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A mother living within 300m of a freeway while pregnant more than doubles her child’s risk of having autism. Approximately 11% of the U.S. population lives within 100m of a four-lane highway. So if the poximity to dense traffic proves to be contributory to autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders this would have huge health implications. Air pollution [...]
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And it even works when those people taking the placebo know it’s only a placebo! Ted Kaptchuk, the author of many traditional Chinese medicine texts including The Web That Has No Weaver, is now Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School studying the placebo effect. He studied 80 patients with IBS and gave them either [...]
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If we can predict who is less likely to continue our weight loss programs we can probably take aversive action to improve their compliance and so improve patient success. Certain individuals have been found to be less likely to stick with a weight loss program in research trials and so would also be candidates to [...]
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