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Could Daily Low-Dose Aspirin Still Help Some People?
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Debate over the benefits and drawbacks of daily low-dose aspirin has flared in recent years, with guidelines now generally urging against the regimen to prevent a first heart attack or stroke in healthy people.
But some people with good heart health still might benefit from taking daily low-do...
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Later Bedtimes Could Mean Wider Waistlines for Teen Girls
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Teenaged girls who stay up late every night could pay a price in added pounds, new research shows.
There could even be greater ramifications for girls' health, with risks for "cardiometabolic" issues -- such as heart disease and diabetes -- rising with later bedtimes, the researchers said....
- Robert Preidt
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First Sexual Experience Was Forced for 1 in 16 U.S. Women
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Changes wrought by the #MeToo movement can't come soon enough, say researchers who found that for 1 in 16 U.S. women, their first sexual experience was forced.
"In a nationally representative sample of more than 13,000 women, 6.5% said their first sexual encounters was forced as oppos...
- Serena Gordon
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Scientists Find Unsafe Levels of Known Carcinogen in Menthol E-Cigarettes
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As doctors race to determine what is causing sudden and severe lung illnesses among some vapers, new research discovers dangerously high levels of a known carcinogen in menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes.
The chemical (pulegone) is used as a menthol and mint flavoring, even though it was r...
- Steven Reinberg
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Where Women's Health Clinics Close, Cervical Cancer Outcomes Worsen
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As government funding dried up and many women's health clinics across America closed, cervical cancer screening rates fell and deaths from the disease rose, a new report shows.
Nearly 100 women's health clinics in the United States closed between 2010 and 2013, researchers said -- often due to...
- Robert Preidt
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Most Americans in the Dark About Cancer-Causing HPV, Survey Finds
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Among Americans aged 18 to 26, two-thirds of men and one-third of women still do not know that the human papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancer, a new survey finds.
The survey findings also showed that more than 70% of American adults don't know that the common sexual...
- Steven Reinberg
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