Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Scientific Test
(by Jon Hamilton for NPR) Want to be smarter? More focused? Free of memory problems as you age? If so,
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Month: October 2016
When The Blues Won’t Let You Be
(By Anna Gorman for California Healthline) LOS ANGELES — Rini Kramer-Carter has tried everything to pull herself out of her
Read MoreYoung Boy’s Struggle To Survive Sparked Push For Drugs For Terminally Ill
(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) At age 7, Josh Hardy became the poster child for a movement to
Read MoreWhy fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo
(By Allison Bond for STAT) The opioid crisis just keeps getting worse, in part because new types of drugs keep
Read MoreProstate cancer treatment needs to get more personalized
(By Brian Helfand for STAT) As a group, men who choose not to treat their early-stage prostate cancer aren’t any
Read MoreAnother Insurer Leaves Obamacare Marketplace Exchange
Harken Health Insurance Co. a startup and part of UnitedHealth Group Inc. will not offer individual plans through Obamacare exchanges
Read MoreWhen a Nobel Prize brings a shower of hype: the roller coaster ride of RNAi
(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) When the Nobel Prizes are announced next week, the winning biomedical discovery is certain to
Read MoreFormer Insys sales manager is arrested in opioid kickback scheme
(By Ed Silverman for STAT) Yet another former Insys Therapeutics sales manager has been arrested in connection with a scheme
Read MoreRats That Reminisce May Lead To Better Tests For Alzheimer’s Drugs
(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) What rats can remember may help people who forget. Researchers are reporting evidence that rats
Read MoreCDC Urges Americans To Get A Flu Shot As Soon As Possible
(By Rob Stein for NPR) Federal health officials are urging all Americans to get their flu shots as soon as
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