Weekly Dose Health News for May 2025

May 3, 2025

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Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows

Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles

Vaccines And Boosters Work Best In The Same Arm, And We’re Just Learning Why

May 10, 2025

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FBI Issues New Warning Over Health Insurance Scams

FDA Advises Consumers, Tattoo Artists, and Retailers to Avoid Using or Selling Certain Sacred Tattoo Ink Products Contaminated with Microorganisms

Novel Shoe Intervention May Cut Low Back Pain, Delay Knee Arthroplasty in Osteoarthritis

Rite Aid stores to close or be sold to new owner in bankruptcy

New app trial cuts skin cancer referrals by 50%

May 17, 2025

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The FDA approves first U.S. at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative

Design Lab Invents Modular, Fully 3D Printed Wheelchair for Kids

One woman’s fight to remove barriers for aspiring doctors with disabilities

Meet the Startup Using Dogs to Sniff Out Cancer

May 24, 2025

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FDA requires warning about rare but severe itching after stopping long-term use of oral allergy medicines cetirizine or levocetirizine (Zyrtec, Xyzal, and other trade names)

‘Wrong organ was removed’: Surgeon faces lawsuit over alleged kidney removal error

First human bladder transplant performed at UCLA

Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers.

Vrbo expands accessibility features