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What Food and Drinks Are Really Harmful or Helpful?
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The World Health Organization plans to declare the artificial sweetener aspartame a possible carcinogen, but does that mean you need to stop drinking diet soda? Here's a look at the substance behind this and other dietary advice, from if anyone really needs multivitamins to how much water we should actually be drinking.
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How to Support Men Experiencing Mental Health Issues
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June is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. Here's a look at how conditions like depression and anxiety manifest in men, and some ideas for how to help a loved one who is experiencing mental illness.
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FDA panel recommends new Covid boosters for the fall
NBC News - By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The updated shots are expected to be distributed as early as September as part of a fall booster campaign. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it was advising drugmakers to update the Covid booster shots to target XBB.1.5, the predominant coronavirus strain in the United States. The …
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The Importance of Health Screenings
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Preventive health can help you change your behavior so you're less likely to become sick, and identify illnesses in their early stages so you can get more effective treatment. Here's a breakdown of some of the screenings you might need, such as a mammogram, Pap test and colonoscopy, and when health experts recommend you start having them.
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Experts Recommend the Birth-Control Pill Becomes Available Over the Counter
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A panel of advisers to the FDA has said that Opill, a progestin only birth-control pill, should become available over the counter (OTC). If the agency agrees, it will be the first time oral contraceptives have been available in the U.S. without prescriptions. Here's a look at why this specific pill is in the frame, some concerns that doctors have, and which other countries offer contraceptive pills as OTC medications.
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Italy’s pro-choice gynecologists reel from post-Roe shockwaves
codastory.com - Isobel Cockerell
Every day, in a secret online group chat, several dozen doctors in Italy discuss the constant pressures they’re facing. Some can’t get the drugs they …