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The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
How your memories impact your immune system, why moving is one of the most stressful life-events, and what your parents have to do with your predisposition to PTSD. Source: The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility … Continue reading
What Kind of Burnt Out Are You? (And Why It Matters)
Different types of burnout require different solutions. Source: What Kind of Burnt Out Are You? (And Why It Matters)
The Coronavirus Could End American Exceptionalism
Courtesy: CDC Newsroom The pandemic may pose the greatest threat yet to the belief that America has little to learn from the rest of the world. Source: The Coronavirus Could End American Exceptionalism – The Atlantic
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Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, health, pandemic, United States
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Meet the Chicago teen who may cure colon cancer
By Carol Kuruvilla A 19-year-old Chicago teen may one day hold the key to curing colon cancer. If his previous successes are any indication, Keven Stonewall is well on his way to becoming the kind of scientist who leaves a … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, black, cancer, health, Keven Stonewall, medicine, Research, science, United States
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He Cries Alone: Black Men and PTSD
By Ericka Blount Danois They’re crying out for help. But will anyone listen? They are African-American men, struggling with mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder—many are veterans, but many more are civilians struggling in secret, ashamed. These are men like 26-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, anxiety, depression, health, Mental health, PTSD, Veterans
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Heart Risk Factors May Affect Black Women More Than White Women
By Nancy Shute African-American women can be at risk of heart disease even if they don’t have metabolic syndrome, a study finds. That’s a problem, because the current thinking is that metabolic syndrome — defined as high triglycerides, bad cholesterol, … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Cardiovascular disease, health, heart, race, womens health
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Young Black Boys Committing Suicide at Rates Higher Than Ever
By Kali Holloway Researchers have found that between 1993 and 2012, the suicide rate for very young black children, between the ages of 5 and 11, nearly doubled. The increase was driven almost entirely by the suicides of young black … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Black Boys, Black Children, children, health, Mental health, race, suicide
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Fewer Americans Think They’re Middle Class
By Gillian B. White If you had to place yourself in a socioeconomic class, where would you land? That’s a tricky and personal question for most Americans. Education, income, and even parental wealth can all factor into class status, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11 families, economy, health, income inequality, middle class, politics, United States
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On Being Useful: Bearing Witness in a Time of Protest
By Candace Lloh For the past few days, I have been studying lead poisoning. Like many others out there in the interweb world, my knowledge on a lot of things only stretches as far as my social media feeds, the … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray, health, lead paint, protests, race
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Baltimore’s secret history of death: Racism, corporate greed & the most infamous mass-poisoning in American history
By Adam Gaffney http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/police-helicopter-flies-over-homes-as-people-participate-in-news-photo/472012174 Few now doubt the lethality of inequality. Unequal treatment under the law has resulted in case after case of Black lives lost, whether by gunshot, suffocation, or severed spine. And yet, as tragic as these individual … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, business, corporate greed, health, income inequality, inner-city, lead poisoning, poverty, race, racism, unemployment
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