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What should someone who is looking to overcome an opioid addiction do? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Opioid overdose deaths reached their highest rate ever in the US in the last 12 months, with a new study showing that expanding prescribing medications like naloxone, doesn’t help. What can stem this tide? Eric Strain, a substance use disorders …
Deaths from drug overdoses have climbed to the highest level ever, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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 …
Opioid overdose deaths have skyrocketed alongside pandemic deaths, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can a high fat diet keep seizures under control for people with epilepsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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 …
The common condition epilepsy can be helped with a special diet, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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 …
The ketogenic diet is turning 100, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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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