newshour:

New research shows kids who play football take hits to the head just as hard as any high school, college or NFL player.

Because they lack the protective neck and chest muscles of older players, young players are kind of like bobblehead dolls - the acceleration of each hit is greatly exaggerated. 

Watch Stone Phillips report on the findings. He also joins us for a live chat tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET.

Stone Phillips is reporting for the Newshour now? Okay then.

good: Why I’m Reconsidering My Diet Soda Addiction Diet soda addicts—your love affair might be getting a little dangerous. Scientists claim that daily consumption of diet soda may increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. But one lobbying group tells us not to worry. Stay hooked or move on? Read about it on GOOD→  My mom is addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper. I wonder if she’d be offended if I sent her the link to this.
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Why I’m Reconsidering My Diet Soda Addiction

Diet soda addicts—your love affair might be getting a little dangerous. Scientists claim that daily consumption of diet soda may increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. But one lobbying group tells us not to worry. Stay hooked or move on?

Read about it on GOOD→ 

My mom is addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper. I wonder if she’d be offended if I sent her the link to this.

I believe that this could be catastrophic in terms of HIV prevention.

Michael Weinstein, president the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Weinstein was commenting on drugmaker Gilead’s application for FDA approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill. If Truvada is approved for preventive use, it “would be the first agent indicated for uninfected individuals to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV through sex,” according to a company statement at the time of the filing last month.

Gilead’s application, however, has sparked debate among public health advocates who argue that the wide availability of the drug would discourage safe sex and would, in fact, increase the incidence of HIV.

(via centerforinvestigativereporting)