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Weekly Digest: COVID Tongue, Daylight Savings, HIV Treatment, & Health Insurance

Photo by Ocean Ng on Unsplash (rights-free) A summary of important health news from the past week. Covid tongue? Why new Covid-19 symptoms keep popping up. By: Umair Irfan It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization declared…

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Health Beyond the Blog: Blood Donation

March 12, 2021
News Team
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The Red Cross and hospitals have been reporting a shortage of blood donations as a result to canceled blood donation events due to COVID restrictions. However, there is still a great, and some may argue even a greater, need. For…

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Weekly Digest: Restriction Relaxation, Malaria Vaccine, COVID-19 Vaccine, & Alcohol and Cancer

A summary of important health news from the past week. Concerns Grow Over Restriction Relaxation By: Gillian Mohney and George Citroner Earlier this week, governors of Texas and Mississippi announced they were lifting mask mandates and allowing businesses to operate at full capacity immediately…

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Women’s Health and Women’s Rights Lay the Foundations for Health of Current and Future Generations

March 8, 2021
Guest Contributor
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In honor of International Women’s Day 2021 By: Tessa Roseboom, PhD In every corner of the world, women are more often exposed to violence, do more unpaid work, and earn less money. Also, women have poorer access to food, healthcare,…

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Health Beyond the Blog: Testing.com

As News Team member Adaora Ntukogu recently wrote about, the sexual health has changed in the COVID-19 era, including important resources being shifted away from attending to sexually transmitted infections and diseases (STIs/STDs) to assist with the pandemic. One consequence…

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Weight Loss Miracles

March 4, 2021
Adaora Ntukogu
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Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Adaora Yvonne Ntukogu If you could have one wish, what would it be? A million dollars? World peace? The ability to reach in your pocket and pull out whatever it is that…

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Weekly Digest: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine, Arthritis Drugs, & Texas

A summary of important health news from the past week. FDA Gives Emergency Authorization for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine By: Shawn Radcliffe The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J)COVID-19 vaccine for emergency…

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V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker

If you have recently been vaccinated against COVID-19, or will be soon, you can enroll in V-safe to keep track of any side effects. V-safe, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a mobile post-vaccination health…

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“Which Doesn’t Belong?”: Evaluating Spirituality’s Place in Medicine

February 25, 2021
Zainab Molumo
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Photo by Matheus Ferrero on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Zainab Molumo Over its centuries-long evolution, modern medicine has earned the reputation for being a profession informed by objectivity and logic, rarely being associated with religion or spirituality. Despite having some of…

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Microchip or Myth?

February 24, 2021
Dynasti Degouville
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Photo by Hakan Nural on Unsplash (rights-free) Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been working tirelessly to engineer a vaccine that is safe and effective. In early November 2020, Pfizer released early data showing that their COVID-19…

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