Category: Health & Wellness
Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died
When Roe v. Wade was overturned, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst is becoming clear.
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Exercise Is Key for Parkinson’s Relief. But Bias, Underdiagnosis Hold Black Patients Back.
‘In Parkinson’s, movement is medicine. So if you’re not figuring out how to engage communities in movement, it’s basically like withholding medication.’
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Most Black Hospitals Across the South Closed Long Ago. Their Impact Endures.
The end of legal racial segregation precipitated the demise of many Black hospitals, which were a major source of employment and a center of pride for Black Americans.
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Simone Biles’ Winning Message Is as Good as Gold
Simone Biles became the most decorated Olympic gymnast in U.S. history by taking time for herself...
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A Closer Look at ER Wait Times
Long ER wait times are problems for patients and hospitals overburdened by serving as alternatives to doctor’s offices and urgent care facilities.
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Surviving Heatwaves: How to Stay Cool When It’s Hot
With temperatures soaring near 100 degrees or more around the country, experts are warning people...
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The Scorching Truth: Extreme Heat is a Wake-Up Call to Act on Climate Change
Heat waves cause or exacerbate a host of illnesses. Air quality is generally worse during extreme heat — a wake-up call to tackle the climate crisis head on.
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Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
Here’s an inconvenient truth: Not much is being recycled at all, nor is the pyrolysis technology capable of curbing the plastic crisis. Not now. Maybe not ever.
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How to Mend the Bias on Older Women’s Health
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage older women’s health.
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Air in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Is Even Worse Than Expected, Real-Time Data Show
Ethylene oxide levels in the heart of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley are more than double the threshold above which the EPA considers cancer risk to be unacceptable.
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‘Creamy Crack’ — Why Relaxers Are Still Being Pushed on Black Women
Linda Villarosa spent a year going to the root of the hair relaxer problem. Here are takeaways on why Black women are being harmed — and what’s being done.
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The Chicken and Egg Problem of Fighting Another Flu Pandemic
Avian flu infections in multiple species far and wide raise the threat that further mutations could create a virus that spreads from human to human through airborne transmission. If they do, pandemic prevention starts with the egg — or alternatives still under research.
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