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Step aside, $3,500 Cartier watches and $12,000 Birkin bags. The latest status symbol may be full-body MRI scans, touted by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and designer Zac Posen.

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Racism expressed through cultural norms can perpetuate negative health outcomes for non-white groups, according to a study by UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

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About 46% of American adults are divorced, widowed or have never been married, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and the proportion of never-marrieds has been rising steadily in modern times.

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When it comes to female anatomy, there's still a lot that many of us don't know. A 2019 survey from YouGov found that half of those questioned didn't know where the vagina was on a diagram of a w...

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Kraft Heinz said it is recalling over 83,000 packs of its Kraft Singles American processed cheese slices because of a packaging defect in the plastic that wraps the cheese slices.

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With the announcement this week that 58,000 pounds of ground beef may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, you might be wondering about E. coli. What is E. coli? Who is at r...

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Question: A friend has a family history of diabetes and obesity. She is diligent about eating healthfully and enjoys sharing new recipes and information about food. Recently she mentioned a sugar...

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Growing up on the South Side of Chicago as the child of Mexican immigrants who primarily spoke Spanish, Dr. Daniel Meza was often asked to translate for his parents during medical appointments.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-spanish-language-pulmonary-thoracic-doctors-health-outcomes.html

Despite growing awareness about the high rates of suicide among men, research is still needed to examine men's mental health challenges. Existential psychology, with its focus on questions of mea...

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The United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response on September 20, 2023, to continue discussions on finalizing a globally enforceabl...

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A new government report finds that federal regulators need to do more to help in the battle to keep kids and teens off tobacco.

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Cardiac rehabilitation is a key part of recovery from a heart attack, helping to prevent another, perhaps more severe one.

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Highly processed packaged foods and drinks may be quick, cheap and tasty, but new research suggests they're also likely to up your risk for depression.

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Freelance journalist Adele Waters speaks to scores of doctors unable to work or play with their children, forced to sell their homes or facing financial destitution by an illness they caught whil...

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New research published in Diabetologia shows that morning and afternoon physical activity are associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes across all population levels of education ...

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Americans have become increasingly aware of the fact that they just don't get enough sleep. However it turns out that's not the whole story. Duration is important but so is regularity.

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Residents of Atlanta's majority-Black and low-income neighborhoods have significantly less access to fresh produce than residents of the city's non-majority-Black and higher income neighborhoods,...

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At a time when sitting for long hours at work has become the norm, a study by researchers in Western's School of Kinesiology sheds light on how taking breaks can impact our well-being.

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Flossing is the healthy habit most of us love to hate. In survey after survey, Americans report dismal rates for consistent daily flossing—and they also admit lying to their dentists about it. ...

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The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, a new study from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests.

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Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne path...

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A new longitudinal study published online in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that older adults with COPD had a heightened risk of depression during the ea...

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Carotid artery disease occurs when the blood vessels supplying your brain and head, known as carotid arteries, are damaged or blocked by fatty deposits. These deposits contain cholesterol that or...

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We expect medical professionals to give us reliable information about ourselves and potential treatments so that we can make informed decisions about which (if any) medicine or other intervention...

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Menopause is the stage of life where the ovaries stop releasing eggs and menstrual periods cease. Most Australian women go through menopause between 45 and 55 years of age, with the average age b...

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Spring has sprung and many people are welcoming longer days and more time outdoors. But for almost 1 in 5 Australians, spring also brings the misery of watery, itchy red eyes, a runny, congested ...

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Hospital chiefs on Wednesday warned of danger to patient safety from the latest doctors strike, the first time consultants and junior doctors in England have walked out at the same time.

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Applying Google's own nutrition advertising policy to the US market would slash the number of products from the country's top 25 food and beverage manufacturers that could be marketed to children...

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More than half of volunteer community health care workers in 19 countries experience labor exploitation, including sub-minimum-wage pay and excess work hours, Mount Sinai researchers report in th...

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Exercise-based rehab can slow chronic kidney disease, boost transplant readiness and recovery and improve quality of life, a study shows.

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