DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-07-13 Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Is Killing Patients. Yet There Is a Simple Way to Stop It. Brett Kelman Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste, […]
2022-07-13 What makes people willing to risk their lives to save others? Heroic actions are often intuitive – even impulsive – rather than a product of thoughtful deliberation. MHU/Getty Images Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College After an 18-year-old shooter murdered 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, distraught parents directed their rage at […]
EXCLUSIVE FRIENDSHIPS. An excellent and gentle man of my acquaintance has said, “When fifty-one per cent of the voters believe in cooeperation as opposed to competition, the Ideal Commonwealth will cease to be a theory and become a fact.” That men should work together for the good of all is very beautiful, and […]
Cat Wednesday 2022-07-13 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 […]
2022-07-12 In America, Cancer Patients Endure Debt on Top of Disease Noam N. Levey RAPID CITY, S.D. ― Jeni Rae Peters would make promises to herself as she lay awake nights after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. “My kids had lost so much,” said Peters, a single mom and mental health […]
2022-07-12 The City Where Investigations of Police Take So Long, Officers Kill Again Before Reviews Are Done by Laurence Du Sault, Open Vallejo ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Around dinner time on Feb. 13, 2018, Ronell Foster […]
2022-07-12 White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD, according to a new study Children with ADHD typically exhibit a combination of hyperactivity, inattentiveness and/or impulsive behavior. Klaus Vedfelt/Digital Vision via Getty Images Paul L. Morgan, Penn State The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea […]
2022-07-11 Medi-Cal’s Reliance on Prisoners to Make Cheaper Eyeglasses Proves Shortsighted Colleen DeGuzman To dodge hefty costs for eyewear, California’s health insurance program for low-income people, Medi-Cal, has an innovative strategy: It contracts exclusively with the state’s prisons, and inmates make glasses for its beneficiaries. But the partnership that began more than 30 […]
2022-07-11 Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry by Joshua C. Kendall About 40 years ago, Daniel Bergner’s younger brother, Bob, then 21 and a college dropout, had a psychotic break. He became delusional; he was convinced that he might be the messiah and that he could cure their grandfather’s Alzheimer’s disease. Worn down by […]
2022-07-11 How to deal with work stress — and actually recover from burnout Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance By Chris Woolston There’s job stress, and then there’s the crushing pressure paramedics went through during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The […]