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The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is a growing national crisis affecting public health and creating an enormous burden on the healthcare system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total economic impact of prescription opioid misuse in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.
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Young children who are regularly engaged in conversation by adults may have stronger connections between two developing brain regions critical for language
, according to a study of healthy young children that confirms a hypothesis registered with the Open Science Framework. This finding, published in
JNeurosci
, suggests that talking with children from an early age could promote their language skills.
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Topics: education, children, parenting, social issues
Could a diet rich in green vegetables help prevent colon cancer?
Chemicals produced by vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli could help to maintain a healthy gut and prevent colon cancer,
a recent study from the Francis Crick Institute shows.
The study, published in
Immunity
, shows that mice fed on a diet rich in indole-3-carbinol (I3C) were protected from gut inflammation and colon cancer.
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Dementia is a term describing a variety of diseases that develop when nerve cells in the brain die or become impaired. The death of neurons causes changes in memory, behavior, physical capabilities and personality. In many of these diseases, such as Alzheimers, the associated changes often prove to be fatal.
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Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 8.8 million deaths in 2015. Cancer arises from the transformation of normal cells into tumor cells in a multistage process that generally progresses from a pre-cancerous lesion to a malignant tumor. With so many patients and families affected by cancer, research in this area is a constant source of interest.
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One of the key strategies for enhancing access to affordable medicines posed by the Trump administration involved establishing the pathway for the development and approval of high-quality biosimilar therapies. Yet, out of 11 approved products, only three biosimilars are on the market eight years after the enactment of legislation streamlining the process. If current trends continue, it may be months or years before Americans gain access to these medications.
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The spinal cord is very sensitive to injury, and unlike other parts of your body, lacks the ability to self repair when damaged, making spinal injuries potentially devastating. A spinal cord injury — damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal (cauda equina) — often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation and other body functions below the site of the injury. An injury can occur when there is damage to the spinal cord from trauma, restriction of blood supply, or compression from a
tumor
or infection. There are approximately 12,000 new cases of spinal cord injury each year in the United States, most frequently in males.
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