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    Recent Monkeypox Case Unlikely to Cause Outbreak, Experts Say
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    Appeals Court Overturns FDA's Ban on Electric Shock Device
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    CDC: ER Visits Spiked in Northwestern States With Record-Breaking Heat
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    Here's How You Can Manage Your Sun Sensitivity This Summer
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    Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Safe for Treating Strong Cases of Depression
    Three TikTok creators with disabilities sharing videos about disability pride month.
    TikTok Creators with Disabilities Find Community on the App
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    What You Say to Your Child Minutes After Vaccination Can Calm Them
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    Researchers Propose New Treatment Guidelines for MIS-C in Kids
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    Word of the Week: Pallor
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    Why You Should Care About the Air Quality Index
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    Mindfulness Training Linked to Better Sleep in At-Risk Children
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    New Pacemaker Disappears When No Longer Needed
    Rosalind Pichardo conducts a Narcan training workshop in Philadelphia
    Philadelphia Communities Are Promoting Overdose Prevention Tools
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    Study: Plant-Based Burgers and Beef Burgers Are Not Nutritional Equals
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    Study: Drug May Treat Symptoms of Sluggish Thinking In Adults With ADHD
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    How to Soothe Climate Anxiety With Hope and Action
    Restoration Continues At NYC's Rockaway Beach 10 Months After Hurricane Sandy
    How Are Communities Adapting to Climate Change?
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    Artificial Heart Implant is the First of its Kind in the U.S.
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    How to Find a Culturally Sensitive Therapist
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    Word of the Week: Heritable
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    Study: Can Air Pollution Make Periods More Painful?
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    Have Diabetes? Taking Antacids Might Help You Manage Your Blood Sugar
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    What #FreeBritney Can Tell Us About Mental Health and the Law
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    Johnson & Johnson Recalls Sunscreens After Finding Carcinogenic Ingredients
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    Regular Aerobic Exercise May Help Your Brain Age Better
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    Autistic People Are More Likely to Self-Medicate Mental Health Symptoms
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    How Mental Health Apps Can Help BIPOC Access Care
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    'Gray Area Drinking' Is More Common Than You Think — And It's Treatable
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    U.S. Death Rates Are Falling for Many, But Not All, Types of Cancer
    An illustration of a girl looking at a book with many thoughts circling.
    First Impressions May Affect Your Mood More Than Previously Thought
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    10 TikTok Creators You Should Follow This Disability Pride Month
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    New Weight Loss Device Criticized for Being 'Barbaric'
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    As FDA Narrows Use of New Alzheimer’s Drug, Providers Proceed With Caution
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    Most Americans Are Not Eating a Cancer-Preventing Diet
    A woman with pale skin talking a a mental health professional with pale skin
    Study: It's Important to Match Therapists and Clients Based on Specialty
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    The Infrastructure Bill Plans to Curb the Health Costs of Lead Exposure
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    This Brain Region May Be the Key To Understanding Different Mental Disorders
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    Skip Breakfast? Study Finds You're Missing Out on Key Nutrients
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    New Law Prohibits Surprise Medical Billing
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    How Can Remote Workers Adapt to Office Life Again?
    A dad with light brown skin holding a newborn baby
    Study: Most Americans Support Paid Paternity Leave
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    The Time of Day You Eat Certain Foods May Affect Your Heart Health
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    Eating Chocolate in the Morning May Help Burn Fat and Lower Blood Sugar
    A white woman at an office leaning over at her chair due to back pain
    Missing Work Due to Lower Back Pain? Recommended Treatments Are the Answer
    Families at the Surfside condo collapse memorial.
    Facing Grief in the Wake of the Surfside Condo Collapse
    Rearview shot of a young woman and her daughter having a conversation on the porch
    Childhood Depression Can Have Lasting Impact on Well-Being in Adulthood
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    Telehealth Site Allara Provides Personalized PCOS Care
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    Walmart Is Offering a More Affordable Brand of Insulin
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    How Fitness Trackers Can Help Reduce Afib and Stroke Risk
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    This Combination of Medicines May Help Heavy-Drinking Smokers Quit
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    NIH-Funded Study Tests Mobile Clinics as a Way to Treat Substance Abuse
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    A Powerful Straw-Like Device Could Cure Your Hiccups
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    Here's Why You Should Stop Using the Phrase "Summer Body"
    NIH addresses structural racism
    How the NIH Is Addressing Structural Racism In Medicine
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    How Researchers Are Using Health Tech to Monitor Depression
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    Pregnant Women May Face Barriers For Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
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    Supreme Court Upholds the Affordable Care Act for the Third Time
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    HIV/AIDS Survivors Look Back at a 40 Year Journey
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    Lack of Screening Led to Higher Colon Cancer Rates for Black Veterans
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    These Early Childhood Risk Factors Can Help Predict Self-Harm in Teens