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Nov 2nd 2008Drug InformationSports Medicine / Fitness
Fitness runners, scattered across hundreds of US cites, can help celebrate World Run Day in “their own way” this November 9th. For the event, each runner decides where they’ll run and what charity they’ll donate to. Already, over 1200 runners in the USA have registered for the event.
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Oct 27th 2008Drug InformationSports Medicine / Fitness
Paramedics at the University of Virginia Health System recently demonstrated a practice of care that researchers in the orthopaedic surgery department say should be implemented nationally. Responding to an on-field neck injury at a nearby high school, the UVA emergency team transported the young football player to the hospital without removing his helmet and shoulder pads.
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Oct 27th 2008Drug InformationSports Medicine / Fitness
Researchers in Denmark and The Netherlands have discovered that during exercise, the human brain shifts into a higher gear and uses an “alternative energy” source: it does not feed on glucose but on lactate. The research was the work of corresponding author Johannes J.
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