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School is in session. Should you worry about your kid catching monkeypox?

[ad_1] In the meantime, students are coming back to school. Parents, caregivers, teachers and students have a lot of questions. Can monkeypox be spread by sitting next to someone with the virus in a classroom or playing in the playground together? Could it be transmitted by sharing food or drinks? Are there certain activities for […]

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Baby formula waivers, rebates extended to allow WIC families more flexibility to buy different brands | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  As a nationwide baby formula shortage continues, the federal government says it plans to continue to allow families who use nutrition benefits to afford baby formula to have an expanded range of options when they go to the grocery store. Families who buy formula through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women

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Increased alcohol use linked with higher risk of cancer in new study

[ad_1] The study found that people who increased the amount they drank had a higher risk of all cancers, including alcohol-related cancers, than the group that made no changes to their drinking habits. The risk also increased for non-drinkers who changed their habits and became mild, moderate or heavy drinkers. “This is another great example

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House oversight subcommittee report says Trump officials had pressure campaign on hydroxychloroquine, other FDA issues

[ad_1] In its second wide-ranging investigation on the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic officials spoke with former FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, who told the committee in an interview that former White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro “exerted inappropriate pressure” on the FDA to reissue an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, an

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A 7 million-year-old practice set our ancestors on the course to humanity, new study finds

[ad_1] Researchers looked at a femur and two ulna arm bones of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, one of the earliest known human ancestors, and found signs that they walked on two feet — also known as bipedalism, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature. “Our oldest known representatives were practicing bipedalism (on the ground and

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Rural cancer patients struggle with cost and distance to access promising cancer treatment

[ad_1] Three years ago, the newlywed, then 62, was sick with stage 4 lymphoma, sick from two failed rounds of chemotherapy, and sick of living in a trailer park near the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. It was fall 2019, and treatment had forced her to migrate 750 miles east from

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Americans are highly vaccinated against polio. Here’s why it could still spread | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  So far, there’s been just one recent case of polio in the United States, which paralyzed a young adult in Rockland County, New York. One case – and evidence in sewage of more spread – may not sound significant, and Americans are highly vaccinated against polio, meaning most people are protected from

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Not getting enough sleep? It could be making you more selfish

[ad_1] Insufficient sleep affects how likely a person is to help someone, according to a new research published in the journal PLOS Biology on Tuesday. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted three studies in the United States looking at this “selfish” effect, analyzing changes in neural activity and behavior benefiting others, and found

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