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  • Federal Panel Prescribes New Mental Health Strategy To Curb Maternal Deaths
    Milagros Aquino’s struggle with perinatal depression highlights the urgent need for U.S. maternal mental health care reforms.

  • What you need to know about FLiRT, an emerging group of COVID-19 variants
    Track COVID-19’s new variant, KP.2—more infectious than JN.1—as experts monitor for case increases despite low wastewater infection rates. Stay informed and protected.

  • If I’m diagnosed with one cancer, am I likely to get another?
    Facing cancer recurrence or a second cancer? Learn the risks, survival rates, and preventive measures.

  • Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it
    Dive into the heart risks tied to menopause: hormone impacts, heart disease, and proactive health strategies for women post-menopause.

  • Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal.
    Amid Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis, Kim Botteicher risks legal action by providing clean syringes—a life-saving yet contentious harm-reduction strategy.

  • Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system
    Cancer survivorship is a battle beyond illness; access to resources dictates who wrangles the healthcare system and ultimately, who survives.

  • Oral retinoids can harm unborn babies. But many women taking them for acne may not be using contraception
    Oral retinoids for acne may cause birth defects—yet many women aren’t using contraception, risking harm to unborn babies.

  • Terminal lucidity: why do loved ones with dementia sometimes ‘come back’ before death?
    Terminal lucidity brings fleeting clarity to dementia patients, challenging our understanding of brain function as death nears.

  • How does the drug abemaciclib treat breast cancer?
    Abemaciclib, added to Australia’s PBS, drastically cuts breast cancer treatment costs while targeting CDK4/6 in HR+/HER2- cancers.

  • What’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?
    Dermatologists warn of inadequate sunscreen use and outdated U.S. regulations, hindering access to advanced, more effective sun protection options available globally.

  • Yes, adults can develop food allergies. Here are 4 types you need to know about
    Can adults develop food allergies? Absolutely—and they’re more complex and varied than you might think. Learn about IgE-mediated reactions, tick-meat allergy, fruit-pollen syndrome, and exercise-induced allergies.

  • Their First Baby Came With Medical Debt. These Illinois Parents Won’t Have Another.
    Emerging from the joy of childbirth, families like the Crivilares are drowning in medical debt, with 12% of U.S. adults citing pregnancy and delivery costs as a major burden.

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