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Federal Report on Drinking Is Withdrawn

The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.
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Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”

Today’s FDA panel on SSRIs in pregnancy lacked balance and failed to reflect the evidence. Untreated depression and anxiety can lead to serious health risks for pregnant patients—SSRIs can be lifesaving. Patients deserve access to evidence-based, compassionate care. Learn more: buff.ly/NcCZno8

Every time I get a procedure for my infertility:

Nurse: We need to do a pregnancy test

Me: No, I’m here because I *can’t* get pregnant

Nurse: But still, we need to do the test

Me: No, because if I were pregnant I wouldn’t be here

I wish they’d just record “patient refused” and move on

👧🏽 Since 2008, vaccination against human papillomavirus #HPV is free for girls in Denmark

🔎 Researchers looked at 16,955 cervical cell samples from 8,659 women over a 7-year study period

📉 #vaccination has effectively reduced infections with cancerogenic HPV 16/18 types

#IDSky #MedSky #STISky 🧪🩺

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