Tag: part-because
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Teen smokers may be hard-wired to crave cigarettes
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Teen smokers might crave nicotine in part because their brains respond differently than adults to seeing people light up, a small study suggests. To see if young minds might be hard-wired to desire cigarettes, researchers did magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of teens and adults – including smokers and…
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Oregon study finds higher death rate for babies born outside the hospital
By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – A study comparing the risks of in-hospital and out-of-hospital births in Oregon finds the odds of infant death are more than two times higher for planned out-of-hospital births. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine differ from those of a recent, larger Canadian study that found…