Tuesday 4 January 2022

Need a Pandemic Change? Go Mediterranean (Diet)

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The Mediterranean diet has just been named the No. 1 best diet overall -- for the fifth straight year -- in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of diet plans.



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Monday 3 January 2022

FDA Backs Pfizer Booster for 12- to 15-Year-Olds

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The agency also took two related actions in the revised emergency use authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.



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With no way to identify Omicron and Delta patients, doctors struggle with treatment decisions.


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Black Men Get Better Outcomes From Radiation for Prostate Cancer

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While Black men are often diagnosed later and with more aggressive disease than white men, radiation therapy seems to work better for them, new data reveals.



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There Are No Hangover Cures, Scientists Say

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Don’t count on ginseng, probiotics or any other so-called hangover cures.



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