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It’s the start of the summer travel season and bedbugs can be an unfortunate part of your trip, if you’re not careful.

To avoid bringing the little biters back home with you, use luggage racks in hotel rooms to hold your bags rather than setting your luggage on the bed or floor. That’s because bedbugs can’t climb up the smooth legs of metal luggage racks or other smooth surfaces.

Follow the link to see why suitcases that have dirty laundry in them attract more bedbugs, allowing the critters to “hitch-hike” with you after gathering in your laundry bag.

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Even when we know people’s names, why do we go for days without using them? By using someone’s name, you help them feel seen and acknowledged — and that’s an act of kindness. According to kindness.org’s research in collaboration with the University of Oxford, doing a kind act increases happiness, well-being, trust and compassion. And it can have the same powerful effect on those who receive the act. Try it, and put a smile on both your faces.

May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month, with doctors warning the condition can affect men and women of all ages and races. TV personality Maria Menounos was one of the people diagnosed, urging others to be aware of the symptoms after her experience with a golf ball-sized growth in her brain.

One big warning sign not to ignore in a previously healthy person is headaches that are getting worse, especially when associated with nausea and vomiting. That suggests there’s elevated pressure inside the skull, which could indicate there’s something growing in the brain.

Follow the link to see all 5 brain tumor symptoms you shouldn't ignore.