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Do Black people need to use sunscreen, or are they naturally immune from sunburn or skin cancer?

While it is true that people with darker skin tones have more natural protection from the sun’s damaging rays than lighter-skinned people, everyone can...

Long-COVID is a whole new disease

Here’s what else you should know about the condition that keeps some people sick more than a year after a COVID infection While scientists are...

What is cord blood banking, and why you should do it?

If you are expecting a baby, you may have heard about the option to bank your baby’s cord blood at birth. Learning about banking...

Understanding sarcoma, one of the rarest types of cancer

Sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that forms in bones or connective tissue in the body, including muscle, nerves, tissue, and blood vessels. Sarcomas...

Creating safer workplaces to avoid injuries and death

Workplace hazards can happen in any work environment—even while working from home—but even if employers and employees do their best to prevent them, accidents...

Understanding hepatitis—especially the potentially deadly type B

The CDC urges everyone from newborns to age 60 to get a Hepatitis B vaccination As COVID variants and money pox continue spreading, viruses seem...

Stop Bugging Out: The best ways to protect yourself and your family from insect bites

If you spend time outside — which we all should do — you are likely to get bug bites. Most of the time, bites are...

Understanding PTSD

Your house catches fire, and you return home to rubble. You escape a shooting at a gas station or watch footage of one on...

COVID vaccines are finally available for children under 5

COVID-19 vaccines are finally rolling out for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The wait is over for millions of parents with young children. The CDC has...

Can you see clearly now? Get your eyes checked for Cataract Awareness Month

Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness, accounting for an estimated 42 percent of all cases of blindness in the world. In the...

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