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Educational, engaging discussions highlight the importance of health education during Global Brigades trip 

On a humid, sunny day in Coclé, Panama, the sound of soccer balls skipping across cement fills the air. Children run around with faces full of stickers, the sound of their laughter echoing off the cinderblock walls. Coloring sheets flutter in the breeze as unattended crayons roll away.   It looks like a school, maybe a midday recess period. But instead, those sounds are the result of Marquette University students and their work volunteering…

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Biomedical sciences professor uncovers how chronic stress and opioids rewire the brain

Stress is a universal part of the human experience — and universally miserable when it turns chronic or severe. It can raise your blood pressure, disrupt your sleep, weaken your immune system and so much more. But some of its most damaging, and least understood, effects happen inside the brain, says Marquette’s Dr. Matthew Hearing,…

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