"The symptoms are so varied because your ovaries are ramping down production of estrogen and progesterone, sex hormones that have played key roles in all kinds of physiological processes since puberty. Estrogen is the biggest factor: As it declines, tissues in many parts of your body get drier, your bone density decreases and your body changes in lots of other ways." 🎁🔗:
What Menopause Does to the Body
A head-to-toe guide to the many unexpected symptoms of the midlife transition.
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“Leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place erodes the most elemental principles of free speech and allows state and local governments to exert ideological control over the people with impunity,” said Elly Brinkley, staff attorney for the group’s U.S. Free Expression Programs. “The government has no place telling people what they can and cannot read.”
The Texas Tribune
Supreme Court clears way for Llano County library book removals
Seven residents launched a challenge in 2022 to the removal of 17 books, which included topics on race and gender. They won a reinstatement of the ...
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“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study. The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program." 🎁🔗: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-unexpected-ways-vaccines-could-boost-your-health-00eb3158?st=NYXDc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #research #science #vaccines #immunizations #dementia #cancer
“Without nationalized health care immediately, you cannot compare these two countries with regard to public health policy,” she told The 19th. “That’s just not feasible.”
The 19th
Some countries recommend fewer childhood vaccines. That plan is riskier in America.
Comparing the United States’ childhood vaccine schedule to other countries doesn't consider the lack of universal health care, vaccine exper...
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“They’re not just trying to change one vaccine,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and an editor of the scientific journal Vaccine. “They’re trying to dismantle how vaccine policy is made.”
KFF Health News
Vaccine Panel’s Hepatitis B Vote Signals Further Turbulence for Immunization Policy, Public Trust - KFF Health News
Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision to no longer recommend the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could unravel decades of progress...
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"However, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which is leading the unionization effort, said they are challenging the validity of another 251 ballots. This means the results of the election will be undetermined until the National Labor Relations Board can review the challenged ballots to see if they should be counted."
Iowa Public Radio
Results of UnityPoint nurse vote to unionize are undetermined
UnityPoint nurses in Des Moines voted this week on whether to unionize. But the final result is delayed due to contested ballots.
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