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Mindfulness therapy can change brain activity in people addicted to opioids, reducing their cravings and making them more responsive to non-opioid rewards.
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A Democratic measure could cut drug prices by hundreds of billions of dollars, but can it pass?
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A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record since July’s Ridgecrest quakes.
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With the new MyShake app, how many seconds would you get from an earthquake early warning?
Elderberry products are all the rage for natural wellness types online. But drinking homemade elderberry tinctures won’t prevent colds or the flu.
Seismologists have discovered “stormquakes.” They happen when hurricanes shake the seafloor so much that it rumbles like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake.
A settlement in the opioid trial known as MDL 2804 would be the most complex in U.S. history, with a price tag exceeding $100 billion. Where would the money go?
Leonov almost didn’t make it back to his capsule
Health
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This matters because the perception has resulted in many Americans supporting coerced treatment for the mentally ill.
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1,306 U.S. infants were born with syphilis in 2018, even though the disease is easy to prevent. 78 of those babies were stillborn, and 16 died after birth.
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Long-term exposure to e-cigarette vapor that contains nicotine greatly increased the risk of tumor growth, according to a yearlong study in mice.
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About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
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Social deprivation hurts child brain development, study finds
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Who is to blame for the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic? That’s the question at the heart of MDL 2804, largest civil action in U.S. history.
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The rate at which young Americans took their own lives reached a high-water mark in 2017, driven by a sharp rise in suicides among older teenage boys, according to new research.
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Mindfulness therapy can change brain activity in people addicted to opioids, reducing their cravings and making them more responsive to non-opioid rewards.
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Jane Fonda was detained again during a rally outside the U.S. Capitol Friday. Her “Grace & Frankie” costar Sam Waterston also was caught in the fray.
Two top officials at the California Coastal Commission criticized Del Mar this week for continuing to reject “managed retreat” as an option to deal with sea level rise, saying they hope the city will reconsider.
Southern California Edison is not explaining why it chose to keep electricity running through power lines in Slymar last Thursday, including in an area where the Saddleridge fire ignited.
Rick Perry was traveling with President Trump to Texas on Thursday when he shared the news aboard Air Force One, an administration official said.
A gang of Wall Street hedge funds is jousting to own PG&E, leaving Californians with nothing but bad choices.
A cleanup crew in Tijuana discovered the body Sunday morning trapped in the intake screens along the river channel.
The Chinese-owned carmaker from Sweden wants to add “sustainability” to its reputation for safety
An environmental group on Tuesday petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to designate the western Joshua Tree as threatened, a push sure to set off battles with desert developers.
Los Angeles arson investigators have not determined the cause of the Saddleridge fire, but they do know where it started.
Medicine
A new study finds massive waste in U.S. healthcare and asks why no one cares enough to eradicate it.
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The rate of twin births apparently peaked in 2014 and has fallen 4% since. In 2018, the rate hit its lowest point in a decade, the CDC reported Thursday.
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Handgun buyers with drunk driving convictions on their records were more likely to go on to be arrested for a violent crime than were buyers with clean records.
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Red and processed meats are linked to cancer and heart disease. But if you eat it in moderation, there may be no benefit to cutting back, some researchers say.
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U.S. adults made modest improvements in their diets in recent years but still eat too many low-quality carbohydrates and too much saturated fat.
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With IVIG in short supply, hospitals are left to make tough choices about who receives it. The expensive treatment may be a victim of its own widening use.
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Chemical companies agreed not to fight California’s ban of Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to learning disabilities.
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John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries.
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When clinical trials won out over observational research, it pushed a lot of accepted nutritional wisdom off its pedestal.
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The Nobel Prize in physics is given to Canadian American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
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The solar system has a new winner in the moon department.
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Men vastly outnumber women as perpetrators of mass shootings. Toxic masculinity is part of the reason why, experts say.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to William Kaelin Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for work on how cells use oxygen.
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Global warming doesn’t make it easy for birds to survive in the Mojave Desert, but what exactly does them in? A lack of water to cool themselves down.
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Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according to the most comprehensive study to date.
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In just 46 days, over 100 tobacco advocates helped nix the ban on flavored e-cigarettes that might have prevented addiction in teens. Here’s how.
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Improving habitat connectivity may be a powerful tool for restoring lost plant biodiversity in fragmented ecosystems, a nearly two-decade study shows.
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