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FDA Investigates Illegal Marketing of e-Cigarette Products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent letters to 21 e-cigarette companies, including the manufacturers and importers of Vuse Alto, myblu, Myle, Rubi and STIG, seeking information about whether...

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Flu Vaccine Reduces Risk of Hospitalization for Pregnant Women

Over the course of six flu seasons, getting a flu shot reduced a pregnant woman’s risk of being hospitalized from flu by an average of 40 percent. The findings come from a multi-country, CDC-coauthored...

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The Truth of Addiction Program

A. Scott Roberts provides an evidence-based and in-depth approach to addiction. This program reveals how research suggests that all addictions are the same within the brain and explains how the brain...

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Alzheimer’s-like Brain Disorder Newly Defined

A recently recognized brain disorder that mimics clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease has for the first time been defined with recommended diagnostic criteria and other guidelines for advancing...

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FDA and CDC Investigate e-Cig Respiratory Illness

Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working tirelessly to investigate the distressing incidents of severe respiratory disease...

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Nourianz Approved for Parkinson’s Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Nourianz (istradefylline) tablets as an add-on treatment to levodopa/carbidopa in adult patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experiencing “off”...

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Teen Vaping Doubles in Past Two Years

Data from the 2019 Monitoring the Future Survey of eighth, 10th and 12th graders show alarmingly high rates of e-cigarette use compared to just a year ago, with rates doubling in the past two years....

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REM Sleep May Prevent Information Overload

Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made. Now, in a study of mice, a team of Japanese and U.S. researchers show that it may also be a time when the...

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NIH to Investigate Cannabis Use for Pain Relief

Despite a lack of robust evidence, cannabinoids — such as CBD — are often assumed to be safe and effective in managing pain and used for such purposes in real-world settings. Now, nine new research...

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Gene Regulators Work Together to Raise Risk of Schizophrenia

Researchers have discovered that gene expression regulators work together to raise an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia. Schizophrenia-like gene expression changes modeled in human neurons...

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Newly ID’d Antibodies Could Lead to Better Flu Treatments and Vaccines

A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to better treatments and vaccines against influenza, according to a paper published this week in Science. Researchers supported by the National...

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Gene Mutation Reveals Possible Alzheimer’s Treatment

A study funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), found that an individual at high risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease remained dementia-free for many years beyond what was...

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Permanent Hair Dye and Straighteners May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

Scientists have found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who don’t use these products. The study published...

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New Clinical Trial to Compare Multiple Sclerosis Treatments

A clinical trial has begun testing an experimental stem cell treatment against the best available biologic therapies for severe forms of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). The trial, sponsored by the...

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First Coronavirus Case Detected in US

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the first case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States in the state of Washington. The patient recently returned...

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Drinking and Smoking During Pregnancy Increases SIDS Risk

Children born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester of pregnancy have a 12-fold increased risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)  compared to those unexposed or only...

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Breastfeeding, Pregnancy Lower Risk of Early Menopause

Women who breastfed their infants exclusively for seven to 12 months may have a significantly lower risk of early menopause than their peers who breastfed their infants for less than a month,...

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Coronavirus Can Last Hours in Air, or Days on Surfaces

The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and...

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More Daily Steps Leads to Lower Mortality

In a new study, higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality risk from all causes. The research team also found that the number of steps a person takes each day, but not the intensity...

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Will You Have Immunity After Recovering from Covid-19?

As the global number of COVID-19 cases soars, there are a few thousand reasons to be hopeful: As of Monday, March 23, over 100,000 people across the globe have recovered from the novel coronavirus. We...

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