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Adults who do not have biological children had various reasons for undergoing permanent contraception and most experienced no regret after the procedure, according to an exploratory survey study published in Contraception.“Among people who are highly motivated to seek out permanent contraception in order to maintain a child-free lifestyle, regret for this decision is very low,” Amy G.
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Mashup Score: 0Opportunities - 9 day(s) ago
Community engagement platform by Hivebrite.
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Mashup Score: 0Opportunities - 9 day(s) ago
Community engagement platform by Hivebrite.
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Grammy award winning rap artist Lil Jon has revamped the meaning of one of his most popular tracks to encourage colorectal cancer screening.Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the top causes of cancer death in the United States, but if caught early, it is far less deadly. New screening options have expanded access to testing and offered an alternative to more invasive methods like a colonoscopy.
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Grammy award winning rap artist Lil Jon has revamped the meaning of one of his most popular tracks to encourage colorectal cancer screening.Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the top causes of cancer death in the United States, but if caught early, it is far less deadly. New screening options have expanded access to testing and offered an alternative to more invasive methods like a colonoscopy.
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Mashup Score: 1Q&A: Broad data grouping hid CVD mortality risk among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders - 12 day(s) ago
Health data aggregation has hidden a high rate of CVD mortality among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups, but primary care providers can play an important role in reducing these disparities, according to researchers. Rebecca Woodruff, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist at the CDC, Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, PhD, professor and chair of Native Hawaiian Health at the University of
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Mashup Score: 1White adults are least likely to survive until the age of 100 - 12 day(s) ago
The lower mortality rate experienced after age 85 years among Black adults in the United States persisted up to 100 years of age, a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine showed.Compared with white adults, significantly more non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults reached centenarian status, according to the researchers’ analysis.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft recommendation that women aged 21 to 65 years be regularly screened for cervical cancer.According to the task force, women aged 21 to 29 years should receive a Pap test every 3 years, while women aged 30 to 65 years should receive a high-risk HPV test every 5 years or alternatively receive aPap test every 3 years and a combined high-risk
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Mashup Score: 0“A universal challenge’: Increasing lifespan dulled by nearly a decade of disease effects - 13 day(s) ago
Global increases in life expectancy have been accompanied by a similar rise in the number of years living with the effects of disease. This difference between life expectancy and disability-free healthy living, what researchers called the healthspan-lifespan gap, has grown to almost 10 years over the last 2 decades, the results of a cross-sectional analysis of WHO member states published in JAMA
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Daily nut consumption among older adults corresponded with a sustained healthy lifespan that lacked adverse health outcomes like dementia or physical disabilities, results of a prospective cohort study suggest.The findings — published in Age and Ageing — show an even stronger association between eating nuts daily and a disability-free lifespan among older adults who had a
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Few people who underwent permanent contraception regret the decision. 💡 We spoke with the researchers to find out why. Read the full article here: https://t.co/11ruKhiPDq https://t.co/p3rI34m6p3