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  1. Seems like caffeine itself is basically not bad for kids beyond obvious stuff like keeping them from sleeping, suppressing appetite, coming in drinks with tons of sugar, etc.
  2. Drugs may also let us fly around and shut lasers out of our fingertips!
  3. "Under the rules of the restaurant, scientists, medical professionals and social scientists are eligible for a discount if they have recently published papers in journals that are included on internet databases such as the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The paper's impact factor is multiplied by 10 to determine the discount, which can account for as much as 30 percent of the bill."
  4. via ari
  5. "It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger." I'm not sure that sentence even makes sense, but it sure is intriguing.
  6. "Intake of zinc was associated with a significant reduction in the duration (days) (mean difference (MD) ?1.03, 95% confidence interval (CI) ?1.72 to ?0.34) (P = 0.003) (I2 statistic = 89%) but not the severity of common cold symptoms (MD ?1.06, 95% CI ?2.36 to 0.23) (P = 0.11) (I2 statistic = 84%)."
  7. "The results of our meta-analysis showed that oral zinc formulations may shorten the duration of symptoms of the common cold."

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