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Alex Vance

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  • Health, Wellness and Parenting Writer, Freelance
  • SEO Content Writer, Get Healthy U
Virginia
As seen in: MSN, MSN Singapore, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, HuffPost, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News New Zealand, Yahoo Singapore, Aol, BuzzFeed and
Mom of 3 girls (help), writer of parenting things (Verywell Family, Parents, BuzzFeed, TODAY, & more), drinker of all the iced coffee (and wine)
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The Security Risk of 'npm install': Why We Built Our UI with Zero Component Libraries

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By Alex Vance 
| DEV Community
The Dependency Hell of Modern Frontend The frontend ecosystem has reached a point of systemic vulnerability. The trending news on Hacker News today that mantine-datatable was compromised via a hijacked owner account is a wake-up call. Thousands of production applications silently pulled malicious code because of a single compromised credential on npm. The average React application today has over 1,000 nested transient dependencies.
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Colon Cancer Screening Just Got Easier—Here Are the Recently Announced Recommendations Original

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By Alex Vance 
| The Healthy
“There is an urgency to getting screened," says an expert gastroenterologist. See what the recent guideline changes mean for you. Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer when signs are caught early, yet it’s currently the leading cause of cancer-related death for people under 50. In fact, the American Cancer Society (ACS) says roughly one in three eligible Americans are not up-to-date on recommended screening.
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A Popular Antacid Has Been Recalled by a Major Retailer

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By Alex Vance 
| Yahoo
Juanmonino/Getty Images (Juanmonino/Getty Images) If you rely on antacids to keep heartburn at bay, you’re not alone—approximately 15 million people experience heartburn symptoms every day, according to the National Library of Medicine. But the next time you feel that discomforting burn and want to reach for a brand-name tablet in the hopes of soothing relief, you should first know about a just-announced recall effort from mega retailer CVS.
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