Innovation in Education and Medicine

Innovation in Education and Medicine

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In recent decades, evidence-based strategies have been used to massively reduce fatalities and injuries by promoting use of seat belts and bicycle helmets, to greatly reduce smoking and consequently reduce lung cancer, and to reduce drug abuse, crime …
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Experimental compound reverses down syndrome-like learning deficits in mice

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As for the compound's potential to become a human drug, the problem, Reeves says, is that altering an important biological chain of events like sonic hedgehog would likely have many unintended effects throughout the body, such as raising the risk of …
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HIV Protein Boosts Cocaine's Effect

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“The conclusion we're drawing from that experiment was exposure to Tat protein may increase vulnerability not only to the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse, but could increase vulnerability to relapse,” McLaughlin said. The mechanisms to explain …
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