Health News Briefs
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Spain Considers Three Days Off for Menstrual Pain
Spanish leaders are holding discussions about allowing women to take three days off of work per month for severe menstrual ... Read more
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Moderna Requests Approval for its Children’s Vaccine
Moderna has asked the FDA to approve its COVID-19 vaccine specifically made for children aged 6 to 11. The drug ... Read more
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Routine Colonoscopies Should Start at Age 45
Although the overall number of colon cancer instances is down, the disease is affecting more young people. In the last ... Read more
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Anti-inflammatory Drugs May Do More Harm Than Good
Researchers out of McGill University are concerned that using steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil might not be the best ... Read more
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Some People Die from a Happy Heart
Researchers in Germany have concluded that people not only die from “broken heart syndrome,” but also “happy heart syndrome.” Takotsubo ... Read more
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Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Can Cause Serious Blood Clots
The FDA and the CDC announced that there have been 60 cases where individuals had life-threatening blood clots after receiving ... Read more
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Omicron Variants Spreading Quickly
There are several new variants of Omicron that are spreading rapidly throughout the country. Daily cases are averaging at 62,000, ... Read more
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Roe V. Wade Will Likely Be Overturned
American women have had the right to have an abortion for nearly 50 years, and it appears that right will ... Read more
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Some Americans Will Have Medical Debt Wiped From Credit
The three major credit reporting companies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, will no longer include paid medical debt in their credit ... read more
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Natural Gas Used to Heat Homes Contains Some Harmful Chemicals
A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that several dangerous cancer-causing chemicals are present ... read more
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Uterine Cancer Claims Many Black Lives
Instances of endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, are on the rise, especially among Black women. Cancer of the ... read more
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Babies and Toddlers Get COVID-19 Shots
The CDC has approved Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for America’s youngest citizens. Children as young as six months will ... read more
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