2022-07-22 Fighting Monkeypox, Sexual Health Clinics Are Underfunded and Ill-Equipped Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Lauren Weber Clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases — already struggling to contain an explosive increase in infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea — now find themselves on the front lines in the nation’s fight to control […]
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Texas Says It Cares About Mothers, but Its Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Lags Behind Most Other States
2022-07-22 Texas Says It Cares About Mothers, but Its Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Lags Behind Most Other States by Lomi Kriel ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. While celebrating last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right […]
How sustainable are fake meats?
2022-07-22 How sustainable are fake meats? Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. Here’s what the numbers have to say. By Bob Holmes If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt […]
Mental Health Friday 2022-07-22 – Down Syndrome
Mental Health Friday 2022-07-22 Today’s Topic: Down Syndrome On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and […]
To boost or not to boost
2002-07-21 Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How Best to Ride Out Covid’s Next Wave Sam Whitehead and Arthur Allen Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her […]
What does the Black Community think about Mental Health and Counseling?
What does the Black Community think about Mental Health and Counseling? By Dr. Marilyn Sturdivant, Dsw, Lcsw It’s not surprising that historically there has been a stigma related to mental health and the Black Community. So let’s talk about some stigmas that have suppressed our community. The statements below are not a comprehensive […]
Reducing Food Insecurity in Infants and Toddlers
Reducing Food Insecurity in Infants and Toddlers (Family Features) Food insecurity isn’t a new problem in the United States, but the economic upheaval created by the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the problem. During the pandemic, households in the United States with children experienced an increase in food insecurity, despite overall rates of food insecurity staying the […]
California Public Health Tax Dead for Now
2022-07-20 California’s Public Health Tax Is Dead for the Year Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to fund public health programs and pandemic prevention is dead — at least for this year. The Silicon Valley tech executives who bankrolled the measure, […]
Too hot to handle: Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest years on record
2022-07-20 Too hot to handle: Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest years on record Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day. Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Jessica R. Murfree, Texas A&M University and Natasha Brison, Texas A&M University At least 50 high school football players in the U.S. […]
Cat Wednesday 2022-07-23 – Domestic Cat Breeds (3)
Cat Wednesday 2022-07-23 Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may have […]