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‘A shocking diagnosis’: How this harmless symptom turned out to be Lung Cancer

Dusty Donaldson usually says she didn’t have any symptoms when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005. But now, she says, hindsight is everything. “I had a swollen gland in my neck,” she said in an interview with Yahoo Life. “It wasn’t problematic, but it kept flaring up and then calming down.” Donaldson, 66, says the swollen gland was almost imperceptible. “I couldn’t necessarily feel it with my fingertips, […]

todayNovember 30, 2020

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How to prepare for Seasonal Affective Disorder during the Pandemic

As leaves fall and temperatures drop, the "winter blues" will start setting in for many, and worries surrounding the coronavirus may be amplifying these negative emotions. “Seasonal Affective Disorder is a subset of depression and it usually occurs around the same time for everybody. So kind of fall into early winter, and then it lifts as we head into spring and summer,” reports Yahoo Life mental health contributor, psychologist and author […]

todayNovember 5, 2020

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September is Self-Care Awareness Month. Here are 6 simple ways to practice it.

Massages. Meditation. Setting boundaries. Sleeping in. Self-care can mean a million different things to different people, but however you define it, there’s apparently no better time to practice it. Amid the back-to-school mayhem and general chaos that is life in 2020, you might have overlooked an important calendar alert: September is Self-Care Awareness Month, which was founded in 2017 by the group Evolve to Live. Defined as “the act of […]

todaySeptember 9, 2020

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Is wearing a Face Mask the new “Safe Sex?”

In the wake of conflicting studies on whether or not COVID-19 is present in semen, researchers from three Boston hospitals have released sexual health guidelines describing the riskiest behavior, and offering some unusual advice about when to wear masks. The guidelines, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, note that any type of in-person sexual activity is a COVID-19 risk factor given the limited data on sexual transmission, and the […]

todayJune 11, 2020

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