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As Mega Millions Prize Balloons, Our Brains Are Affected

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As Mega Millions Prize Balloons, Our Brains Are Affected

July 28, 2022 – After no lucky winner claimed the previous $830 million prize, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot was raised to $1.025 billion, the third-highest prize in the game’s history. While monumental, the current jackpot is shy of the ground-breaking $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018, the world’s largest lottery … Read more

Truth or TV: Is Grey’s Anatomy’s Parkinson’s ‘Cure’ Real?

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Truth or TV: Is Grey’s Anatomy’s Parkinson’s ‘Cure’ Real?

It’s not unusual for TV to fast-track medical innovation. Take the current season of Grey’s Anatomy, which featured a major storyline about a “cure” for Parkinson’s disease. The drama series followed a team of researchers and doctors as they used a groundbreaking surgical procedure using skin-derived stem cells. In real life, despite decades of research … Read more