Why are older adults more likely to get seriously ill or even die from pneumonia? It turns out the cause may have as much to do with the gut as it does with the lungs.
May 11, 2022
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The U.S. workforce has yet to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, and researchers are shedding light on one factor that may be contributing to the labor shortage in the U.S.: substance abuse.
May 2, 2022
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Patients who start abusing alcohol later in life—after age 40—may be doing so secondary to an underlying neurologic condition, such as frontotemporal dementia, according to findings by a team of researchers from the Icahn ...
Apr 5, 2022
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While scientists have broadly agreed that a fraction of the alcohol people consume is broken down before it reaches the bloodstream in a process called first-pass metabolism (FPM), they have been uncertain whether this process ...
Mar 22, 2022
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There are calls for changes to New Zealand's national suicide prevention strategy in light of new research linking harmful drinking to a heightened risk of suicide.
Mar 9, 2022
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Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a new pathway that helps explain how consuming too much alcohol causes damage to the liver, specifically mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol-associated liver disease.
Feb 14, 2022
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"Look at me!" we might say while attempting to engage our children. It turns out there is a neurochemical explanation for why looking at mom or dad actually helps kiddoes pay better attention.
Dec 17, 2021
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If we are to tackle future pandemics successfully, and reduce their impact on people's health and our global healthcare systems, we need to invest in developing fitter, healthier, more resilient populations that are less ...
Dec 7, 2021
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New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation finds that reported exposure by youth to tobacco marketing was associated with co-use of tobacco and cannabis on a given ...
Dec 6, 2021
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In the absence of consistent counseling from healthcare providers, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding are getting information on using cannabis from the retail marijuana workers known as budtenders, according to a study ...
Nov 15, 2021
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