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By Dan Levine and Sheila Dang (Reuters) – U.S. government researchers have found that a widely prescribed asthma drug originally sold by Merck & Co (NYSE:) may be linked to serious mental health problems for some patients, according to a scientific presentation reviewed by Reuters. The researchers found that the…
This week, a new scientific paper sent a ripple through the world of child psychology.Researchers at the University of Washington published brain scans of teenagers taken three years apart, in 2018 and 2021.The team expected significant findings, since the second scans were taken after all of the kids had their…
Russia’s biggest problem isn’t related to sanctions or its diminished energy trade. Its greatest dilemma is that it is losing its mostly highly skill workers, who are fleeing amid the third year of grinding conflict in Ukraine.Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School, foresees a grim future ahead…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shanna Hayes, who is a special education teacher in the DC metro area, owes more than $150,000 in loans, and has worked with the Student Debt Crisis Center. It has been edited for length and clarity.As a kid in upstate New…
Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at data from more than 130,000 American nurses over nearly four decades of follow-up.They found that people who ate about a quarter of a serving of processed meat daily (about two servings a week) on average had a 14%…
Published in 2018, and funded by the National Institute on Aging, the blockbuster study — which examined the eating patterns of over 900 older adults living around Chicago — showed that those who ate about one or two cupfuls of salad greens a day, including spinach, kale, collards, and lettuce,…
Most Americans think 81-year-old President Biden is just too old to be president.But brain aging experts say the candidates’ chronological ages are, to some extent, a red herring.”There’s this widespread belief that older people lose it, but it’s really less to do with chronological age per se, and more to…
Once, chicken nuggets were a convenient, popular dinner option for Dr. W. Taylor Kimberly and his family. But after studying ultra-processed foods in more detail, and seeing how they affect the brain, he’s switched to grilled chicken instead.Kimberly, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a neurologist at…
Brain-eating worms? Not likely.A shocking report in The New York Times on Wednesday revealed that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested in a 2012 deposition that doctors had found a dead worm in his brain.In the court proceeding — part of his divorce from his second wife —…
Elon Musk and David Sacks hosted an elite dinner for billionaires that got political, Puck reported.Musk has been flexing his political influence but has yet to endorse a presidential candidate.In recent years, Musk has lambasted policies by Democratic politicians and endorsed Republicans. Elon Musk, at an exclusive April dinner, commiserated…
