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A study that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to emphasise coffee’s importance in reducing Heart Failure (HF) risk is said to hold much promise in explaining pathways connecting dietary choices to the condition. The study draws on the power of machine learning to rank coffee consumption as important as age, blood pressure, heart rate, and weight in links to HF risk, unintentionally becoming the research focus. “The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,”​ states Dr David Kao, senior study author, assistant professor o...

When Cayuga County Coroner Dr. Adam Duckett broke down the area's 24 overdose deaths last year by the drugs that were involved, he expected to see heroin at the top of the list. It wasn't. In fact, Duckett told The Citizen Monday, more of those 24 people had cocaine in their systems than the opioid at the forefront of the local drug epidemic of the last decade. But the reason for that is another drug, one that was also in the systems of most of the people who fatally overdosed after using cocaine or heroin in Cayuga County last year: fentanyl. According to Duckett's data, 18 of the 24 overdos...

Members of the support group Bourne Substance Free Coalition agree that the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on their efforts at fighting addiction over the past year, but it has not stopped the group in its tracks. The group has stayed committed to its goals of helping people fighting addiction by providing assistance and resources. One of the coalition’s newest endeavors involves distribution of resource bags to people struggling with an addiction issue. The blue bags feature a graphic that shows a circle sectioned off in four quadrants, with each area featuring a different lo...

Members of the support group Bourne Substance Free Coalition agree that the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on their efforts at fighting addiction over the past year, but it has not stopped the group in its tracks. The group has stayed committed to its goals of helping people fighting addiction by providing assistance and resources. One of the coalition’s newest endeavors involves distribution of resource bags to people struggling with an addiction issue. The blue bags feature a graphic that shows a circle sectioned off in four quadrants, with each area featuring a different lo...

NIH funds $900k grant for OUD study in Darke County Staff report As a Wave 1 participant, the Coalition for a Healthy Darke County, the county’s local health and wellness collaborative, is working with the National Institutes of Health’s HEALing Communities Study to identify key service areas where grant monies can make a difference in the lives of those with OUD, and ultimately, to decrease the number of opioid overdose deaths by 40 percent. For more information, see www.CoalitionDarkeCounty.com Metro Media image GREENVILLE — Darke County families who struggle with opioid use disorde...