• More Evidence Pot Use in Pregnancy Is Bad for Baby

    So, you’re pregnant and battling nausea every day. What harm could come from smoking a joint to settle your stomach? Plenty, according to a new study that suggests women who use pot while expecting put their infants...

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  • AHA News: Fine-Tune Your Health With These 5 Music Ideas

    TUESDAY, Feb. 1, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — From life’s earliest moments to its latest stages, music can help make us healthier and happier. It can soothe and invigorate, improve mental health and even help someone...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • AHA News: A Joyous Birth, Followed by Heart Failure

    TUESDAY, Feb. 1, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Although Danecia Williams was 24 and healthy, her first pregnancy took a toll on her body. Her blood pressure spiked, straining her heart and other organs. Doctors diagnosed...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • First Shots Given in Trial of Moderna’s mRNA-Based HIV Vaccine

    Vaccinations have been given to the first volunteers in a Phase 1 trial of Moderna’s experimental HIV vaccine, the company has announced. The vaccine uses mRNA technology — similar to that utilized in breakthrough COVID vaccines —...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • People High on Pot Used a Driving Simulator. Here’s What Happened

    You smoked a joint an hour and a half ago. Now it’s worn off enough that you feel fine to get behind the wheel. But you’re fooling yourself, a new study says. You’re likely about to drive...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • Pfizer Will Ask FDA to Approve Its COVID Vaccine for Kids Under 5

    Pfizer Inc. plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as soon as Tuesday to authorize its COVID vaccine for emergency use in children aged 6 months to 4 years old. If approved, the two-shot regimen...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • Shedding Pounds Might Help Stop Pre-Cancerous Colon Polyps

    Colon cancer rates are increasing for younger Americans, along with rates of obesity. Could slimming down reduce young people’s risk for malignancy? A new study suggests that even a small amount of weight loss may cut your...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • Health Highlights: Feb.1, 2022

    Pfizer will ask FDA to approve its COVID vaccine for kids under 5. If approved, the two-shot regimen would become the first approved for use in children this young; older children are already eligible for the vaccine....

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • Airborne COVID Virus Drifts Outside Isolation Rooms at Home

    Telling people to isolate in a bedroom when COVID-19 strikes may not be enough to keep the virus from spreading to others in the household, a new study suggests. Airborne coronavirus particles were found both inside and...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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  • Blood Pressure Crises Sending More Americans to the ER

    Hospitalizations for dangerously high blood pressure more than doubled in the United States from 2002 to 2014, new research shows. This jump in hospitalizations for what’s called a “hypertensive crisis” occurred even though data show overall progress...

    • Posted February 1, 2022
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