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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the difficulty we health-care consumers often have making sense out of medical information. For…
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Just two years after the aducanumab (Aduhelm) controversy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved another drug for Alzheimer’s…
If you have blurry vision and eyes that are red, dry, or watery, you might suspect anything from allergies to…
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