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The Digital Wellness Lab aims to mediate between TikTok and parents

The Digital Wellness Lab is trying to address concerns about kids' social media use.

Axios · Mar 28, 2023

Virtual or in person: Which kind of doctor’s visit is better, and when it matters

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country in early 2020 and emptied doctors’ offices nationwide, telemedicine was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Patients and their physicians turned to virtual visits by video or phone rather than risk meeting face-to-face.

Tribune News Service · Mar 13, 2023

Getting good sleep could add years to your life, study suggests

The findings indicate simply getting enough sleep is not good enough, and that the quality of sleep has an important role to play, researchers say.

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Experimental decoy drug tricks coronavirus, then destroys it

The coronavirus has been a shifty foe, with new variants and subvariants rapidly evolving to evade vaccines and treatments. Researchers at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are working on an experimental drug that takes one of the virus’ most dangerous traits — its talent for mutation — and turns it back…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 8, 2022

Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes Make Anxious Smokers Smoke Less

According to Penn State College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School researchers, reducing the quantity of nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels may help smokers with mood or anxiety issues quit without harming their mental health. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Nov 27, 2022

This ain’t your grandpa’s weed

As marijuana products get stronger, experts and policy-makers grapple with safety and health questions

Salon · Oct 21, 2022

Millennial Money: Learn — don’t run — from your inner critic

Most people have an inner critic that sometimes judges their actions and behaviors, including those related to money

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2022

The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee

Lee was a diorama-maker, criminal investigation educator and the first female police captain in the US.

Al Jazeera · Sep 11, 2022

Commentary: I am California’s acting surgeon general. And I have bipolar disorder

In 2011 I was a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. I was on my psychiatry rotation — and I had a secret.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 30, 2022

‘You are not being heard’: the devastating black maternal mortality crisis in the US

Aftershock, a grimly revealing new documentary, focuses on grieving families in a system that endangers women of colour

The Guardian - US · Jul 21, 2022