Tag Archives: your-feed-health

The New York Times 9:19 pm on March 17, 2023
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What Are Raccoon Dogs?

The monogamous, hibernating canids, which are related to foxes, are sold for meat and fur.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animals, #china, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #raccoon-dogs, #sars-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome, #viruses, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:29 pm on March 15, 2023
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Texas Judge Hears Case to End Federal Approval of Abortion Pill

The judge said he would decide soon whether to issue a preliminary injunction ordering the F.D.A. to withdraw its approval of the drug or wait for the full trial.

#abortion, #abortion-drugs, #amarillo-tex, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #kacsmaryk-matthew, #mifeprex-ru-486, #roe-v-wade-supreme-court-decision, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #texas, #your-feed-health

The New York Times 4:00 pm on March 15, 2023
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Scientists Investigate a Bird Flu Outbreak in Seals

Wild birds passed the virus to seals in New England at least twice last summer, a new study suggests.

#animals, #avian-influenza, #birds, #maine, #mammals, #new-england-states-us, #north-america, #seals-animals-and-sealing, #viruses, #wildlife-die-offs, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 11:10 pm on March 9, 2023
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FDA Will Require Dense Breast Disclosure at Mammogram Clinics

The U.S. agency wants to ensure that doctors inform women that some breast anomalies require more examination.

#breast-cancer, #food-and-drug-administration, #mammography, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-healthcare, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 8:00 am on March 7, 2023
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Could the Next Blockbuster Drug Be Lab-Rat Free?

Alternatives to animal testing are gaining momentum.

#animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #food-and-drug-administration, #laboratories-and-scientific-equipment, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 6:57 pm on March 4, 2023
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New Treatment Could Help Fix the Heart’s ‘Forgotten Valve’

Patients with leaking tricuspid valves in a research trial saw improvements with a procedure that does not require a risky open-heart surgery.

#abbott-laboratories, #american-college-of-cardiology, #clinical-trials, #edwards-lifesciences-corporation, #heart, #medical-devices, #new-england-journal-of-medicine, #research, #surgery-and-surgeons, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 pm on March 3, 2023
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In Chernobyl’s Stray Dogs, Geneticists Find Nuclear Families

A new study is the first step in an effort to understand how exposure to chronic, low-level radiation has affected the area’s dogs.

#animals, #chernobyl-ukraine, #dna-deoxyribonucleic-acid, #dogs, #genetics-and-heredity, #mousseau-timothy-a, #radiation, #ukraine, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 4:32 pm on February 27, 2023
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Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats?

Welcome to the rat trapper’s dilemma.

#animal-behavior, #animal-cognition, #animals, #cognition-journal, #culver-city-calif, #internal-sub-only, #munshi-south-jason, #new-york-city, #rats, #rodents, #society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 12:01 am on February 15, 2023
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A Link Between Hearing Voices and Hearing Your Own Voice

An experiment with bone-conduction headphones suggests a way for neuroscientists to better understand some hallucinations.

#audio-recordings-downloads-and-streaming, #brain, #hallucinations, #headphones-and-headsets, #mental-health-and-disorders, #research, #royal-society-open-science-journal, #voice-and-speech, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 6:24 pm on February 14, 2023
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According to Medical Guidelines, Your Doctor Needs a 27-Hour Workday

Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice.

#bmj-journal, #diet-and-nutrition, #doctors, #journal-of-general-internal-medicine, #medicine-and-health, #research, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-healthcare

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 8, 2023
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Bird Flu Outbreak Puts Mink Farms Back in the Spotlight

A new variant of avian influenza appears capable of spreading among mammals, highlighting the need for more proactive surveillance, experts said.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animals, #avian-influenza, #centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #minks-animals, #netherlands, #spain, #utah, #viruses, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 10:23 am on February 3, 2023
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‘My Watch Thinks I’m Dead’

911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive.

#apple-inc, #aspen-colo, #golden-colo, #iphone, #nine-one-one-911-emergency-phone-number, #skiing, #smartphones, #telephones-and-telecommunications, #traffic-accidents-and-safety, #watches-and-clocks, #wearable-computing, #winter-park-colo, #your-feed-health

The New York Times 8:00 am on January 31, 2023
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The Navy’s Dolphins Have a Few Things to Tell Us About Aging

In her youth, Blue was a standout mine-hunter for the U.S. military. She and her colleagues are now at the vanguard of geriatric marine mammal medicine.

#age-chronological, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #dolphins-and-porpoises, #internal-sub-only, #national-marine-mammal-foundation, #research, #san-diego-calif, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #united-states-navy, #veterinary-medicine, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 4:00 pm on January 30, 2023
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Students Lost One-Third of a School Year to Pandemic, Study Finds

Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.

#children-and-childhood, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #education-k-12, #environmental-sciencetechnology-journal, #epidemics, #harvard-university, #income-inequality, #institut-detudes-politiques-de-paris, #nature-journal, #poverty, #shutdowns-institutional, #third-world-and-developing-countries, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 7, 2023
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Health Experts Warily Eye XBB.1.5, the Latest Omicron Subvariant

A young version of the coronavirus makes up one-quarter of Covid cases across the United States and over 70 percent of new cases in the Northeast.

#antibodies, #centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #china, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-omicron-variant, #evolution-biology, #gisaid-nonprofit, #northeastern-states-us, #proteins, #united-states, #van-kerkhove-maria, #viruses, #world-health-organization, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 10:00 am on December 22, 2022
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‘Tripledemic’ Rages On: Fever-Filled Weeks Lie Ahead

R.S.V. has probably peaked, but flu is still surging and Covid-19 cases are rising. Scientists are hopeful next winter will be better.

#centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-omicron-variant, #influenza, #respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv, #viruses, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 10:00 am on December 13, 2022
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When Black Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color

In Atlanta, a team of mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.

#antidepressants, #anxiety-and-stress, #attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder, #black-people, #children-and-childhood, #depression-mental, #discrimination, #doctors, #income-inequality, #mental-health-and-disorders, #psychiatry-and-psychiatrists, #race-and-ethnicity, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 19, 2022
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What if You Could Go to the Hospital … at Home?

Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.

#boston-mass, #brigham-and-womens-hospital, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #elderly, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #home-health-care, #hospitals, #johns-hopkins-university, #journal-of-the-american-geriatrics-society, #medicare, #medicine-and-health, #nursing-homes, #united-states, #veterans-health-administration, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 12:05 am on November 9, 2022
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Brain Stimulation Could Limit the Urge to Binge Eat, Study Says

A small study demonstrated that deep brain stimulation, used for people with Parkinson’s disease, can limit an urge to overeat.

#brain, #eating-disorders, #implants, #nature-medicine-journal, #obesity, #research, #weight, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 am on November 1, 2022
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The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead

A dwindling group of professionals is tasked with navigating the often fraught passage from life to death.

#asbury-park-nj, #atacama-desert, #cremation, #death-and-dying, #embalming, #formaldehyde, #funerals-and-memorials, #internal-sub-only, #mitford-jessica, #morgues-and-mortuaries, #mummies-and-mummification, #national-funeral-directors-assn, #the-american-way-of-death-book, #united-states, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on October 22, 2022
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Among Seniors, a Declining Interest in Boosters

Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of vaccinations. But fewer are getting the follow-up shots, surveys indicate.

#centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #elder-care, #elderly, #medicine-and-health, #new-castle-del, #nursing-homes, #united-states, #vaccination-and-immunization, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on October 19, 2022
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These Doctors Admit They Don’t Want Patients With Disabilities

When granted anonymity in focus groups, physicians let their guards down and shared opinions consistent with experiences of many people with disabilities.

#americans-with-disabilities-act, #deafness, #disabilities, #discrimination, #doctors, #health-affairs-journal, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #research, #wheelchairs, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-healthcare, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 12:49 pm on October 17, 2022
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Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?

The organ is “completely ignored by pretty much everyone,” medical experts say, and that omission can be devastating to women’s sexual health.

#anatomy-and-physiology, #doctors, #gynecology-and-gynecologists, #medical-schools, #pelvis, #plastic-surgery, #senses-and-sensation, #sex, #sexual-health-journal, #surgery-and-surgeons, #vagina, #women-and-girls, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 3:06 pm on October 13, 2022
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‘Kind of Awkward’: Doctors Find Themselves on a First-Name Basis

While many physicians may avoid discussing the subject, a study showed that who gets addressed with the honorific “Dr.” may depend on gender, degree and specialty.

#customs-etiquette-and-manners, #discrimination, #doctors, #e-mail, #jama-network-open, #medicine-and-health, #names-personal, #research, #women-and-girls, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-healthcare, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 3:29 pm on October 10, 2022
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‘A New Frontier’ for Hearing Aids

Over-the-counter hearing aids are coming at long last. But lower prices and greater accessibility may take time to materialize.

#ears-and-hearing, #elderly, #food-and-drug-administration, #hearing-aids, #medicare, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 3:46 pm on September 19, 2022
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A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke.

Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.

#anxiety-and-stress, #appalachian-region, #burnout, #community-care-of-west-virginia, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #depression-mental, #doctors, #food-insecurity, #heart, #medicine-and-health, #mental-health-and-disorders, #rural-areas, #vaccination-and-immunization, #west-virginia, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 2:23 am on August 28, 2022
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‘The Best Tool We Have’ for Self-Harming and Suicidal Teens

Studies indicate that dialectical behavior therapy offers greater benefits than more generalized therapy. But treatment is intensive, and expensive.

#american-academy-of-pediatrics, #anxiety-and-stress, #content-type-service, #depression-mental, #emotions, #mental-health-and-disorders, #parenting, #psychology-and-psychologists, #suicides-and-suicide-attempts, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #therapy-and-rehabilitation, #your-feed-health

The New York Times 4:09 pm on August 22, 2022
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A Teen’s Journey Into the Internet’s Darkness and Back Again

As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.

#american-psychological-assn, #anxiety-and-stress, #brain, #computers-and-the-internet, #cyberharassment, #depression-mental, #facebook-inc, #families-and-family-life, #happiness, #instagram-inc, #internal-sub-only, #loneliness, #mental-health-and-disorders, #psychiatry-and-psychiatrists, #psychology-and-psychologists, #salt-lake-city-utah, #sexting, #social-media, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on August 20, 2022
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Pickleball, Sport of the Future Injury?

It’s all fun and games till you strain your Achilles’ tendon, herniate a disc or do a face-plant in the Kitchen.

#epidemiology-journal, #falls, #palm-springs-calif, #pickleball-sport, #san-francisco-calif, #sports-injuries, #tennis, #westchester-county-ny, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:17 pm on August 16, 2022
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Polio May Have Been Spreading in New York Since April

A new study from the C.D.C. provides more details about a polio case detected in New York last month, and suggests the virus has been spreading elsewhere for a year.

#centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #new-york-city, #orange-county-ny, #poliomyelitis, #rockland-county-ny, #sewers-and-sewage, #vaccination-and-immunization, #viruses, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 8:01 pm on August 11, 2022
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C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Eliminating Quarantines

The new guidelines are intended to help prevent severe disease, the agency said.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #education-k-12, #masks, #quarantines, #united-states, #viruses, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 4:55 pm on June 27, 2022
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CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA.

#biology-and-biochemistry, #broad-institute, #clinical-trials, #crispr-dna, #dna-deoxyribonucleic-acid, #doudna-jennifer-a, #ethics-and-official-misconduct, #genetic-engineering, #genetics-and-heredity, #he-jiankui, #nobel-prizes, #science-and-technology, #university-of-california, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 24, 2022
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The Effects of Sleep Debt

Recent studies in humans and mice have shown that late nights and early mornings may cause long lasting damage to your brain.

#brain, #mice, #research, #sleep, #sleep-debt, #trends-in-neurosciences-journal, #veasey-sigrid-c, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 1, 2022
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Liviah’s New Liver: A Family Grapples With a Girl’s Puzzling Hepatitis

A 4-year-old in Ohio is one of hundreds of children worldwide who have developed unexplained liver problems in recent months.

#children-and-childhood, #cincinnati-ohio, #cincinnati-childrens-hospital-medical-center, #families-and-family-life, #hepatitis, #jaundice, #liver, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 1:55 pm on May 29, 2022
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A Balm for Psyches Scarred by War

MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder “represents real hope for long-term healing,” health experts say.

#clinical-trials, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #ecstasy-drug, #iraq-war-2003-11, #johns-hopkins-university, #mental-health-and-disorders, #mithoefer-michael, #multidisciplinary-assn-for-psychedelic-studies, #post-traumatic-stress-disorder, #psychiatry-and-psychiatrists, #therapy-and-rehabilitation, #traumatic-brain-injury, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #united-states-marine-corps, #united-states-navy, #veterans, #veterans-affairs-department, #vietnam-war, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 am on May 29, 2022
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Can I Stop Isolating If I’m Still Testing Positive for the Virus?

Some people may test positive for the coronavirus for 10 days or longer, but interpreting those results remains difficult, experts said.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-omicron-variant, #medicine-and-health, #quarantines, #tests-medical, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 22, 2022
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The Michigan Mink Mystery: How Did an Interspecies Outbreak Unfold?

The puzzling coronavirus cases highlight ongoing surveillance challenges and blind spots.

#agriculture-and-farming, #agriculture-department, #animal-and-plant-health-inspection-service, #animals, #antibodies, #canada, #centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-risks-and-safety-concerns, #deer, #dogs, #livestock, #livestock-diseases, #michigan, #minks-animals, #netherlands, #ontario-canada, #taxidermy, #wisconsin, #your-feed-animals, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 21, 2022
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Daily Aspirin Regimen May Cause Bleeding

Millions of Americans take aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Now, doctors are advising against it — especially for people over 70.

#american-college-of-cardiology, #aspirin, #blood-pressure, #elderly, #heart, #journal-of-the-american-medical-assn, #preventive-medicine, #stroke, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 12:11 am on May 15, 2022
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Common Medications Can Prolong Back Pain, Study Says

A clinical trial will be needed to verify the research, which offered a warning about taking steroids or nonprescription drugs to soothe aches that many experience.

#back-human-body-part, #chronic-condition-health, #dexamethasone-drug, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #ibuprofen-drug, #nonsteroidal-anti-inflammatory-drugs-nsaids, #pain, #research, #science-translational-medicine-journal, #steroids, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 am on May 10, 2022
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Pediatricians Hold the Front Lines of a Mental Health Crisis

Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.

#antidepressants, #anxiety-and-stress, #attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder, #children-and-childhood, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #depression-mental, #doctors, #mental-health-and-disorders, #psychiatry-and-psychiatrists, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 8, 2022
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Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.

#anxiety-and-stress, #aurora-colo, #boston-childrens-hospital, #children-and-childhood, #colorado, #depression-mental, #hospitals, #mental-health-and-disorders, #parenting, #suicides-and-suicide-attempts, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #united-states, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 4, 2022
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The Vanishing Variants: Lessons from Gamma, Iota and Mu

Studying the coronavirus variants that have faded away could help us prepare for what comes next, scientists say.

#colombia, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-delta-variant, #coronavirus-omicron-variant, #genetics-and-heredity, #gisaid-nonprofit, #south-america, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 1:40 pm on May 3, 2022
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What Scientists Know About the Unusual Hepatitis Cases in Children

Officials are exploring the possibility that a common adenovirus might be responsible for the unexplained cases, which remain rare.

#centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #children-and-childhood, #great-britain, #hepatitis, #jaundice, #liver, #viruses, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 4:32 am on April 24, 2022
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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens

Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.

#anxiety-and-stress, #children-and-childhood, #computer-and-video-games, #computers-and-the-internet, #depression-mental, #loneliness, #mental-health-and-disorders, #minneapolis-minn, #parenting, #psychology-and-psychologists, #suicides-and-suicide-attempts, #teenagers-and-adolescence, #therapy-and-rehabilitation, #united-states, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 3:57 pm on April 23, 2022
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Exploring the Health Effects of Ageism

Through more than three decades of research, the Yale psychologist Becca Levy has demonstrated that age discrimination can take years off one’s life.

#age-chronological, #content-type-personal-profile, #discrimination, #elderly, #levy-becca, #longevity, #mental-health-and-disorders, #psychology-and-psychologists, #research, #yale-university, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 am on April 5, 2022
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Learning the Right Way to Struggle

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace.

#education-k-12, #great-britain, #psychology-and-psychologists, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:38 pm on March 29, 2022
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Does Moderate Drinking Protect Your Heart? A Genetic Study Offers a New Answer.

By studying the relationship between gene variants and alcohol consumption, scientists found no real cardiac benefit to drinking, even modestly.

#alcoholic-beverages, #genetics-and-heredity, #heart, #jama-network-open, #research, #your-feed-health, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 3:50 am on March 29, 2022
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Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age.

A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on March 26, 2022
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In Difficult Cases, ‘Families Cannot Manage Death at Home’

Health care researchers argue that hospice facilities could better serve some terminal patients, and ease the burden on exhausted loved ones.

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The New York Times 12:17 am on March 23, 2022
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Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate

Letter by painstaking letter, a man in a completely locked-in state was able to formulate words and sentences using only his thoughts.

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