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"Suffering in silence is not a great remedy for pain."

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Ask your teen about their day and try to spend more quality time together.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Choosing a caregiver for a loved one is a decision no one takes lightly.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Tuberculosis cases climbed again in 2022, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- More American children have autism than previously thought, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For some older adults, thinning bones may be a harbinger of waning memory, a new study suggests.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Americans are facing shortages of drugs critical for cancer treatment, breathing problems and more — shortages that increased nearly 30% between 2021 and 2022, a new report shows.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. drug overdose deaths from all drug categories except heroin increased significantly in 2020, as did racial disparities in U.S. drug overdose fatalities, according to a study published March 22 in PLOS Global Public Health.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling kits is an efficient outreach strategy for increasing screening rates among women overdue for screening, according to a study published online March 22 in JAMA Network Open.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Publicly funded bariatric surgery is associated with improvements in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related comorbidities, according to a study published online Feb. 24 in PLOS ONE.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Implementation of minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol has led to significant reductions in deaths and hospitalizations wholly attributable to alcohol consumption, according to a study published online March 20 in The Lancet.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Racial disparities in discretionary prenatal care are common, according to a study published online March 22 in Birth.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), hydrocortisone is associated with a lower risk for death by day 28, according to a study published online March 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, held from March 21 to 24 in Brussels.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Intrauterine device (IUD) placement at two to four weeks postpartum is noninferior to placement at six to eight weeks postpartum for complete expulsion, according to a study published in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Global warming is fostering the spread of a deadly flesh-eating bacteria along the northeastern coast of the United States, researchers report.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People conceived with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) do not have an increased risk for obstetric or perinatal complications when they become parents, according to a study published online March 20 in BMJ Medicine.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A deep learning model can accurately evaluate the area subscore of the Palmoplantar Pustulosis Area and Severity Index (PPPASI), according to a study published online Feb. 23 in the Journal of Dermatology.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There was a bidirectional association between worry and insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online March 4 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- As a logistics planner with the U.S. Air Force, Kassandra Benson deployed to Pakistan, where she worked long days and nights coordinating and troubleshooting special operations troops' equipment and travel needs.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Curated images of perfect bodies -- often highly filtered and unrealistic -- are common on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A review of studies from around the world finds that getting vaccinated halves the risk of long COVID-19.

THURSDAY, March 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A rare strain of the parasite Toxoplasma has killed four sea otters along the California coast, raising concerns about a potential public health risk.

WEDNESDAY, March 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Statin use is low for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), with the lowest use seen among Black and Hispanic adults, according to a study published online March 22 in JAMA Cardiology.