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Spotting a concussion can be tricky. After a potential head injury, you can ask if the person feels dizzy or has a headache — but that relies on self-reporting, which isn’t always accurate.
What if there were a way to take the guesswork out of it?
That’s the problem Trent Guess, an associate professor at the University of Missouri College of Health Sciences, and Jacob Thomas, a Mizzou doctoral student, have set out to solve.
Childhood exposure to chemicals used to make plastic household items presents growing health risks that can extend long into adulthood, experts from NYU Langone Health report. This is the main conclusion after a review of hundreds of the latest studies on the topic, publishing online Sept. 21 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.