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Researchers link depression to deficiencies of specific gut microbes

Feb 5, 2019

Researchers have linked mental health problems such as depression to deficiencies of two specific gut microbes, in the first population-level research on the relationship between mental health and the gut micro...

Purdue officials pushed for high-dose, long-term opioid prescriptions, lawsuit says

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Feb 3, 2019

Health, Science

A new lawsuit filed against Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the makers of OxyContin, accuses former company president Richard Sackler of directing the company to promote high-doses of the opioid painkiller, according t...

Cholesterol-lowering statins show benefits for those over 75

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Feb 2, 2019

Health, Science

Thousands of lives would be saved if more people over the age of 75 took cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, a large new review of studies suggests, according to the BBC. "There has been a longstanding contro...

Study suggests excessive screen time sets back childhood development

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Jan 28, 2019

Health, Science

Toddlers who spend too much time on devices like cellphones and tablets perform don’t perform as well on developmental tests later in their childhood, according to a new study. The tests considered performance ...

Teenager with brain tumor among the first to receive proton beam therapy in UK

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Jan 26, 2019

Health, Innovation, Science

A teenager with a rare brain tumor is set to receive proton beam therapy, as one of the first patients to receive the treatment in the UK, according to the Independent. He is the first UK patient to go public w...

Canada’s new food guidelines reject dairy in favor of a plant-based diet

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Jan 24, 2019

Health, Policy, Science

New dietary guidelines from the Canadian government have abandoned recommending daily dairy consumption, in the first update to the food guide since 2007, according to BBC News. The guide includes dairy in a ca...

Exercise keeps the brain sharp through aging, even with dementia

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Jan 19, 2019

Health, Science

During aging, physical activity can help to keep cognitive faculties functioning, even after the onset of dementia, according to new research published in the journal Neurology. While researchers have long o...

New fitness-tracking patch analyzes sweat to monitor health

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Jan 18, 2019

Health, Innovation, Science

A new wearable device can analyze sweat to measure health and fitness markers, and could reach the market within a year, according to The New York Times. A new advance in the technology was detailed in the jour...

New science-based diet aims to solve both global health and environmental crises

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Jan 17, 2019

Environment, Health, Science

A new diet could prevent millions of early deaths and promote sustainable food production that can feed the world’s rapidly growing population, according to the international team of scientists that developed t...

Measles is making a comeback, thanks to the anti-vaccination movement

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Jan 15, 2019

Health, Opinion, Science, World

A new outbreak of measles in the New York City area, among the largest in decades, shows how whole communities are put at risk when parents refuse to vaccinate their kids. Vaccines are only truly successful as ...