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By Azeen Ghorayshi, Photo: Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 23, 2022 Gov. Greg Abbott told state health agencies in Texas on Tuesday that medical treatments provided to transgender adolescents, widely considered to be the standard of care in medicine, should be classified as “child abuse” under existing state law. His statements, made in a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, followed an opinion on Friday by Attorney General Ken...

By Elana Spivack, Inverse, February 21, 2022 IN 2018 , Bruce Hood wondered if there was a way to teach well-being. "A lot of universities [are] waking up to the fact that students are experiencing terrible problems with mental well-being," Hood tells Inverse . The University of Bristol, where Hood is a psychology professor, had experienced 11 student suicides between October 2016 and April 2018 . "I was very concerned." That same year, Hood's former Ph.D. student, Laurie Santos , pioneered a...

By Pritpal S Tamber, Photo: Unsplash, Pritpal S Tamber, February 24, 2022 In my last post , I illustrated the different types of outcomes that have been reported in research that examined the link between community power and health. It was based on the 12 articles that were classified as high-quality of the 93 that we found in our review . That leaves me 81 to summarize. To be honest, I cannot think of anything more boring than me listing all of the outcomes from the 45 articles classified...

By Pitchfork Economics, February 22, 2022 We often discuss abortion as an issue of bodily autonomy, personal rights, and reproductive justice. Of course it’s all of those things, but it’s also an economic issue. Access (or lack thereof) to an abortion profoundly affects women’s lives by determining if, when, and under what circumstances they become mothers. Whether or not women have access to abortion can change the direction of their lives, affecting educational attainment, labor force...

By Thomas Cangelosi, Photo: Mark Pazniokas/CTMirror.org, The CT Mirror, February 23, 2022 According to a recent NBC news poll, when Americans were asked about the country’s present direction, the top answers were “downhill,” “divisive,” “negative,” “struggling,” “lost,” and “bad.” The poll also indicated that the public’s interest in the upcoming midterm election is down. In other words, many Americans feel pessimistic, conflicted, and powerless to change our “downhill” slide. As someone...

By Kristen Griffith, Photo: Michael Theis/The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 23, 2022 Elizabeth Vermillera, a retired pharmaceutical technician, spends her days handing out donated clothes and food to people in Baltimore. Since 1997, she has lived in the three-level rowhouse on East Monument Street that her dad gave her, a home she shares with a Shih Tzu and a fox terrier. Occasionally, neighbors trying to get back on their feet after hard times will stay...

By Gary Abernathy, Photo: Kati Burwinkel, The Washington Post, February 22, 2022 Let’s start with a tragedy: Since the 2020 election, 37 states have introduced legislation designed to limit how Black history can be taught, especially in its relation to institutional racism, and 14 states have successfully imposed such laws, according to Education Week . Efforts requiring schools to play down examples of historic racism if anyone is made to feel “discomfort” or “guilt” are confounding to me...

Meet African War Hero Who Sank A German Ship With Bomb Made From Milk-Can But Was Refused Highest Decoration During World War II, Job Maseko , a South African war hero, sunk an enemy ship with an improvised bomb hidden in a milk container. Maseko, a member of the South African Native Military Corps (NMC), was awarded the Military Medal for his “meritorious and courageous” action, which he described as demonstrating “ingenuity, resolve, and full disregard for personal safety.” The Military...

I recently listened to an interview featuring David Richo. He wrote a book several years ago, How to be An Adult in Relationships , in which he explained what he calls the Five A’s that help relationships flourish. What he said made so much sense, and I saw applications beyond individual relationships. I believe we can use the Five A’s to better understand relationships with others and ourselves and even apply it to other contexts. He explained that the Five A’s are what we need as infants...

DO YOU NEED A FUNTERVENTION? (IF YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF, THE ANSWER IS “YES.”) Join KPJR Book Club Author Catherine Price as she discusses her latest book... "The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again" Q&A Moderated by Alice Forrester, PhD, CEO, Clifford Beers Clinic Watch Now! Dubbed “The Marie Kondo of Brains” by The New York Times , Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of numerous books, including How to Break Up...

By Zach Solon Published: Feb. 23, 2022 at 9:40 PM EST | Updated: 13 hours ago WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A new dashboard tool aims to provide a central location for socioeconomic health data for the Cape Fear region. The Cape Fear Collective launched the Healthy Communities NC dashboard this week. The site provides a breakdown of 21 social health factors, broken down by region and county. These factors include third grade reading levels and life expectancy. “This data is all publicly...

By Claudia M. Gold, MD, February 22, 2022 For the past several weeks I’ve had the privilege of leading a course in Community-Based Early Relational Health. My students come from a broad variety of disciplines- physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, home visitors, program director, among others. They are at different stages of their professional lives. One home visitor works with young adults who have recently aged out of the foster care system and are now parents of...