of the drug which creates a potential ‘high’ is an essential therapeutic component of the treatment and cannot be removed.

The authors of the study are now calling for a larger trial to back up their findings to help the 600,000 rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in the UK.

MARITAL happiness is key to fighting off flu, a study has found.

The UK university investigation also discovered that bereavement has a negative effect on the body’s immune response to the annual flu jab.

Dr Anna Phillips, the lead investigator on the study, said: ‘We know that those aged over 65 are more at risk of the impact of flu, but this research shows that within that group, those that have been recently bereaved, or those that are single, divorced or widowed are more at risk that those who are in a happy marriage.