More Awareness Needed To Address Black Girls' Higher STI Rates, Opinion Piece Says A recent CDC study that found that black teenage girls have "far greater rates of common" STIs, including human papillomavirus, chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis than whites, is "an issue that blacks can't afford to ignore," Yolanda Young, host of the video blog spadeproject.com, writes in a USA Today opinion piece, adding, "We need more talking and less doing.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNutrition Experts Present New Evidence Behind The Benefits Of A Plant-Based Diet Nutrition scientists from the country's leading institutions, including University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), held a scientific symposium, "California Avocados: A Functional Food for Optimal
Health," to discuss new evidence in support of the benefits of a plant-based diet, including findings about the bioactive compounds in California Hass avocados and their clinical significance.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMolecule's 'Dark Side' Can Trigger Cancer Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that a common molecule previously known to play a fundamental role in building protein, can also trigger cancer. The surprise findings are published in Cell*.
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