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What can be done to help ailing gardenia?

Gardenias have similar needs as roses. Their health and growth respond best to wood chip mulch decomposing on the soil surface.

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Huge US study starts sharing gene findings with volunteers

More than 155,000 Americans who shared their DNA for science are about to learn something in return: Do they have some particularly worrisome genes?

Pausing breast cancer treatment for pregnancy appears safe

Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often must delay pregnancy for years while they take hormone-blocking pills. A new study offers some reassuring news.

 
Meditation worked as well as medication in anxiety study

After two months, anxiety as measured on a severity scale declined by about 30 percent in both groups and continued to decrease during the next four months.

Survey suggests little progress against US teen vaping

The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14 percent saying they had done so recently, compared with about 11 percent last year.

COVID-19 booster shots for kids get FDA approval

The tweaked boosters have been modified to target today’s most common and contagious omicron relative of the coronavirus.

 
Adults should get routine anxiety screening, panel says

It’s the first time the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended anxiety screening in primary care for adults without symptoms.

CDC endorses updated COVID booster shots

The Centers for Disease Control recommended the shots that target the newest omicron strains of COVID-19, including one for people 12 and older.