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Saudis' Aramco raises $29.4B in world's biggest initial public offering
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the underwriters of the IPO, exercised the option to place 450 million additional shares that were initially separated to avoid price swings, according to a statement. The shares at $8.53 were placed with investors during the book-building process, a stabilizatio…
Religious exemptions from vaccinations rise after 'personal exemption' bans
Researchers found that after Vermont banned personal-belief exemptions, the number of kindergartners with religious exemptions from vaccination suddenly shot up -- from 0.5 percent to nearly 4 percent.
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New federal rules allow U.S. employers to '401(k)-ize' workers' health benefits
A change to the Internal Revenue Service code, set to take effect Jan. 1, allows employers to stop providing insurance for employees -- and instead pay workers pretax funds to buy coverage themselves.
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Fatty meal might affect how you absorb CBD
The investigators compared CBD concentrations in epilepsy patients who were taking 99 percent pure CBD capsules after they fasted and after they had a high-fat breakfast (such as a breakfast burrito).
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States taxing medical-use marijuana costing patients, experts say
The New Jersey Senate voted to pass the bill last week and sent it to the Assembly. The proposal, which would phase out the state's medical pot tax by 2025, appeared dead -- but was reintroduced after insistence from Sen. Robert Singer. The Senate proposal would also would expand the state's med…
Medical marijuana may help children with autism
Kids treated with either a whole-plant cannabis extract or a pure combination of cannabidiol, or CBD, and tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, experienced a significant improvement in their symptoms, compared with a control group given a placebo, researchers said.
The kids were treated for two …
Study: 1 in 3 young adults suffers from loneliness in U.S.
If people are using social media to forge connections in addition to old-fashioned face time, that's one thing. But, Maddux said, if they just passively scroll through people's photos of their fabulous vacations -- or have online connections that are otherwise "unsatisfying" -- that's different.…
U.S. opioid overdose deaths quadruple, centered in 8 states
"Although opioid-related mortality has been stereotyped as a rural, low-income phenomenon concentrated among Appalachian or Midwestern states, it has spread rapidly, particularly among the Eastern states," the researchers wrote.
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Study: Illicit opioid deaths to rise by 147 percent by 2025
By 2025, deaths from illicit opioid abuse are expected to skyrocket by 147 percent, up from 2015, according to a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-ad-inread'); });
"Efforts to curb the epidemic…