New research has found an association between mothers’ exposure to fluoridated water during pregnancy and their children’s IQ scores.
It’s Time to Get Arsenic and Other Toxic Substances out of Baby Food
It’s time to get arsenic and other heavy metals out of our infants’ diets
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A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Host-directed therapy can boost a patient’s immune response instead of relying only on antibiotics
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Clinical Trials Have the Best Medicine but Do Not Enroll the Patients Who Need It
Most cancer patients never get into lifesaving drug trials because of barriers at community hospitals
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Science News From Around the Planet
A few brief reports about international science and technology from German to Rwanda, including one on the discovery of the world’s oldest known brewery, discovered in Israel.
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Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines
Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children
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Simple Sugars Wipe Out Beneficial Gut Bugs
Fructose and sucrose can make it all the way to the colon, where they spell a sugary death sentence for beneficial bacteria. Karen Hopkin reports.
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U.S. Health Official Expresses Alarm at Increase in Vaping among Teens
Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse addresses record high stats among 12th graders
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Google Searches Could Predict Heroin Overdoses
Internet queries about opioids are linked to drug-related hospital admissions
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More Than a Third of Female Suicides Are Committed by Indian Women
The disturbingly high rate may arise from a disconnect between women’s ambitions and societal expectations, experts say
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