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    Don’t Eat Cicadas if You’re Allergic to Seafood, F.D.A. Warns

    Cicadas are popping up by the billions across the Eastern United States this season, and are subsequently finding their way to the dining tables...

    Weekly Health Quiz: Hugs, Kindness and Summer Camp

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. Source link

    Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.

    “V.R. is not going to be the solution,” said Jonathan Rogers, a researcher at University College London who has studied rates of anxiety disorders...

    The Disease Detective – The New York Times

    Meningitis itself isn’t a disease, just a description meaning that the tissues around the brain and spinal cord have become inflamed. In the United...

    When Your Job Harms Your Mental Health

    “If you’re really stressed out and have a mental heath issue that you’re wrestling with, it’s very difficult to think about the team more...

    Medical Journals Reluctant to Take on Racism, Critics Say

    After JAMA’s podcast, Dr. Givens set about tabulating the race, gender and ethnicity of editors and editorial board members at the JAMA network of...

    F.D.A. Approves New Drug to Treat Vaginal Yeast Infections

    The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug to treat a vaginal yeast infection that is especially common in women who...

    On-the-Job Exercise May Help Protect Against Heart Disease and Cancer

    So, for the new study, which was published in April in The Lancet Public Health, researchers at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in...

    For Many Workers, Change in Mask Policy Is a Nightmare

    “Retailers were asking and requiring you to wear masks,” said Willy Solis, a shopper for the delivery app Shipt in Denton, Texas, who works...

    Editor of JAMA to Step Down Following Racist Incident

    Following an outcry over comments about racism made by an editor at JAMA, the influential medical journal, the top editor, Dr. Howard Bauchner, will...

    Moderna Seeks Full F.D.A. Approval for Covid Vaccine

    Moderna on Tuesday became the next pharmaceutical company to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for full approval for its coronavirus vaccine...

    For Sleep Apnea, a Mouth Guard May be a Good Alternative to CPAP

    But many patients find sleeping with a mouth guard less awkward or unpleasant than using a CPAP machine. The technical term for these appliances...

    Why Teens Need a Break This Summer

    Be open to negotiating the “must dos.”As with any summer, there will be some non-negotiables when it comes to how young people spend their...

    How to Rearrange Your Post-Pandemic ‘Friendscape’

    It requires daily or weekly attention to maintain foreground friends, so there are necessarily a limited number of slots (four to six, maximum). Some...

    The Covid Vaccine Is Free, but Not Everyone Believes That

    When Paul Moser considers getting a coronavirus vaccine, he also thinks about his outstanding medical debt: $1,200 from a few urology visits that he...

    Something Bothering You? Tell It to Woebot.

    Instead, she says, the bot delivers “digital therapeutics.” And Woebot’s terms of service call it a “pure self-help” program that is not meant for...