Hundreds of thousands of US infants every year pay the consequences of prenatal exposure to drugs, a growing crisis particularly in rural America

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Nearly 1 in 12 newborns in the United States in 2020 – or about 300,000 infants– were exposed to alcohol, opioids, marijuana or cocaine before they were born. Exposure to these…

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The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why

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Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They have discovered it…

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Corporate interest groups and their implications for global food governance: mapping and analysing the global corporate influence network of the transnational ultra-processed food industry

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Scott Slater,  Mark Lawrence,  Benjamin Wood,  Paulo Serodio &  Phillip Baker  Globalization and Health volume 20, Article number: 16 (2024) Cite this article 328 Accesses 204 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background A major challenge to transforming food systems to promote…

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