Learning about your health can feel complicated. I want to make it easier to understand.
Vanessa Caceres is a long-time health, travel, and food writer who has covered a wide range of topics. Her health writing has been published with Everyday Health, Self, Newsday HealthLink, Livestrong, US News and World Report, EyeWorld, The Rheumatologist, and many other publications.
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