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A Guide to Allergy Testing

Mesa Family Physician

If you’ve ever experienced itchy eyes, sneezing, or unexplained skin rashes, allergies might be the cause. Understanding your triggers is the first step toward relief—and that’s where allergy testing comes in. In this guide, we’ll walk through the different types of allergy tests, how to prepare, and what the results actually mean. Why Get an Allergy Test?

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Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society

NPR Health

In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention to women's health initiatives.

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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis – VIDEO

My Green Doctor

My Green Doctor saves money for healthcare practices as the practices become environmentally sustainable. Our program requires adding ONLY FIVE MINUTES of Green Team business to each of your regular practice or clinic planning meetings.

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After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. set to start

NPR Health

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

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Six-Month Injectable PrEP: A New Horizon in HIV Prevention

Clinical Correlations

By Allison Tu Peer Reviewed Once a death sentence, HIV/AIDS is now a treatable and preventable disease. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been a game-changer in HIV prevention since the FDA approved emtricitabine/tenofovir.

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DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims

NPR Health

The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

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U.K. Supreme Court to rule on landmark challenge over legal definition of a woman

NPR Health

The court is scheduled to rule whether a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female can be regarded as a woman under equality laws.

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As special ed students are integrated more at school, teacher training is evolving

NPR Health

General education teachers are more likely than ever to be working with students who have special needs.

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Spring allergies are in bloom. Here's why and what to do about it

NPR Health

Plants are blooming right now and so are people's allergies. And if it feels like those pesky symptoms are getting worse. you're probably right. Wednesday, a review published in the journal The Laryngoscope looked at the link between climate change and increasing rates of allergic rhinitis, or hay fever. So today, we turn back to a classic Short Wave episode from Brit Hanson and Maddie Sofia, who spoke to allergy expert Dr.

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Europe deplores America's 'chlorinated chicken.' How safe is our poultry?

NPR Health

President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and E.U. think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn't really the issue.

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Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices

NPR Health

The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed during the Biden administration.

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