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Lolo Jones' Spinal Injury Claims Display the Warning Signs of a Back Injury That Should Never Be Ignored
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (205+ words) Jones has since used her experience to advocate for athletes to speak up when they believe something is seriously wrong after an injury. Her account has also prompted discussion about the importance of recognizing neurological symptoms immediately following high-impact sports…...
Hopkins Researchers Trace Growth Plate Damage in Children's Bone Injuries to an Invading Nerve Signal
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (937+ words) Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a biological process that may explain why some childhood bone injuries permanently disrupt growth, and they found a way to interrupt it in mice using a drug already approved for other uses. The finding concerns…...
Cannabis Medical Benefits and Risks: What Research Says About Its Health Effects
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (462+ words) How to Live Better, Longer According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, substantial evidence supports cannabis or cannabinoid use for chronic pain in adults, chemotherapy-induced nausea, and multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms. Their review evaluated numerous clinical studies…...
A Quarter of New Opioid Treatment Prescriptions Are Never Picked Up, and the Share Is Climbing
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1103+ words) More than a quarter of people who received a first prescription for buprenorphine, one of the most effective medications for opioid use disorder, never picked it up from a pharmacy, and the share walking away empty-handed has nearly doubled in…...
A New Over-the-Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray Is Now Available at Pharmacies
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (281+ words) The FDA's approval of Rextovy makes it the third naloxone nasal spray available over the counter in the United States, joining Narcan (Emergent BioSolutions) and RiVive (Harm Reduction Therapeutics). Having three competing products available without a prescription is expected to…...
Cannabis Is Marketed as Stress Relief, and a New Cortisol Study Adds to a Thin Evidence Base
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (864+ words) Stress relief is among the most common reasons people give for using cannabis, and it is among the most common themes in how cannabis products are marketed. The scientific evidence supporting that pairing is considerably thinner than the marketing implies,…...
Opioid Withdrawal May Damage the Brain Beyond Neurons as Scientists Identify New Treatment Target
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (483+ words) For decades, scientists have believed opioid withdrawal primarily disrupts the brain's neurons, the cells responsible for sending electrical signals that control everything from movement to decision-making. But new research suggests the damage may run much deeper. A new study has…...
Most American Adults with Arthritis Still Report Moderate to Severe Joint Pain, Federal Survey Data Show
4+ week, 1+ day ago (966+ words) An estimated 58.5 percent of U.S. adults with diagnosed arthritis, roughly 30.8 million people, reported moderate to severe joint pain in 2023, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. The figure breaks down into 32.4 percent reporting moderate pain (about 17.1 million adults) and…...
Frequent Cannabis Users Woke with Higher Cortisol Levels in a New Study of Daily Stress Rhythms
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1069+ words) People who used cannabis frequently woke up with more cortisol already circulating in their bodies than people who did not, according to Oregon State University researchers, though the size of the normal morning cortisol rise was similar between the two…...
Boredom Made Healthy Adults Feel Pain Sooner, and a Funny Video Pushed the Threshold Back Up
1+ week, 3+ day ago (622+ words) Being bored is usually filed under mildly annoying. A randomized controlled trial out of Sweden suggests it does something measurable to the body: it makes pain arrive sooner. Researchers put 114 pain-free adults through a boring video, a funny one, or…...