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Cash may convince some smokers to quit

10 years 1 month ago
Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money the longer they avoid cigarettes might help get more people to kick the habit than cessation advice on its own, a recent study suggests.

How do EpiPens work?

10 years 1 month ago
The price of EpiPens has increased more than 400 percent since 2007.
Sara G. Miller, Staff Writer

Weight loss supplement may induce mania in certain people

10 years 1 month ago
The weight loss supplement garcinia cambogia may have the unwanted side effect of inducing mania, which is a feeling of an abnormally high level of energy, agitation and euphoria, according to a recent report of three separate cases
Sara G. Miller, Staff Writer

Accidental overdoses killed 8 people a day in Ohio last year

10 years 1 month ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed the total overdose fatalities to a record high, the state reported Thursday.

Scientists wake comatose patient using only ultrasound

10 years 1 month ago
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are reporting on the "remarkable" recovery of a 25-year-old man in a coma following a simple and brief exposure to low-energy ultrasound targeting the thalamus, the part of the human brain that is typically impaired after a coma.
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
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