Toxic masculinity is the idea men or masc people have to act unemotional, in-control, and dominant in order to be considered valid in their gender. While overt acts of sexism can be easy to spot, it can bleeding into our relationships subtly. Here are four ways toxic masculinity shows up in your relationships, according to a therapist. If your partner […]
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In a conversation, we can easily understand and distinguish individual words. In the brain, the temporal structure of speech with its rapid succession of sounds and pauses and its characteristic rhythm is encoded by electrical impulses. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered that nerve cells can only […]
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Workout buddies can make your exercise much more enjoyable – but are they allowed during the coronavirus lockdown? Stop beating yourself up if your lockdown workouts have been feeling a bit flat. Firstly, it’s a pandemic! It’s OK to not be the strongest or fittest you’ve ever been. And secondly, if you’re not used to working out on your own, […]
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Some diseases are more likely to enter public conversation than others. COVID-19 has dominated the public discourse in 2020, while cancer and AIDS are high-profile diseases that attract significant scientific and media attention. You can safely discuss these diseases around the dinner table. Other diseases, such as scabies, not so much. Scabies is classed as a neglected tropical disease. It’s […]
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Fox News Go The U.S. reached a record high in daily, new coronavirus cases with over 120,000 infections on Thursday, per data from Johns Hopkins University. The news comes just one day after the nation broke past 100,000 daily cases on Wednesday. Thursday's 121,888 cases contribute to a total of over 9.6 million cases and over 234,000 deaths in the U.S., according to […]
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New York City is launching a new pilot program that will send mental health experts instead of police officers to respond to 911 calls that are mental health related and nonviolent. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday the new program, which will dispatch Emergency Medical Services health professionals and mental health crisis workers to select 911 calls in two […]
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Like many industries, the healthcare sector has a gender parity issue when it comes to leadership positions. Despite countless conversations around the issue, in 2019 women only made up 23.7% of executives of Fortune 500 healthcare companies and 37.1% of hospital executives, according to Rock Health. The numbers were even worse in the startup world, where only 14% of digital health deals […]
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Similar to bacteria evolving resistance to antibiotics, viruses can evolve resistance to vaccines, and the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 could undermine the effectiveness of vaccines that are currently under development, according to a paper published November 9 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by David Kennedy and Andrew Read from Pennsylvania State University, U.S. The authors also offer recommendations to vaccine […]
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A survey found that two-thirds of Americans are stressed out about the presidential election. Political polarization, concerns about potential post-election conflict, and pandemic-related worries are adding to the anxiety that many people feel. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and stressed, there are simple steps you can take to calm down. If you’re feeling stressed about the election, you’re not alone. In […]
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Around one in 20 adults will hear a voice at some point in their life. For some, the voices are friendly, helpful or inspiring—they can be enriching experiences. But others hear voices that threaten or criticize them. These can be frightening, and incredibly disruptive to daily life. While progress has been made in recent years to tackle stigma for common […]
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