Features from this Week: Cancer Family History, Pneumococcal Prevention, and Living with Spina Bifida

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Does breast or ovarian cancer run in your family?

Week in Review

Cancer Family History

If you have close relatives with breast or ovarian cancer, you may be at higher risk for developing these diseases. Does your family health history put you at higher risk? Would you benefit from cancer genetic counseling and testing?

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Pneumococcal Prevention

Pneumococcal disease can be very serious. Pneumococcal pneumonia causes an estimated 150,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States.

Fast facts about pneumococcal >

Living with Spina Bifida Spina bifida is a birth defect of the spine, and people with this condition may have physical and intellectual challenges that affect major life activities such as education and employment. Some people with spina bifida may have limited feeling or paralysis in some parts of their bodies, making it difficult to walk. Nikia's story >

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.

As of October 23, 2020 In the United States, there have been 8,387,047 confirmed cases of COVID-19 detected through U.S. public health surveillance systems in 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. U.S. Cases

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