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How can parents forget a child in a car?

10 years 2 months ago
I have been studying the brain and memory since 1980, but I was baffled when a news reporter asked me in 2004 how parents can forget that their children are in the car with them. It seemed incomprehensible that parents could leave a child in a car and then go about their daily activities, as their child dies of hyperthermia in a car that reaches scorching temperatures.

Medical marijuana has potential as Alzheimer's treatment, study says

10 years 2 months ago
Could medical marijuana treat Alzheimer's patients? One recent study found THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, stimulates the removal of toxic plaque in the brain, a common feature of the disease. Furthermore, the researchers discovered it blocks inflammation, which damages neurons in the brain.

Brooklyn man says he's caught every Pokemon

10 years 2 months ago
Pokémon Go is the video game that has everyone talking. The interactive hit blends the virtual world of Pokémon with the real world, and it has people across the globe going outdoors with just one goal: gotta catch 'em all.

Ivanka Trump, a champion for women?

10 years 2 months ago
To say Donald Trump does not have the best reputation when it comes to women is a huge understatement. He has a history of paying his female employees less than his male employees. Trump has also disparaged women of all backgrounds, referring to them as "disgusting animals," "fat pigs," "slobs," "dogs" and other disrespectful and bullying epithets.

Iraqis risk death to flee ISIS

10 years 2 months ago
The soldiers are on edge, peering nervously into the dark. They can make out the sound of people -- they can never know whom -- approaching their position on this mountainside overlooking Mosul.
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