Dec 21: ICYMI news for women
No TL;DR. Just the facts, ma'am. Dozens of news articles in the last week alone that matter to women. Click your picks: we watch the news so you don't have to.
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In the news this week for women: Cover pic: She was a moderate before groveling before the Sith Presidency. Now she’s been unceremoniously tossed out of the plane. What’s next? News: Home cures for that sore throat. Why concierge medicine might be right for you. New fixes for autoimmune diseases, much more prevalent in women than men. Dealing with sky-high levels of holiday stress on top of leady-crazed national stress levels. The FDA doesn’t pay much attention to generic drugs; find out what country yours came from. The new leading marker for heart disease isn’t cholesterol. Pharmacist tips on reducing drug costs. Superflu hits the US early and hard. Could higher fat foods—even cheese—be healthy? Retirement age changes in 2026. What’s in the new Marijuana exec order, and social media disinformation set the stage for unplanned pregnancies. Millennial women are the first in almost a hundred years to have declining health. What to ask during that all-important first doctor visit. Sorting out the vaccine recommendation murk. Oh, boy—the boys found a woman’s libido pill (that of course doesn’t involve better male sensitivity). Millennial and Gen X women aren’t buying into hair loss. Study: new tea-coffee delineator on bone density. Alzheimer’s biomarker tests. Kennedy initiates this century’s version of the Tuskegee experiment—in Africa, of course. The scoop on methylene blue. And is traditional medicine finally being seen as valuable? With Femtech woven throughout, and a touch of men’s health (kind of) just to be fair.
