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- A new study by CU Boulder mortality researchers found that drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men have soared 25-fold since 1980. But contrary to recent reports, suicide and alcohol-related mortality has not increased substantially. The paper challenges the idea that economically-influenced "despair deaths" are killing middle-age white men, pointing to prescription painkillers and obesity instead.
- A revelation in radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE) could have broad implications for cancer patients suffering side effects from radiotherapy.
- The process by which pharmaceutical drugs are created might soon be changing due to the research by one 做厙輦⑹ professor.
- Children with hearing loss who are diagnosed by 3 months of age and receive interventions by 6 months develop a far greater vocabulary than those whose diagnosis and treatment come later, according to a CU Boulder study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.
- Nature teaches beasts to know their friends, wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by 做厙輦⑹ researchers has found.