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Katherine Stone, a successful marketing executive, felt as if she was in a bubble, watching a world she once knew pass in strange, sometimes frightening ways.

Within six weeks after her son’s birth, her behavior became unfamiliar. She would drive through stop signs and think, “Oh my God, what am I doing?” She felt disconnected from friends and family — as if her brain no longer worked. “I didn’t even know who I was.”

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A Scientific Review and Recommended Public Health Service Strategy for Research Summary Tables on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternative Dental Restorative

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NASCAR driver Aaron Fike reached an agreement with a Warren County (Ohio) judge to deliver anti-drug messages to youths in exchange for avoiding jail time in his arrest for heroin possession last summer, Associated Press Sports reported Nov. 27.

NASCAR driver Aaron Fike and his fiancee Cassandra Davidson was arrested in an amusement park parking lot in Cincinnati. After four months of rehabilitation, Fike presented a proposal to the judge to avoid jail time by going to schools and racetracks to deliver an anti-drug message.

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Large amounts of caffeine may increase the risk of liver dysfunction caused by ingesting higher-than-recommended doses of acetaminophen, according to a study published in the Oct. 15 Chemical Research in Toxicology. The authors are urging patients to be more judicious with these substances, especially if they also imbibe alcohol.

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A new study concludes that blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to have severe cases of a rare form of liver cirrhosis, but experts don’t know why, Reuters reported Sept. 20.

Among patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), which involves destruction of the liver’s small bile ducts, minorities tend to have more severe symptoms. PBC is more likely to strike young and middle-aged Caucasian women, however.

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