Tag: brains
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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…
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Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault in Pennsylvania
By Daniel Kelley NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 after plying her with drugs and alcohol, marking the only criminal case against a once-beloved performer whose father-figure persona was damaged by dozens of misconduct accusations. Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied…