Sam Miller

Best Friend Ghosted Me—Then I Learned The Truth

Best Friend Ghosted Me—Then I Learned The Truth

This experience even made me question the growing normalcy of friendship breakups. Occasionally, they can be warranted. But, so often, friends think they’ve irreversibly grown apart when they haven’t become different people at all — they’ve just started showing up differently. That can be fixed if both parties are able to look within and willing…

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Prostate cancer screening can save lives but ‘absolute benefit is small’, study says | Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer screening can save lives but ‘absolute benefit is small’, study says | Prostate cancer

Screening for prostate cancer with a blood test can save men’s lives, but the “absolute benefit is small” and many men could face unnecessary treatment and medical complications, according to the most comprehensive study yet. In a review that analysed six trials involving nearly 800,000 men, screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test reduced prostate…

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The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth : NPR

Abortion-rights activists protested outside of the Supreme Court in March 2024, when the overall FDA authorization of the abortion pill mifepristone was challenged. It remained available after that case. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP The Supreme Court decided to keep the status quo in place for medication abortion access Thursday….

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Summer Public Health-Maxxing; Ob/Gyns Celebrate PCOS Renaming; K for Bebe?

Summer Public Health-Maxxing; Ob/Gyns Celebrate PCOS Renaming; K for Bebe?

The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. As warmer weather approaches, public health worker organization “Fired But Fighting” offered an alternative to “looksmaxxing” — public health-maxxing, which prioritizes sunscreen, hydration, and more. “It was the worst name,” said ob/gyn Karen Tang, MD, about polycystic ovary syndrome…

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