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Professional Rugby May Be Associated With Changes In Brain Structure
Participation in elite adult rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure.
This is the finding of a study of 44 elite rugby players, almost half of whom had recently sustained a mild head injury while playing.
The study, part of the Drake Rugby Biomarker Study, was led by Imperial College London and published in the journal Brain Communications.
The research found a significant proportion of the rugby players had signs of abnormalities to the white matter, in addition to abnormal changes in white matter volume over time.
Spotted: An Exoplanet With The Potential To Form Moons
Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped detect the clear presence of a moon-forming region around an exoplanet -- a planet outside of our Solar System. The new observations, published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, may shed light on how moons and planets form in young stellar systems.
Rural Areas Need A 'Doctors Without Borders' Initiative From Wealthy Physicians In Cities
Did Iron Man Just Create The Ozempic Fad Of 2024, Beta Blockers?
Let's ignore that he is pretending he has stage fright, and certainly that accepting an award would give him high blood pressure or heart palpitations, and discuss what we know it really means; celebrities have jumped on the beta blocker fad for social anxiety or depression. Unlike fentanyl or xanax, no one will judge you if you keel over while on beta blockers. No one is worried your propranolol habit is out of hand.
Common Core On The Ropes - California Brings Back Cursive Writing In Schools
Harry Potter Is The Top Selling Game Of 2023
That is if current trends from November held up. December can be a real confounder because "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III" came out in November - and quickly rose to the number two spot. It could have beat Harry Potter but we won't know until Activision releases its numbers. Also impressive was "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom", because it was only available on one platform, the Nintendo Switch, while Harry Potter was also available on Xbox, Playstation, and PC.
The Economics You Were Taught? Dead.
This is a companion piece to “Enough: Toward A Sustainable Economics”
https://www.science20.com/fred_phillips/enough_toward_a_sustainable_economics-256755.
Revealed: The Color Of Uranus
New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In - Global Climate Change Implicated
We Often Keep Secrets Because We Don't Want To Be Judged - But Few Actually Care
When study participants pushed through fear to reveal a secret, those in whom they confided were significantly more charitable than they expected. This was a marketing experiment, not real life, but the authors say recipients appreciated the trust, honesty, and vulnerability needed to reveal secrets.
Here are some findings.
Bipolar Disorder Is Greater Risk Of Early Death Than Smoking
When it comes to bipolar disorder, the differences in health and lifestyle change mortality a lot.
Seizures Implicated In SIDS And SUDC Deaths
These seizures lasted less than 60 seconds and occurred within 30 minutes immediately prior to each child’s death, say the study authors.
For 2024, Resolve To Be More Skeptical Of Epidemiology Claims - And Donate To Non-Profit Science
Nearly all of it. And like 100 years ago, it was designed to advance an agenda, not inform public health, but journalists promoted it because they were part of the tribe saying it. In this case, there was an effort to push back the 'coffee invasion' in Britain. Coffee houses were all the rage on the continent and Big Tea was scared.
Nothing drove that home like saying British men would become French.
For 2024, Let's Do Something About Sepsis
A Year In Review
New York Times Defended Harvard's Claudia Gay Using 'Duplicative Language' But Is Suing OpenAI Over It
There was an alarming amount of plagiarism, yet the New York Times quickly rushed to defend their political ally and reframe it as "duplicative language" - but that was not Joe Biden stealing British politician Neil Kinnock's life story for a speech, this was printed scholarship.
In The New Year, Consider Less-Discussed Health Benefits
Everyone wants an easy solution to being more fit but the only thing easy is eating too much pizza. Since 2022 we've been treated to far too many pictures of celebrities with weird "Ozempic Face" because their vanity is stronger than their desire for energy balance.
You don't need a gimmick, you do need a little willpower. Commercial gyms love this time of year because everyone joins to honor their New Year's Resolution, they even pay stupid initiation fees, and then most are done a month later.
An easy way to save money on a gym membership, in order of difficulty:
Affordable Care Act Bundling Of Physical, Behavioral Health Has Not Improved Access
Some states have also 'bundled' behavioral and physical health care, and that hasn't improved access or care for people with mental health issues. It isn't worse, that is the good news, but for the 400 percent increase in cost it isn't better - and demand became higher due to heightened anxiety and depression rates during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.
Half Of Male Medical Interns Have Experienced Sexual Harassment
Self-reported demographic characteristics and survey were from June 2016 to June 2017 data in the Intern Health Study, an ongoing National Institutes of Health–funded repeated cohort study of postgraduate year 1 residents (interns) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).