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Minneapolis police injured protesters with rubber bullets. The city has taken little action.

As police in riot gear approached the demonstrators, Soren Stevenson raised his hands like scores of others and called out, "Hands up, don't shoot."

26 May 2021

International Day of Action for Women’s Health: An Interview with UN Women

In commemoration of the International Day of Action for Women's Health, we interviewed Nazneen Damji, from UN Women, about women's health in 2021.

26 May 2021

Popular television shows can bolster teenagers' mental health

Popular television shows and movies can bolster teenagers' mental health and help them cope with bullying, sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse and depression when these issues are depicted with empathy and appropriate resources are provided, a report published by UCLA's Center for Scholars and Storytellers shows.

26 May 2021

New manifesto created by LGBT+ youth groups calls for a more inclusive society in the UK

A new manifesto created by LGBT+ youth groups and sociolinguistics experts at the University of Nottingham has been launched to call for a more inclusive society in the UK.

25 May 2021

If you are vaccinated, you can dance the night away

Marissa Castrigno was walking through downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, when she spotted the sign in the window of one of her favorite dance clubs.

21 May 2021

Survey assesses health care delays during COVID-19 outbreak

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, a University of Illinois Chicago researcher conducted a survey asking respondents if they experienced health care delays because of the pandemic. In addition to learning about the types of delays, the study also presented a unique opportunity to capture a historic moment at the pandemic's beginning.

21 May 2021

Mistrust in local, national governments is slowing down child vaccination progress in Africa

Mistrust in local and national governments is slowing down child vaccination progress in Africa, which has half of the world's unvaccinated and undervaccinated children, a study shows.

20 May 2021

Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data shows

Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation's campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KHN.

20 May 2021

Seed money: Black entrepreneurs hope pandemic gardening boom will grow healthier eating

Ietef Vita had planned to spend most of 2020 on the road, promoting "Biomimicz," the album the rapper had released on his #plantbasedrecords label in January.

20 May 2021

Users who pinned healthy recipes on social media are more likely to make unhealthy ones

18 May 2021

‘Kicking you when you’re down’: Many cancer patients pay dearly for parking

For cancer patients, the road from diagnosis to survivorship feels like a never-ending parade of medical appointments: surgeries, bloodwork, chemotherapy, radiation treatments, scans.

17 May 2021

Online gambling grew six-fold among regular gamblers during lockdown

Regular gamblers were more than six times more likely to gamble online compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

17 May 2021

Johns Hopkins expert addresses the impact of pandemic on surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem

The COVID-19 pandemic has worked havoc on many aspects of society, health care hardly the least among them. In a new study for the journal Surgical Innovation, Associate Professor Toby Gordon of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School addresses the ways in which the pandemic, as she writes, has "severely weakened the surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem."

13 May 2021

New mums more likely to have postnatal depression during COVID-19 lockdown

Almost half (47.5%) of women with babies aged six months or younger met the threshold for postnatal depression during the first COVID-19 lockdown, more than double average rates for Europe before the pandemic (23%), finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

11 May 2021

Living Memory Home offers virtual and personal memorial space for mourners

When a loved one dies, memories of that person become particularly valuable in connecting the mourners with the deceased. A new Weill Cornell Medicine online application, called Living Memory Home, offers a virtual and personal memorial space that allows mourners to deposit their memories and feelings about their loss and honor their loved one.

11 May 2021

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Minneapolis police injured protesters with rubber bullets. The city has taken little action.

International Day of Action for Women’s Health: An Interview with UN Women

Popular television shows can bolster teenagers' mental health

New manifesto created by LGBT+ youth groups calls for a more inclusive society in the UK

If you are vaccinated, you can dance the night away

Survey assesses health care delays during COVID-19 outbreak

Mistrust in local, national governments is slowing down child vaccination progress in Africa

Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data shows

Seed money: Black entrepreneurs hope pandemic gardening boom will grow healthier eating

Users who pinned healthy recipes on social media are more likely to make unhealthy ones

‘Kicking you when you’re down’: Many cancer patients pay dearly for parking

Online gambling grew six-fold among regular gamblers during lockdown

Johns Hopkins expert addresses the impact of pandemic on surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem

New mums more likely to have postnatal depression during COVID-19 lockdown

Living Memory Home offers virtual and personal memorial space for mourners

Nursing mothers' tweets help understand the factors influencing breastfeeding behaviors

Asthma Awareness: Fighting Asthma in 2021

Brain imaging study reveals patterns in individuals with sensory processing sensitivity

Study shows how politicization and social mobilization affect the incidence of COVID-19 infection

Covered California says health insurance just got too cheap to ignore

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