HBO's docuseries "The Vow" examines the sex cult NXIVM and asks the central question: "How does someone get wrapped up in a dangerous cult?" According to therapist Rachel Bernstein, who treats former cult members, there isn't one profile or set of traits that make someone susceptible. Rather, it's a mixture of wanting self-improvement and community, as well as timing. Visit […]
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Not everyone is fortunate enough to love going to work every day. For workers at grocery chain Publix, though, the workday seems like a pretty positive experience. The internet is filled with positive reviews from happy employees who swear that Publix is a great place to work. On Glassdoor, current and past employees have given Publix 3.9 out of 5 […]
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Southwestern Health Resources in Dallas, Texas, is a clinically integrated network with 5,500 community providers and more than 700,000 covered lives in North Texas. As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. THE PROBLEM When the pandemic began, Southwestern was very concerned about its most at-risk […]
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New research released from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus proposes that Alzheimer’s disease may be driven by the overactivation of fructose made in the brain. The study was published in the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience and outlined the hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease is driven largely by Western culture that has resulted in excessive fructose metabolism in the brain. […]
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A new report shows the strong impact Connecticut’s Statewide Opioid Reporting Directive (SWORD) is having in its first year of tracking opioid overdoses. The initiative was created by a state law passed in 2018 and fully implemented in June 2019 that required all hospitals and emergency medical service (EMS) companies statewide to begin reporting all opioid overdoses to the state […]
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It’s 1:36 a.m. and I’ve just gotten my daughter back to sleep after she threw up violently. She has no fever, no cough, no shortness of breath, but what if…. I think it’s food poisoning and not COVID-19, but I can’t know for sure. Not knowing is hard. I’ll call the pediatrician in the morning, but for tonight I’m left […]
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Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease due to its often late diagnosis and its unresponsiveness to current therapies. It is estimated that 57,600 new cases were diagnosed in 2020 in the U.S., with a dismal 10%five-year survival rate. For a study published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition, a research team led by CUNY SPH Associate Professor Dr. Ghada […]
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Young adults who are lax with abiding by COVID-19 protocols score low on the honesty-humility and conscientiousness categories of a scale measuring personality traits, says new Brock University research. The recently released study, “The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults,” found that introverts find it more difficult coping with the isolation of lockdowns than their […]
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Pregnant women are susceptible individuals in whom flu can lead to serious complications like pneumonia and the associated high fever can lead to birth defects in the unborn child By Dr Ritu Sethi “There is no cure for love or flu, they both pass with time” Influenza or seasonal ‘flu’ as it is commonly called is a viral illness that […]
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New research presented at this week’s ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID, held online from 23-25 September) shows that having a lower level of zinc in the blood is associated with a poorer outcome in patients with COVID-19. The study is by Dr. Roberto Güerri-Fernández, Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues. Increased intracellular zinc concentrations efficiently impair replication/reproduction of […]
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