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Black women talk mental health and healing in powerful roundtable discussion | Nightline

Black women talk mental health and healing in powerful roundtable discussion | Nightline

ABC News’s Janai Norman speaks with poet and activist Tricia Hersey, actor and activist Ianne Fields Stewart, and therapist Dr. Teresa Taylor Williams. WATCH NIGHTLINE EPISODES: https://abc.go.com/shows/nightline ALSO AVAILABLE ON HULU: https://hulu.tv/2wSmSrZ #nightline source You Might Also Like! What’s your approach to health? Check your medicine cabinet Do all kids spy? Just me? When I […]

Helene’s health risks include contaminated water and mold: Doctors

Helene’s health risks include contaminated water and mold: Doctors

(NewsNation) — As authorities in the path of Hurricane Helene continue to hunt for missing people, the dangers for those who survived the wind and flooding are many, including contaminated water and mold. “Symptoms from infection with waterborne pathogens can include gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever, and headache,” said Alasdair Cohen, an assistant professor […]

Two-thirds say health care not getting enough attention in election: Gallup

Two-thirds say health care not getting enough attention in election: Gallup

Two-thirds of Americans say health care is not getting enough attention from both political parties in the presidential election, a new survey found. According to the survey, conducted by Gallup and nonprofit West Health, 67 percent of respondents in both parties say health care is not receiving enough attention. Just 6 percent say it’s getting […]

New report recommends larger role for CDC in cannabis public health policy

New report recommends larger role for CDC in cannabis public health policy

A federal advisory panel is recommending the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) take a larger role in policymaking around cannabis, as its use among Americans continues to grow. A report issued Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) outlined several recommendations for the CDC regarding how the agency can […]

8 Signs that Someone is Battling Mental Health Problems

8 Signs that Someone is Battling Mental Health Problems

Depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behaviors are some examples of mental disorders, which affect your mood, thinking, and behavior for a sustained period of time. The stigma around mental health can sometimes make people afraid to reach out for help or support. Do you often feel detached, tired, uninterested, insomnic, or hypersomic, […]

Senate holds Steward Health CEO in contempt of Congress

Senate holds Steward Health CEO in contempt of Congress

The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution Wednesday to hold the CEO of Steward Health Care in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena and refusing to appear at a hearing.   The matter will now be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to criminally prosecute Ralph de la Torre for failing […]

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? – Anees Bahji

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? – Anees Bahji

Dig into the psychiatric conditions of eating disorders, and explore the complex effects they have on the body and mind. — Globally, about 10% of people will experience an eating disorder during their lifetime. And yet, eating disorders are profoundly misunderstood. Misconceptions about everything from symptoms to treatment make it difficult to navigate an eating […]

How America’s health care system fails women in pain

How America’s health care system fails women in pain

For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying after she began experiencing unusually heavy and “very, very painful” periods when she was 12 or 13. “Some women have it harder than others.”  During another visit, she recalls rating the […]

Six NHS schemes that could help fix the health service

Six NHS schemes that could help fix the health service

Labour is planning the biggest reimagining of the NHS in its history. Do these schemes provide the answer? Source link You Might Also Like! What’s your approach to health? Check your medicine cabinet Do all kids spy? Just me? When I was a child, I spent hours snooping in my parents’ nightstands, Granny’s ENGAGE+ How […]

Health warning over face-slap fighting

Health warning over face-slap fighting

Concussion is traumatic injury that can happen with a blow to the head as the brain moves inside the hard skull. There can be short-term headaches, blurred vision, vomiting, slurred speech, drowsiness or confusion and memory, balance, mood or sleep problems. A single concussion will not usually cause permanent damage, but repeated ones over a […]