by Zachary Sweger, Pennsylvania State University Penn State College of Medicine researchers are studying how cannabinoids may manage pain and promote bone healing in bone fractures. Fluorescence microscopy reveals how periosteal bone progenitors, which later develop into specialized bone cells that help bone tissue for, appear in healing tissue. Credit: Reyad Elbarbary/Penn StateCannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol...
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE February 13, 2023 Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. I visited a legal cannabis dispensary in Massachusetts a few years ago, mostly to see what the hype was about. There I was, knowing basically...
by Sue Benzuly, RN Anxiety disorder can make it hard to navigate life, but lately CBD has been touted as a natural treatment for the nerve-wracking condition. You can buy CBD almost anywhere—gas stations, spas, farmers markets and grocery stores. It comes in many forms—from gummies to tablets to tinctures to lozenges and patches. But...
by Sara Zaske, Washington State University Graphical abstract. Credit: Chemical Research in Toxicology (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00259 Cannabidiol or CBD, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, inhibits the metabolism of nicotine, new research has found, meaning it could help tobacco users curb the urge for that next cigarette. A team led by Washington State University researchers tested the effects of CBD and its...
by NYU Langone Health This microscope image of the brain region called the hippocampus shows the protein targeted by cannabis-derived CBD, GPR55 (red), and brain cells (blue) that send their extensions out to form the layers seen in the image. The interconnected nature of the hippocampus makes it a major site of for the initiation...
by University College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The short-term effects of vaporized cannabis do not differ between adolescents and adults, while cannabidiol (CBD) does not dampen the effects of the drug, finds a new study led by UCL and King’s College London researchers. For the experimental study published in Addiction, the researchers measured how regular cannabis...
by Kent E Vrana, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the last five years, an often forgotten piece of U.S. federal legislation—the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 Farm Bill—has ushered in an explosion of interest in the medical potential of cannabis-derived cannabidiol, or CBD. After decades of debate, the bill made it...
Cannabidiol (CBD) is already used to treat conditions such as chronic pain, inflammation, migraines, epilepsy, autoimmune diseases, depression, and anxiety. In the study in Frontiers in Pharmacology, the researchers report that when they fed estrogen-deficient mice CBD, a non-intoxicating compound extracted from hemp, the mice showed marked improvement in several areas. Their bloodstreams more readily disposed of...
by University of Waterloo Ball-and-stick model of the cannabidiol molecule. Credit: Public Domain Synthetic cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound also found in the cannabis plant, appears to prime the innate immune system of cells, potentially offering protection against pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. Researchers found that synthetic cannabidiol (CBD) augments the anti-viral response of cells to three...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has objected to New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notifications submitted by two developers of full-spectrum hemp extract products, telling the companies an earlier decision by the agency to consider cannabidiol (CBD) as a drug means it won’t consider their applications to sell the products as dietary supplements. Writing to...
