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• COVID, Flu Rates Rising Nationwide, but RSV May Have Peaked COVID-19 appears to be heading for a holiday season increase across most of the United States.
  WebMD Health News, December 05, 2023
• 'Hidden Hearing Loss' May Cause Tinnitus: Study Some people who have tinnitus are still able to perform well on standard hearing tests, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
  WebMD Health News, December 04, 2023
• The Five Things Dentists Wished PCPs Weren't Missing From overlooked gum disease to suspicious lesions, oral health can provide a critical window into broader medical concerns.
  WebMD Health News, November 29, 2023
• New CDC Advisory Once Again Flags BA.2.86 COVID Variant An emerging variant of COVID-19 called BA.2.86 that caused alarm earlier this summer has landed on the CDC's radar again.
  WebMD Health News, November 29, 2023
• Extra Messages About HPV Shots Boost Vaccination Rates Children whose parents received a reminder notification that their child was due for vaccination against human papillomavirus were 56% more likely to get the potentially lifesaving shot.
  WebMD Health News, November 27, 2023
• Child and Teen Cancer Deaths Declined 24% Over 20 Years: CDC "You can have the most sophisticated scientific advances, but if we can’t deliver them into every community in the same way, then we have not met our goal as a nation."
  WebMD Health News, November 17, 2023
• New at-Home Test Approved for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Simple 2 is the first test approved by the FDA that uses a sample collected at home to test for an STD, other than tests for HIV.
  WebMD Health News, November 16, 2023
• People With Diabetes Have a Higher Risk of Colon Cancer People with diabetes had a 47% increased risk of getting colorectal cancer compared with people without diabetes.
  WebMD Health News, November 15, 2023
• Flu Cases Climbing as We Return to a More 'Typical' Season Flu is still nothing to mess with, and officials are promoting the flu activity results as a reminder for people to get their flu shots as soon as possible.
  WebMD Health News, November 14, 2023
• CDC Says Child Vaccination Exemptions Hit All-Time High The CDC said 3% of children starting kindergarten in the 2022-2023 school year received an exemption from one of the four key vaccines.
  WebMD Health News, November 13, 2023
• What Happens if You Get Both COVID and Flu (or RSV) at Once? Despite our prevention efforts, some unlucky few may contract not just one of these viruses, but two at once or in close succession during the winter season.
  WebMD Health News, November 11, 2023
• ACG 2023 Jury Still Out on Whether Green Tea Lowers Colon Cancer Risk Can green tea lower your risk of colorectal cancer? It depends on who — and what research — you believe.
  WebMD Health News, November 10, 2023
• Catching a Killer   Marcy Duncan hadn't fully healed from her surgery for stage I breast cancer. She expected to discuss radiation and other next treatment steps. But her doctor raised a more serious concern.
  WebMD Health News, November 09, 2023
• FDA Investigation: Hospitalizations Linked to Fake Ozempic Suspected counterfeits of a popular weight loss drug are linked to the hospitalization of at least three people, federal data shows.
  WebMD Health News, November 09, 2023
• Playing It Rough: How Injuries Hit High School Band Members Is marching band a sport? Believe it or not, band members get injuries similar to those in other sports.
  WebMD Health News, November 09, 2023
• Breaking Barriers to CRC for Black Patients Access to care for the highly preventable disease is thought to be behind why Black Americans are 20% more likely to receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis than any other racial or ethnic group.
  WebMD Health News, November 06, 2023
• ACG 2023 Beware of Popular Online Liver Supplements, Doctors Say The 10 best-selling liver health supplements on Amazon bring in an estimated $2.5 million each month. But none of them contain ingredients recommended by doctors who treat liver issues.
  WebMD Health News, November 06, 2023
• People With Long COVID Don’t Show Signs of Brain Damage A pair of new studies about long COVID have shed more light on the sometimes-disabling condition that affects millions of people in the United States.
  WebMD Health News, November 03, 2023
• Clinics Peddle Unproven Stem Cell Treatment for Long COVID 'There's an important opportunity here for regulators to understand there are still quite a number of businesses making problematic advertising claims.'
  WebMD Health News, November 03, 2023
• US Infant Mortality Rates Rise for First Time in Two Decades 'We live in a country with significant resources, so the infant mortality rate and the increase are shockingly high,' said Sandy Chung, MD, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
  WebMD Health News, November 03, 2023
• Long COVID Lasts At Least 18 Months for Most People: Study The commonalities among people in the study who developed long COVID suggest that the condition's cause is the same regardless of which variant led to the initial infection.
  WebMD Health News, November 03, 2023
• Study Links Preterm Births to Mother's Poor Mental Health Women with mental health issues are 50% more likely to give birth to a premature infant, according to a new study of 2 million pregnancies in England.
  WebMD Health News, August 17, 2023
• It May Be Time to Pay Attention to COVID Again Since April, a new COVID variant has cropped up. According to recent CDC data, EG.5 — from the Omicron family — now makes up 17% of all cases in the US, up from 7.5% in the first week of July.
  WebMD Health News, August 11, 2023