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     The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to meet its own deadline for banning formaldehyde in hair-straightening products, raising concerns about the agency’s commitment to protecting public health. The proposed ban, which was slated to take effect in April, has yet to be implemented, leaving many questioning the FDA’s inaction.

     The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released updated guidance today recommending that women get a mammogram at least every other year beginning at age 40 and continuing until at least age 74.1

The syphilis rate among Indigenous people in the Great Plains is higher than at any point in 80 years of records. More than 3% of Native American babies born in South Dakota last year had the preventable and curable — but potentially fatal — disease.

Today, Holy Cross Health announced their “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer” designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC). The designation was awarded in the 16th iteration of HRC’s Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), released today. A record 1,065 healthcare facilities actively participated in the HEI 2024 survey and scoring process. Of those participants, 462 received the “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer” designation.

Holy Cross Health earned accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Practice Transition Accreditation Program (PTAP).

     Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology for OBGYN and Gynecologic Oncology and the American Board of Internal Medicine for Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. English specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of all gynecologic cancers — ovarian, uterine, cervical, vaginal, vulvar and fallopian tube. She also treats benign diseases such as pre-cancers of the cervix, vagina and uterus; pelvic masses; uterine fibroids; complex endometriosis; abnormal uterine bleeding; cervical dysplasia; vaginal dysplasia; genetic predisposition to ovarian, uterine, breast and colon cancers; inherited cancer syndromes; and genetic variants of uncertain clinical significance. 

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) recognizes National Stroke Awareness Month, an observance that highlights the importance of knowing the risk factors and symptoms of stroke.

     Alongside its energizing qualities, caffeine has a complex relationship with medications that shouldn’t be overlooked. Understanding how caffeine interacts with certain medications is critical for managing your health effectively and avoiding potential complications.

     That said, sleep training is pretty hard, strategically, physically, and emotionally. That’s why there’s a whole cottage industry of high-paid sleep trainers, books, consultants, podcasts, influencers, and so on, who help parents with all this. Recognizing that sleeplessness is a problem for employees to be the most productive, companies like Meta (aka Facebook) have begun subsidizing the cost of sleep training coaching for their workers.

Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles, federal health officials said.