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September 2018

Sep 26 2018
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Latest Research Offers Alternative to Addictive Opioids

By | Uncategorised

  The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is a growing national crisis affecting public health and creating an enormous burden on the healthcare system.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total economic impact of prescription opioid misuse in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.

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Sep 14 2018
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How Does Talking to Babies Make Them Smarter?

By | social issues, children, education, parenting

Young children who are regularly engaged in conversation by adults may have stronger connections between two developing brain regions critical for language, according to a study of healthy young children that confirms a hypothesis registered with the Open Science Framework. This finding, published in JNeurosci, suggests that talking with children from an early age could promote their language skills.

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Sep 05 2018
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The Link Between Vegetables and Colon Cancer

By | health, diet

Could a diet rich in green vegetables help prevent colon cancer? Chemicals produced by vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli could help to maintain a healthy gut and prevent colon cancer, a recent study from the Francis Crick Institute shows.  The study, published in Immunity, shows that mice fed on a diet rich in indole-3-carbinol (I3C) were protected from gut inflammation and colon cancer. 

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