BOSTON – Does attending church give you a longer life? A Harvard University study shows a significant proportion of women who went to services more than once a week lived longer than those who never attended religious services.
For the Nurses' Health Study, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tracked nearly 75,000 female nurses over two decades from 1992 to 2012, looking at diet, lifestyle, and health status as well as religious service attendance.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and emboldened advocates, who are pushing for cannabis as a treatment for the abuse of opioids and illegal narcotics like heroin, as well as an alternative to painkillers.
It's a tempting sell in New England, hard hit by the painkiller and heroin crisis, with a problem: There is very little research showing marijuana works as a treatment for the addiction.
