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Public health
fromAdvocate.com
2 days ago

How can PrEP use among Black people be improved?

Black Americans represent 42% of new HIV diagnoses but only 14% of PrEP users, with significant regional disparities and insurance coverage gaps contributing to this disparity.
fromBattery Power
3 weeks ago

Who ya got in the WBC?

Of all the things I wish were better than they are, the World Baseball Classic is definitely one of them.
World news
fromSlate Magazine
4 months ago

It Controls Sex, Bowel Movements, and Even Sitting Down. It's Impossible to Get Any Help With It.

After complications from a bladder prolapse surgery, a patient named Grace developed a hematoma, or pooling of blood, and she needed pelvic floor physical therapy to help her pelvic muscles relax after holding such a large mass of blood. Without PFPT, Grace's pelvic pain could get so severe that it was unbearable to sit down, and even after her hematoma disappeared, Grace still got flares: sudden onsets of pain that she says felt "like somebody was literally putting a vise into my vagina."
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