From sports drinks to protein powders, from compression therapy to cupping — there's a whole industry of products and services designed to help our bodies recover from intense exercise.
But does any of it work? Science writer Christie Aschwanden set out to answer that. She notes that recovery has evolved into "something that you do — and almost with as much gusto as the workouts themselves” ... and she tries to sort the gimmicks from the science.
Every tragic shooting in a school starts as an idea in the mind of a young person. What if a community could reach them before it's too late?
As NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports, that question drives psychologists and law enforcement agencies and school districts, who are studying how these attacks come to be.
When Michelle Fenner signed up to run this year's Los Angeles Marathon, it got her thinking: Tijuana, Mexico, is only a 2 1/2-hour drive from LA. Why not take a trip across the border and buy some insulin for her son who needs daily injections for his Type 1 diabetes?
"It's so easy to just go across the border," Fenner mused.
With the rising cost of drugs, Fenner is not the only one thinking like this. The U.S. government estimates that close to 1 million people in California alone cross to Mexico annually for health care, including to buy prescription drugs.
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