Medical marijuana is legal in more and more US states, but medical education is lagging.
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Med students aren’t learning enough about marijuana
Posted by Jim Dryden-WUSTL on September 15th, 2017
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No Comments »Middle-age people: experts don’t think you walk fast enough
Posted by Chuck Bednar on August 25th, 2017
Citing concerns over a “shocking” level of inactivity among the middle-aged, officials at Public Health England want men and women between the ages of 40 and 60 to pick up the pace, so that they can complete at least one, brisk 10-minute walk per day, according to published reports. The organization estimated that just six […]
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Posted by National University of Singapore on August 7th, 2017
Analyzing the trade-offs of converting forests to farmland suggests the economic benefits outweigh the environmental costs in some places.
Posted in Science General Tags: agricultural, agricultural benefits, Agriculture, analysis, and costs will, benefits, benefits from agricultural, benefits provided, better selection, better understanding, billion, Biodiversity, carbon, Carrasco, changes, conservation, Conversion, costs will also, crops sometimes, crops sometimes make, Deforestation, deforestation worth, demand, distribution, Economic, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, environmental, Environmental Costs, focus conservation, Forests, global, greatest, identified, information, Losses, make deforestation worth, National, national university, People, provided, Regions, research, selection, services, sometimes, sometimes make deforestation, the benefits provided, the research team, the trade offs, these regions, trade offs between, tropical, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, understanding, university, will also help No Comments »Which electric car is greener: Battery or fuel cell?
Posted by Mark Shwartz-Stanford on November 16th, 2016
Communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of […]
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Posted by Susanne Pallo-Rochester on November 15th, 2016
A drug previously approved for other purposes appears to “wake up” damaged peripheral nerves and […]
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