Study: Smoking Marijuana Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk

Published May 25, 2013

Study: Smoking Marijuana Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk

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The new study, which was published on May 15 in The American Journal of Medicine, showed that regular marijuana use was linked to significantly lower levels of fasting insulin. Smokers were also less … The National Institute on Drug Abuse says …
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Stroke-Depression Link Might Go Both Ways

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"We may need more targeted approaches to prevent and treat depression among younger women, because it could have a much stronger impact on stroke for them now rather than later in life," Caroline Jackson, Ph.D., study author and an epidemiologist in …
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Powder Trail: Tracing Vermont's Heroin Epidemic to Its Sources

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For more than a decade, the number of Vermonters treated for heroin addiction held steady at around 600 or 700 individuals a year, even as the number treated for synthetic opiates such as oxycodone skyrocketed. But new figures from the … Using a …
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