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Study: Marijuana use while pregnant more likely to lead to premature birth, early infant death Lexi Lonas © Getty Images Study: Marijuana use while pregnant more likely to lead to premature birth, early infant death The use of marijuana while pregnant can have negative effects on the baby including premature birth, lower weight at birth and early infant death, according to a new analysis released by the journal Addiction. The journal analyzed the medical records of nearly 5 million women in California who gave birth between 2001 and 2012, the National Institutes of Health s...

The evidence is in: working from home is a failed experiment Gene Marks © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images I have a client who runs a business that was not considered to be “essential” and therefore had to shut his doors during the height of the pandemic and send his employees home to work. This went on for a few months. When, last summer, things started to relax, he called everyone back to the office. No exceptions. “Working from home isn’t an option in my business,” he told me. “I don’t buy into it. I want m...

Emergency department visits for drug overdoses, mental health conditions and suicide attempts were significantly higher in 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, according to a recent study.The findings, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry on Feb. 3, underscore the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the U.S. population, and the fact that the opioid epidemic never went away, but was merely overshadowed by COVID-19.The study...

Study: New York lost net 70K residents and $34 billion in personal income this year Celine Castronuovo © Getty Images Study: New York lost net 70K residents and $34 billion in personal income this year Roughly a net of 70,000 New York City residents have left the area since COVID-19 first hit the country earlier this year, resulting in approximately $34 billion in lost income, according to a study released Tuesday by location analytics company Unacast. The report, which examined the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on three New York City neighborhoods - Williamsburg in ...