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TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Parental cancer is associated with a greater likelihood of family-level food insecurity, financial worry about housing costs and other monthly bills, and transportation barriers to medical care for U.S. childr…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Suspected suicide attempts by poisoning reported to U.S. poison centers increased 26.7 percent between 2015 and 2020, according to a study recently published in Clinical Toxicology.Jennifer A. Ross, M.D., from…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The risk for migraine is increased in lightly pigmented adults, according to a study published online May 10 in Brain Sciences.Magdalena Kobus, from the University of Lodz in Poland, and colleagues examined th…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Tens of thousands of breast cancer patients could safely go without radiation therapy after their tumor has been removed, a new study argues.Gene testing helped doctors identify a group of women who skipped ra…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Use of medical marijuana has surged across the United States, but a new analysis finds that evidence supporting its use in treating chronic pain remains surprisingly thin.There have been few well-performed cli…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel will weigh whether to recommend the emergency use of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.The decision will be based on clinical trial data the compa…

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. veterans are at higher risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, than most Americans, and new research finds they are also more likely to have advanced-stage disease when it’s detected.At the …