Morphine is an opioid medication often used to relieve severe pain in cancer and some other diseases. When prescribed by a physician appropriately for relief of pain, it is a blessing to those whose symptoms are relieved, and to the families of those patients who had suffered watching their loved one in agony.
Earliest sign of human habitation in Canada may have been found. Possible 13,800-year-old fishing weir found in ocean near B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands. By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press Posted: Sep 23, 2014 10:46 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 23, 2014 6:01 PM ET.
US History/Pre-Columbian. Human civilization in the Americas probably began in the last ice age, when prehistoric hunters crossed a land bridge between the Asian and North American continents. Civilizations in North America, Central America, and South America had different levels of complexity, technology, and cohesiveness. Some of the most powerful and organized societies occurred in South and Central America. These cultures developed writing, allowing them to spread and dominate. They created some of the largest cities in the Ancient world. North American cultures were more fragmented and less unified.