Trump signed an executive order Monday that updates the childhood vaccine schedule.

It recommends splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella shot into three, and spreading childhood shots across separate visits wherever possible. It recommends. It does not require.

The catch: the three separate shots are not made in the US, and the recommendation only kicks in once they are.

HHS gets 90 days to reassess the timing of the whole schedule, and school mandates stay with the states, who are asked to take another look. Trump called it the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccination Recommendations.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs at 36, and she filmed the injections.

Her insurance covers none of it. She has been saving for years, and put her own cost around $8,000 to $9,000 against a typical $15,000 to $20,000 a cycle. A sitting member of Congress, on a federal health plan, is paying cash.

She tied the decision to an administration she says is denying women reproductive care. No state bans egg freezing, and the personhood laws all start at fertilization.

She gave herself a shot in a green room before going on national television.

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Interesting research on dementia. Subjects were compared across three categories: diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking. The people with none of the three made it to about 85 without dementia. The people with all three made it to about 72. Study included 12,409 people.

Three things on the list. Thirteen year average difference.

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We came across something interesting in our dessert research. Yes, we still have a sweet tooth. Ice cream eaters keep coming out ahead on diabetes.

One analysis put them at 15% lower risk of prediabetes. Not higher. Lower. Soda does what you would expect: a review of 29 studies found every daily sugary drink came with 25% higher diabetes risk. Same sugar. Opposite result.

One researcher who kept running into this said he analyzed the hell out of the data and still cannot explain it. Both reviews were funded by the food industry. Nobody has looked again.

A 59-year-old woman in Wisconsin had a 2cm lump on her forearm biopsied. It came back a soft tissue sarcoma. Then it started shrinking, right after the needle went in, and within two weeks her doctors could not feel it at all. They operated anyway and found no living tumor cells left. No chemo, no radiation.

The doctors' guess is that the biopsy released something that woke up her immune system. Of 32 recorded cases like this, eight followed a biopsy or a knock to the tumor. She was cancer-free a year later.

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Barley, a golden retriever on Long Island, started having seizures a couple of years ago. The medication stopped them and took her personality with it. "She just lost her spunk," Tori Cannarelli told CBS. "She lost her goldenness." Then the family took in a duckling named Louie, meant to be temporary. "I never expected to own a duck." Barley started following him around. "She started smiling again. She started wagging her tail. She started having personality again."