ICYMI: Cancer While Pregnant And Why Predicting Mass Shootings Is Futile

ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, we tuned in for the stellar first episode of Only Human, a new podcast from WYNC about how health shapes our lives. Podcast host and journalist Mary Harris chronicled her experience having breast cancer while she was pregnant with her second child, and left us more than ready for episode two. In the wake of a mass shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, we spent time with a thoughtful essay, focused on a frustrated Columbia University psychiatrist, who told Science of Us he was finished talking with reporters about the causes of violence in mass shootings. "If you tell me that there’s nothing we can do about guns, I’d say then we’re done," Dr. Paul Appelbaum said. "We’ve conceded that we are willing to tolerate periodic slaughters of the innocent. There’s nothing more to say." Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, listen to and love this week? 1. Watching Highbrow TV May Actually Make You A Better Person -- The Huffington Post People who watched fictional television dramas performed better on an emotional intelligence test than those who viewed documentaries, according to a new study.   Dramas are notorious for diving into human nature (who hasn't felt invested in a character while watching a show like 'The Good Wife?'), while the documentaries are less provocative when it comes to human emotions (no offense ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news