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A doctor holds a tablet up to a female patient wearing a headscarf
A project with Cofrin Logan Center researchers aims to improve screening and care through the development of a consistent method to ask head and neck cancer patients about their use of alcohol.
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Cancer survivors are often excluded from smoking cessation studies, even though survivors managing chronic pain are significantly more likely to use nicotine than the general population.
potato chips spilling from bag
University of Kansas researcher Tera Fazzino is investigating whether “hyperpalatable” foods marketed to Americans — foods formulated with artificially high amounts of fat, salt and carbohydrates — have traits commonly associated with addictive substances. She recently earned a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the idea using experimental practices standard in the field of regulatory research.