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Private equity is buying up more methadone clinics – access to the lifesaving drug isn’t getting easier
Three times a week, Amber Titus wakes up at 5 a.m. to get ready for the 45-minute drive to the methadone clinic.
SyndicatedYashaswini Singh, Thomas J. and Alice M. Tisch Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University28 Oct 202611 min read
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Napoleon can be partly blamed for Gen Z’s weightlifting obsession – here’s why
More than one quarter of young adults in Britain now say their gym memberships matter more to them than holidays or eating out.
SyndicatedClaire Warden, Professor of Performance and Physical Culture, Loughborough University22 Oct 20265 min read
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The mafia isn’t keeping fentanyl out of Europe – the lack of demand is
Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are still the single biggest driver of overdose deaths in the US. They were involved in around 38,000 of the roughly 70,000 deaths recorded in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preve…
SyndicatedAnna Sergi, Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne16 Oct 20264 min read
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Prime’s Carrie miniseries expands Stephen King’s story – but weakens its central horror
Warning: this article contains spoilers for those not familiar with the plot of Stephen King’s Carrie.
SyndicatedAhmed Honeini, Honorary Research Associate in American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London16 Oct 20264 min read
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Replacing just 10% of ultra-processed foods with whole foods linked to drop in bowel cancer rate
Replacing 10% of your intake of ultra-processed foods with minimally processed foods is linked with 2% lower incidence of bowel cancer, according to our new analysis of data from more than 460,000 US adults.
SyndicatedErikka Loftfield, Group Leader, QIMR Berghofer16 Oct 20264 min read
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Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth on how light is changing what we know about the brain
When Karl Deisseroth was studying to be a doctor in the 1990s, he took a rotation working with psychiatric patients. It would start him down a path of discovery about how the brain works that would eventually lead him to become a Nobel laur…
SyndicatedGemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK, The Conversation8 Oct 20262 min read
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Russian plague scare: an expert explains what we know so far – and why there’s no need to panic
A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill with an undisclosed illness.
SyndicatedJosephine Bourner, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London7 Oct 20265 min read
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From suicide bombers to positions of authority – the changing role of women in jihadi groups
Khadra Essa, a Somali-born Dutch citizen operating in Syria under the name Umm Qaqa al-Somali, is a wanted woman.
SyndicatedSara Harmouch, Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University1 Oct 20267 min read