Monday, 11 April 2022

Could COVID Increase Your Risk for Shingles?

photo of doctor using stethoscope on patient

Researchers found people 50 and older who had COVID were 15% more likely to develop shingles, compared to people who were never infected.



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This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.


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The Chef: How the Kitchen Can Heal and Help You Love Food Again

A chef with Crohn’s disease found the kitchen was the best place to heal and to rediscover his love of food.



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Sunday, 10 April 2022

An uptick in U.S. virus cases is concerning but not surprising, Fauci says.


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New Documentary Probes ‘the Pill’

birth control pills

In The Business of Birth Control, a documentary available digitally and in theaters this week, the filmmakers argue that while hormonal birth control was considered a huge step toward women’s reproductive freedom when doctors began prescribing it 60 years ago, it also isn’t without its share of risks, which may be why more and more women are seeking holistic and ecological alternatives to the pill.



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