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  FDA Sends Warning to Companies Selling THC Products That Look Like Candy, Cookies

  Several companies are selling copycat food items that have the potential to trick people, including children, into consuming dangerous quantities of cannabis. On Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission warned six...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  How to Care for Your Heart During a Pregnancy

  Pregnancy triggers many changes to the body, but there’s one that may surprise many women. A hidden change is that the heart has to pump, on average, nearly 50% more blood by the end of pregnancy than...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Diabetes Medications: Choosing Which Ones Are Best for You

  You have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. What are your medication options? That depends on what type of diabetes you have and what risk factors you carry. In type 2 diabetes, the body becomes resistant to...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Australian Footballer Is First Female Athlete to Receive Diagnosis of CTE

  Heather Anderson, a star Australian rules football player who died last November, is the first female professional athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. “She is the first female athlete diagnosed with CTE, but...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Program Helps Folks Battling Mental Illness Beat Another Foe: Smoking

  Dr. Richard Stumacher’s coworker at Northwell Health in New York City used to smoke to curb her severe anxiety, and tried multiple times to stop. “She went through the program and she would quit, and then she...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  FDA Approves First Blood Test to Predict Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women

  A new blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can predict imminent preeclampsia, helping pregnant women who are at risk of this severe and sometimes deadly form of high blood pressure. The test can...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Long-Acting, Injected HIV Meds Can Help Tough-to-Treat Patients

  For nearly three decades, daily antiretroviral pills have offered patients living with HIV a highly effective way to keep their infection under control. But some patients, particularly those beset by homelessness, drug addiction and/or mental illness, find...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Access to Medical Marijuana Won’t Lower Use of Opioid Painkillers: Study

  Medical marijuana is touted as a pain reliever, but in U.S. states where it’s legal, prescriptions for opioid or non-opioid painkillers haven’t decreased, a new study finds. According to researchers, this means that people aren’t switching to...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  AHA News: Trim, Fit and 53, His Heart Attack Took Him by Surprise

  WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Ed Frauenheim frequently walked the hilly streets around his San Francisco neighborhood. One summer day, he took long strides to his favorite park. As always, he huffed and...

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  Here’s the 12 States Where Smoking Rates are 50% Higher Than the Rest of the Country

  (HealthDay News) – Despite overall national declines in smoking, Americans who live in the South and Midwest are still much more likely to smoke, and smoke more, than those living in other states, a new report shows....

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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