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Upping Fruit, Veggies, Grain Intake Can Cut Your Diabetes Risk by 25%

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) Eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods could lower your risk of type 2 diabetes, two new studies suggest. In one study, researchers looked at more

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Pandemic Is Changing Addiction Care, for Better and Worse

Latest Mental Health News By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking up America’s approach

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Coronavirus May Pass From Mom to Baby

July 10, 2020 — It may be possible for the new coronavirus to be passed from infected pregnant women to their babies, Italian researchers say. They assessed 31 women with COVID-19 who delivered

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Trump Threatens School Funding Cuts, New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Top 59,000

By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) With President Donald Trump threatening to cut federal funding for schools that

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FDA Approves Oral Treatment for Myelodysplastic Syndrome

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Inqovi (decitabine and cedazuridine) tablets, an oral outpatient treatment option for patients with myelodysplastic

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Streetlights Could Be Harming Your Teen’s Sleep, Mental Health: Study

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) New research is suggesting links between street lights, neon signs and other forms of nighttime outside lighting and sleeplessness and mood disorders among teens. The

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The Long-Term Harm of Missing School

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) Missing lots of school between kindergarten and eighth grade may have consequences when kids grow up, a new study suggests. When they reached their early 20s,

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Why Stay in Touch While Keeping Distant? It’s Only Human

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (American Heart Association News) If you’ve been keeping a healthy distance from other people because of COVID-19, you probably feel smart. But

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Many Cases of ‘Penicillin Allergy’ Might Be Mistaken

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) Penicillin allergy is often unconfirmed in hospital patients, meaning many unnecessarily receive other antibiotics that may be less effective and even harmful,

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Employers Can Refuse to Provide Birth Control Coverage: U.S Supreme Court

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — More than 70,000 U.S. women could be left without cost-free birth control after the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration policy change that permits

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