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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

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What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. But what happens inside the SCN after receiving this light signal has remained largely mysterious—until now.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . This is Eric Widera.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. That started in November of 2020. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Annals of Int Med. Hospitals are getting very filled, like Sinai was taking care of people in Central Park, in tents.

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