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Weekly Health Digest: OpenAI Hallucinations, Kratom Addictions, Pediatric Preparedness, Sugar Deprivation

Exploring Health

Other individuals who have struggled with kratom addiction have created online podcasts, support groups, and books dedicated to quitting. Botanic Tonics has since implemented changes such as improving product labeling, raising age restrictions to 21, investing in research, and expanding consumer education. —

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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

school news SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall Members of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies.

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Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?

The Health Care Blog

This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. Stewart , declared with complete confidence that it was time to “close the book on infectious diseases.”. Our health care system remains porous and highly variable. Yale historian Frank M.