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Maria Scinto

Why You Might Want To Avoid This TikTok Trick For Acne

TikTok is all about offering advice as well as entertainment, but some of the advice isn't always the greatest. Now there's a new TikTok video that has over a million views and nearly 90,000 likes to date that shows a young woman using a mask made of crushed aspirin to clean her face.

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Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez

Study Reveals Promising News About Teens And Vaping

Once marketed as a way to stop smoking cigarettes, vaping has come under increasing scrutiny from the CDC and FDA over the last couple of years. There has been some promising news, though, about teens and their vaping habits.

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Maria Scinto

The Real Reason Fewer Kids Are Undergoing Lead Testing

Physicians are starting to see the pandemic's far-reaching health impact in areas that have nothing to do with the virus, like a decrease in lead testing.

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Jorie Mark

Why Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure Is Especially Risky Right Now

We're doing a worse job now at controlling hypertension than we have in years, according to findings presented at an American Heart Association virtual conference. Considering that we're now in a pandemic, this is especially troubling.

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Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez

How To Stay Safe While Working Out Indoors

With fall fast approaching and fitness centers re-opening across the country, many of us may be thinking of heading back to the gym. But is it safe?

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Maria Scinto

Why A New Tick In NJ Could Be Part Of A Bigger Problem

New Jersey already had ticks, as numerous pets and unhappy campers can attest. But you can never have too many tick species — or rather, you can, since one species is more than enough, thank you very much. And yet, here it comes, the Carios kelleyi, aka bat tick.

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Jorie Mark

New Fathers Have A Surprising Hormone On Board

When there's a new baby, you can expect hormone swings — for the mom. But, as it turns out, prolactin isn't just for the ladies; new fathers actually produce it

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Maria Scinto

What You Need To Know About The TikTok 'Benadryl' Challenge

While TikTok might seem fairly harmless to the casual scroller, there's a much darker side to the social media app.

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Jorie Mark

The Unexpected Effects Virtual School Is Having On Kids' Sleep

Now that many kids' new version of "back to school" means back in their bedrooms, a teacher droning on over Zoom, they're missing out recess and lunch with school pals. For some kids, this is having an unexpected benefit — they may be getting more sleep these days.

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Jorie Mark

A Side Effect Of Acetaminophen You Never Expected

The legal, over-the-counter medication acetaminophen, commonly sold as Tylenol, may make you feel more comfortable doing something wild and crazy.

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Maria Scinto

Why People Are Talking About Kaley Cuoco Wearing A Mask During A Workout

A famous mask advocate is Kaley Cuoco, who, when posting a video of her workout routine to Instagram, was seen to be wearing one throughout the 1 minute 20-second clip that showed her jumping rope. This drew a lot of negative comments, though.

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Maria Scinto

The Surprising Way Pets Can Help You Feel Better During The Pandemic

While the quarantine period was hard on all of us, leaving us holed up at home right when spring was springing and we all wanted to be out and about, it did have one surprising upside. We're talking about all of the quality time you got to spend with your pets.

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Maria Scinto

What You Need To Know About Face Masks And Sex During Quarantine

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer has plenty to say on the hot topic of whether, when, and how you should be doing the deed during this period of pandemic.

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Phoebe McRae

Here's One More Benefit That Will Make You Want To Wear A Mask

It's a good idea to simply pop a face mask on. But if you need more convincing, here's another reason.

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Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez

Why Experts Are Calling 'Coronasomnia' An Epidemic Of Its Own

After several months of adjusting to disrupted routines, so many of us have resigned ourselves to sleepless nights that there's now a name for the phenomenon: coronasomnia.

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Maria Scinto

A Surprising Way Telemedicine Can Improve Your Blood Pressure

Certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, require ongoing medical involvement in order to monitor their status, and that is another area in which telehealth is likely to play an increasingly large role.

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Jorie Mark

New Guidelines Make It Easier For Parents To Get Kids Vaccinated

With this year's pandemic, routine vaccines might be the last things on our minds. There may be an easier way to get them, though.

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Maria Scinto

The Real Reason Your Face Mask Should Cover Your Nose

Have you ever been out and about and seen people wearing face masks, but they're not exactly wearing those masks as they were meant to be worn? What we're talking about here, though, is people who seem to think that they are fully masked when their masks are only covering their mouths.

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Maria Scinto

Younger People Are At Risk For Colon Cancer. Here's What You Need To Know

Despite the fact that Chadwick Boseman had been seen to have lost a significant amount of weight over the past few months, it seems nobody really knew he was sick. Once the news came out, the shock diminished not one bit when it was revealed that he'd been suffering from colon cancer.

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Maria Scinto

Why You Shouldn't Use This TikTok Hack To Whiten Your Teeth

One such tip is that presented by a TikToker who suggests a budget-friendly teeth-whitening hack. Instead of using the expensive store-bought kits, she suggests just applying regular old 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to a cotton swab and running it across your teeth. Should you, though?

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Jorie Mark

Why Movie Theaters Remain A High-Risk Activity Despite Precautions

A collective sense of enthrallment is what makes going to the movies — as opposed to binging Netflix at home, alone — so special. But according to experts, it's also what makes the movie theater the ideal environment to transmit coronavirus.

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Jorie Mark

Why The FDA Is Warning About Certain Hand Sanitizer Packages

To try to prevent the serious, life-threatening consequences of ingesting hand sanitizer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to avoid certain types of the product that look like they are in food and beverage containers, and sometimes are scented with fruit flavors.

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Maria Scinto

The Real Reason Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes Will Be Released In Florida

As if things weren't bad enough, now word comes in that Florida will soon be releasing millions of genetically-engineered mosquitoes. In fact, 750 million of them over the next couple of years.

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Maria Scinto

Walmart Rolls Out A New Feature For Breastfeeding Parents

Once again, Walmart is poised to be at the forefront of a change, one that will be welcomed by all breastfeeding parents. According to ABC News, they are the first retailer in the nation to install lactation suites in-store.

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Maria Scinto

Why Experts Say The Flu Shot Is Even More Important This Year

The 2020/2021 flu season may well be one of the worst in modern memory due hospitals housing both flu victims and those suffering from COVID-19.

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Nicole Width

Is It Safe To Wear Masks When Working Out?

Wearing a face mask sounds easy enough until you head to the local park for an outdoor yoga class and it's 90 degrees in August.

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Jorie Mark

Why You Don't Want To Be Intimate During Quarantine

With family and friends off-limits because of fear of coronavirus transmission, you are now each others' everything. So whyyyyyyyy would you rather have a thousand COVID-19 swabs inserted into your nasal cavity than be intimate right now?

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