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It may be too late to stop Alzheimer’s in people who already have some mental decline. But what if a treatment could target the very earliest brain changes while memory and thinking skills are still intact, in hope of preventing the disease? Two big studies are going all out to try. Clinics throughout the United States and some other countries are signing up participants — the only... READ MORE
Two warm, filling soups good for cold days
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Eating disorders can eat away at all of us
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Study seeks those regularly using opioids
According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 21 and 29 percent of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them, and 8 to 12 percent become addicted. Even worse, each day more than 115 people in the U.S. die after overdosing on opioids. Faced with these daunting statistics, the National Institutes of Health is trying to better understand just how opioids... READ MORE
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Most of us don’t need fish oil supplements
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Activist is consummate communicator
In nominating Bonnie Atwood for the 2016 Communicator of Achievement Award given by Virginia Professional Communicators, Gail Kent, a Newport News businesswoman, wrote: “Bonnie Atwood has accomplished so much, you’d swear she had skates strapped to her feet. Oh, wait — she did have skates on her feet!” She was referring to one of Atwood’s early accomplishments, a stint with the ... READ MORE
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Walnuts may be the healthiest nut of all
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Lifting barriers to living organ donation
Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumor was too advanced, they said — even though Goudge had a friend ready to donate, no matter those odds. “I have a living donor. I’m not taking away from anyone. I’m trying to save my own life,” she pleaded. Finally, the Los Angeles woman found a hospital on the... READ MORE
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