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Anchor lead: More middle and high schoolers are using tobacco products, Elizabeth Tracey reports Data from the national youth tobacco survey was released recently, and the results were sobering at best.  Enid Neptune, a lung expert at Johns Hopkins, describes …

December 18, 2014 – Tobacco Use in Kids Read more »

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Anchor lead: Can a new technique help answer the question of how repeated sports-related head injury impacts the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports The NFL and other sports organizations have a vested interest in determining the consequences of head injury experienced …

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Anchor lead:  A new imaging method may help identify specific brain changes relative to repeated head injury, Elizabeth Tracey reports A specialized form of PET imaging and use of a unique tracer to look at very specific markers of brain …

December 11, 2014 – Football and Brain Injury Read more »