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Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids’ sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.

In a small study, people who had chronic pain as a result of damage to the nervous system reported feeling less pain, as well as less depression and anxiety, when they smoked marijuana compared to when they smoked a drug-free placebo.

Kids who suffer concussions should be cleared by a doctor before they start playing sports again, and parents and coaches should be aware that young athletes take longer to recover than college and professional athletes, according to a new report …

An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks.

A pill for chest pains costing ??10 a week could save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients and dramatically reduce hospital admissions, trial results published Monday suggest.

When it comes to treating very short kids with growth hormone, some doctors may be just as swayed by their own attitudes about being short as by data, suggests a new study.

(HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:

Italy’s health minister traveled to Sicily on Monday to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room.

SUNDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) — Most heart patients who take
low-dose omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't appear to gain any
additional protection against further cardiac trouble, new Dutch research
cautions.

MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — High school-age athletes are
more likely than younger kids to have sports-related concussions, but the
rate of such injuries in both groups is on the rise, a new U.S. study
suggests.