Roughly 1 in 5 Americans have been putting off doctor visits during the pandemic, surveys suggest, but as the long months have stretched to more than a year that strategy has outrun its usefulness. . "A woman is more likely to die from an advanced-stage breast cancer than she is from COVID-19," says Dr. Therese Bevers, medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. It’s time to get back to routine screenings, she says, for cancer, heart disease, mental health symptoms and STDs.
Some people are born to be parents. Others are just as certain that’s not their calling. While there’s no “right time” to have a baby, deciding when and whether to have a child can involve a swirl of factors.
Our friends at Life Kit talked with several experts who recommend prospective parents ponder several questions, such as: Am I being honest about my feelings? Am I financially prepared? Do I have the social, emotional and medical support I need to do this and, if not, how can I get it?
There are many ways to nurture little people in the world, of course -- being a parent is only one.
Johnson & Johnson’s newly FDA-authorized vaccine -- the third now in use in the U.S. to battle the pandemic -- requires only one shot instead of two, can be stored at regular refrigerator temperatures for three months and works in a slightly different way from the other two.
The big question: How effective is it?
"When we look at the thing we probably care about most — making sure that we don't end up in the ICU or dying — the efficacy of the three vaccines is virtually identical," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
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