Fast Facts

Zit Attaaaack!

Zits, pimples, blemishes… ugh! Whatever you call them, if you have them, you're not alone.
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Boning Up with Calcium

Your body has 206 bones. Before puberty, the time when you begin to develop sexually, the body starts to form most of its bone mass (its density or thickness).
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Rubber Reading

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires condom labels to contain certain information. When buying condoms, read the package...
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Aspirin Awareness

Sometimes it can be dangerous to take aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) when you have a fever, even if you aren't allergic to it.
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Periods, Tampons, and TSS

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare disease that can sometimes cause death.
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Various Vegetarians

Eating no meat is only part of the story. The American Dietetic Association describes three different types of vegetarians.
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Kissing and Mono

You may have heard "mono" called the kissing disease. The medical name for mono is infectious mononucleosisis.
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