We've got a healthy dose of news for you this week. We explore the impact of screen time and gaming on children's brains, learn about an app connecting patients with doctors and see how one boy turns virtual reality into physical therapy.
Plus, Hurricane Michael had both a positive and negative impact on the environment - while cotton crops suffered from the deluge of rain, red tide was actually cleared away.
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favorable (adjective) to the advantage of someone or something.
antibiotic (noun) a medicine that is able to slow down or kill bacteria.
physical therapy (noun) a way of treating a disease or injury with excercise, massage, heat therapy, etc. rather than using medicine or surgery.
Journalism Terms
clarification (noun) an addition of information to a story, to make it easier to understand.
correction (noun) a change to information in a story, to make it accurate.
retraction (noun) the withdrawl of an entire story.
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