health sciences
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Why One Dose of a Two-Dose Vaccine Isn’t Enough
When you get your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, evidence indicates your protection begins about two weeks later — before you get the second dose. That’s good news, but it doesn’t mean you can skip the second dose.
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How Your Partner’s Birth Control Can Affect Your Sex Life (And What to Do About It)
Birth control is unique among medical interventions, not least of all because its name straight-up tells you what it does — it controls birth by preventing pregnancy. Beyond that, though, there are a lot of other things birth control can do. Some are great: Hormonal birth control can clear skin and make periods or endometriosis…