The newly opened National Sports Brain Bank plans to study head trauma specific to athletes. Jerome Bettis has already pledged to donate his brain.
Category: Research
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Microsoft Says New AI Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves.
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Bernadine Strik, Whose Insights Helped Blueberries Thrive, Dies at 60
A horticulturist, she discovered farming methods that increased yields of the fruit as its health benefits became widely accepted and demand for it grew.
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Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds
Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.
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Eli Lilly Trial Finds Alzheimer’s Drug Can Slow Progress of Disease
Donanemab is not a cure and comes with significant side effects, but patients had longer periods of independent living while on the drug.
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Commerce Dept. Outlines Its Bid to Fund Cutting-Edge Chip Research
The Biden administration announced its strategy for the National Semiconductor Technology Center, a string of facilities aimed at propelling U.S. innovation.
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Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds
The review found that the methodology of many previous studies was flawed and that risk of myriad health problems increased significantly after less than two drinks a day for women and after three for men.
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Lobbyists Begin Chipping Away at Biden’s $80 Billion IRS Overhaul
The tax preparation industry is alarmed over the prospect that the Internal Revenue Service will devise its own free tax-filing system.
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Hospitals Are Increasingly Crowded With Kids Who Tried to Harm Themselves, Study Finds
Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.