DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-12-16 With Overdose Deaths Surging, Advocates on the Ground Push for Over-the-Counter Naloxone Aneri Pattani Treatment for addiction is available. For help, call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP), or visit findtreatment.gov. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Louise Vincent figures her group, the North Carolina Survivors Union, saves at least 1,690 lives a year. […]
What You Need to Know to Survive Any Dating Scenario Dating is never easy. Never mind first impressions and the getting-to-know-you awkwardness, the Internet has created a world where every foible, every flaw, every little thing (both literally and figuratively) is on display for the all the world, including potential dating partners, to see. “Surviving […]
2021-12-15 ‘An Arm and a Leg’: She Fights Health Insurers for Fun — And Wins Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Health insurance is like some medieval horror, law professor Jackie Fox says. But, funny thing: She also says insurance fights […]
Smoke, heat and stress: A snapshot from Southern California of life in an altered climate 2021-12-15 A lone jogger runs during a heat wave in the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles on June 17, 2021. Xinhua via Getty Images Kyla Thomas, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences From record-breaking […]
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns UN News In an urgent call to action ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, the agency focused on ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030, said that if transformative measures are not taken, the world will stay […]
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 as pets. – […]
2021-12-14 How LA, Calling the Shots on School Vaccine Mandates, Can Lead the Way on Covid Rules Arthur Allen On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a […]
Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag Conversation in person usually feels effortless. Conversation over video? Not so much. nensuria/iStock via Getty Images Julie Boland, University of Michigan During the pandemic, video calls became a way for me to connect with my aunt in a nursing home and with […]
2021-12-14 Wartime Trauma Hits Close to Home for Scholar of Dementia Grace Galletti Oanh Meyer was a postdoctoral fellow studying the experiences of caregivers for those with dementia in 2012 when her research took a very personal turn. That year, her mother, a Vietnamese immigrant, began to show signs of dementia and paranoia that […]
2021-12-13 Sex Apps for Gay Men Join Forces to Fight Online Insults David Tuller Editor’s note: This article contains references to racial and ethnic slurs. Corey Baker, a gay man in Columbus, Ohio, has seen many dating app profiles that include phrases like “Blacks — don’t apply.” Sometimes when he declines invitations, he said, […]