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Deaths from drug overdoses topped 92,000 over the previous twelve months, the CDC has reported. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says the vast majority of those deaths were due to opioids. Strain: That’s a dramatic …

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Even as Covid deaths begin to climb again nationally, the most recent data on drug overdose deaths shows a dramatic increase in the last year. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, reviews the data. Strain: The …

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The ketogenic diet is a very high fat and very low carbohydrate diet that helps both children and adults with epilepsy control their seizures, and the diet is now celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic …

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It’s the 100th anniversary of the so-called ‘ketogenic’ diet, which helps to control epilepsy in children and adults, and can even allow some of them to stop taking medications for the condition. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic diet expert …

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The ketogenic diet, which relies on fats and proteins as energy sources and avoids carbohydrates, actually began 100 years ago as a means to control epilepsy in both adults and children and was also used for a host of other …

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Among doctors who specialize in cancer treatment, only very few broached the subject of end of life decisions with their patients, even when an analysis of recordings of their encounters pointed toward an opportunity to do so, a recent study …

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Black women often experience breast cancers that are more advanced at the time of diagnosis, and may be more difficult to treat. A recent study looked for the presence of different genes among Black and white women with breast cancer …

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