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Category: Health and Beauty

  • Kintsugi
  • May 19, 2025October 25, 2025

Do you struggle with anxiety or depression?

Anxiety disorders are real, serious medical conditions, just as real and serious as physical disorders such as heart disease or diabetes. Anxiety disorders are the most pervasive mental disorders i

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  • Kintsugi
  • February 6, 2025October 25, 2025

What is the difference between acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin?

For more information go (here) and (here). I’m not a doctor or offering any medical advice. This is just the answer to a question I had for myself. See your medical practitioner for advice on ove

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

How To Do Face Yoga To Look Years Younger, According To Experts

Proponents say that a daily commitment to these stretches can improve sagging facial muscles — and there’s science to back them up. By Julie Kendrick Apr. 11, 2022, 05:45 AM EDT There

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

9 Lymphoma Symptoms to Watch For, According to Cancer Doctors

By Barbara Brody Lymphoma symptoms can vary from person to person, so not everyone experiences the same issues. You should also know that many symptoms associated with lymphoma can be vague or ca

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

What Happens When You Stop Having Sex

 Medically Reviewed by Jennifer Robinson, MD on April 21, 2021 Your Heart May Not Work as Well. Research says people who have sex once a month or less get heart disease mor

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Zendaya’s Oscars Updo Was Created With a $6 Product Shoppers Call a ‘Godsend’ for Fine Hair 

The volumizing mist is brilliant for everyday use, too. By Chloe Irving March 29, 2022 While so many of the sprays, serums, and sculptors used to create this week’s Oscars looks cost mo

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Slideshow: A Visual Guide to Cataracts

 Medically Reviewed by Whitney Seltman, OD on June 15, 2020 A cataract is a progressive, painless clouding of the natural, internal lens of the eye. Cataracts block light, makin

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

5 Best Jeans to Flatter and Fit Any Woman’s Body Type

Here’s where to get them and how much they cost. By Kim Marcum Jeans are to Americans what the beret is to the French and the thong to Brazilians. They define us. They unite us. They speak t

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Mental Health Among African American Women

Erica Martin Richards, M.D., Ph.D. It’s true that everyone experiences temporary periods of sadness, and times of worry and nervousness. But what about when those feelings won’t go away? Too of

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Serena Williams: What my life-threatening experience taught me about giving birth

By Serena Williams I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty easy pregnancy, my daughter was born by emergency C-section a

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Here’s How Long Milk Really Lasts—And How to Make It Last Longer

Brittany Gibson According to Eat By Date, once opened, all milk lasts four to seven days past its printed date, if refrigerated. If unopened, whole milk lasts five to seven days, reduced-fat and sk

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

These 4 Tweaks to Your Diet Could Add 10 Years to Your Life, According to New Research

Leah Goggins Reviewed by Dietitian Jessica Ball, M.S., RD A new article in PLOS Medicine found that people who make sustained changes to their diet can add up to 13 years to the

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Inoculations in American History

March 3, 2022 By David Leonhardt The original American advocate for inoculation against severe disease was arguably an enslaved man named Onesimus. Before being forcibly brought to Boston, Onesimus

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Endometriosis awareness and action 2022

Endometriosis Awareness takes place across the globe during the month of March with a mission to raise awareness of a disease which affects an estimated 200 million worldwide. The pain of endometri

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

4 Surprising Ways to Be Happy for No Reason (YES, Even Now!) 

Marci Schimoff There has never been a better, or more important time, to rethink what makes you happy. True happiness comes from the inside out—no matter what’s going on in your life or the wor

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NY Times

  • N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers
  • Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC Deal Is Extended Through May 2027
  • Trump Plans $12 Billion Bailout to Aid Farmers Hit by Tariffs
  • Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
  • Justices Seem Poised to Expand Trump’s Powers

NPR

  • How many species are on Earth?
  • Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says
  • Elephant seals remember their enemies
  • This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
  • Your glitchy video calls may make people mistrust you

The Progressive

  • Broadview: Where the Border Never Ends
  • RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health
  • The Education Experiment Gone Wrong
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong
  • Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen

Latest Posts

  • Banned Books Week 2025
  • How to Check If a Website Is Legit or Fake
  • Less Biased News
  • Do you struggle with anxiety or depression?
  • How to Get a Real Person on the Line in Customer Service
  • International News Sources
  • What is the difference between acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin?

FactCheck.org

  • Vance’s Misleading Claims on Housing Prices and Illegal Immigration
  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
  • Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth
  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.
  • Unpacking the FDA’s Black Friday Vaccine Memo

Snopes.com

  • Reporter told Trump 'I ask questions, not permission'?
  • Is TSA checking passengers' cellphones for 5 apps? Here's what we know
  • No evidence Gavin Newsom donated $12M to feed children because Obama asked
  • Be wary of images showing Jimmy Kimmel's 'final monologue' after Trump criticism
  • Did Wyoming mountain really collapse? Rumor doesn't hold up

Tradeoffs

  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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