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The legislation would allow a voluntary medication assistant to administer seizure medication to a child if a nurse isn't available.

The legislation would authorize trained volunteers at schools to give emergency medication to a child having a seizure.

Proponents say that the Seizure Safe Schools will raise awareness and implement a uniform standard of care.

Thursday, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Study Commission heard from two highly respected medical expert witnesses with widely divergent views on the wisdom of passing medical marijuana legislation. Bertha K. Madras is a professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and the chair of the Division of Neurochemistry at Harvard Medical School, She served as … Continued

I have lived and worked in rural Alabama as a pediatrician since 1980. I have participated in the expansion of Medicaid for children up to age 19. I am very proud to say that because of Medicaid and the Children’s health Insurance Program now only 2 percent of Alabama’s children are uninsured. Preventive care has increased … Continued