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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