Depression Is a Pandemic. Let ’s Use the Lessons of COVID-19 to Find Treatments
A version of this article also appeared in theIt’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday. This week, we have a special Mental Health Awareness Month edition of It’s Not Just You. In addition to the piece below, you can read a guest essay from Ciara Alyse Harris, one of the stars of the hit musical, Dear Evan Hansen here.
My dad, who was always intuitive, told us he saw that my little sister’s depression had returned when he printed photographs he’d taken of her. “I could see it in her eyes, like a ghost,” he said. It was an observation born of love a...
Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Susanna Schrobsdorff Tags: Uncategorized It's Not Just You Source Type: news
Depression Is a Pandemic. Let ’s Use the Lessons of COVID-19 to Find Treatments
A version of this article also appeared in theIt’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday. This week, we have a special Mental Health Awareness Month edition of It’s Not Just You. In addition to the piece below, you can read a guest essay from Ciara Alyse Harris, one of the stars of the hit musical, Dear Evan Hansen here.
My dad, who was always intuitive, told us he saw that my little sister’s depression had returned when he printed photographs he’d taken of her. “I could see it in her eyes, like a ghost,” he said. It was an observation born of love a...
Source: TIME: Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Susanna Schrobsdorff Tags: Uncategorized It's Not Just You Source Type: news
Russia ’s Sputnik Diplomacy
This article was originally published in the community blog Persuasion.
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Excerpt: The writer is a journalist and managing editor of Armando.info, an investigative journalism site. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Lares Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Column One: The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu
"My father died in the 1918 flu," my dad told me. Only later did we learn how the pandemic created enduring family secrets and mysteries. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - May 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mitchell Landsberg Source Type: news
New Resource Helps Kids Manage COVID-19-Related Stresses
Texas physicians have unveiled a new tool to help parents support their children whose behavioral health is suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic ’s upheaval.The Texas Medical Association ’s (TMA’s) School Reopening Workgroup, the Texas Pediatric Society (TPS), and members of TMA’s Committee on Behavioral Health produced “Your Child’s Feelings Matter,” a resource in English and Spanish to help parents recognize and support their children ’s reactions to school disruptions and other changes the pandemic has forced upon their young lives. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - May 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic? – podcast
On 22 June 1918, the Manchester Guardian reported that a flu epidemic was moving through the British Isles. It was noted to be ‘by any means a common form of influenza’. Eventually, it took the lives of more than 50 million people around the world. In a special episode to mark the Guardian’s 200th anniversary,Nicola Davis looks back on the 1918 flu pandemic and how it was reported at the time. Speaking to science journalistLaura Spinney, and ex-chief reporter at the Observer and science historianDr Mark Honigsbaum, Nicola asks about the similarities and differences to our experiences with Covid-19, and what we can le...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 5, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Nicola Davis and produced by Madeleine Finlay Tags: Science Coronavirus Infectious diseases History of science Medical research Health Microbiology Source Type: news
Action Health Partners Technology Improvement Award
Action Health Partners in Wenatchee, Washington received a Technology Improvement Award from the NNLM PNR to improve their website in order to provide greater information on and access to AHP services, and better engage and build relationships with volunteers and donors. Here is a report of their project from Paige Bartholomew, Network Support Services Program Coordinator.
Increasing Service Access and Building Relationships Through a Website Update
In 2018, Action Health Partners underwent an organizational rebrand process when the current organizational services no longer aligned with the original charter. Since the rebr...
Source: Dragonfly - April 27, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Maddie Romansic Tags: Blog News from Network Members News from NNLM News From NNLM PNR Technology Source Type: news
Action Health Partners Technology Improvement Award
Action Health Partners in Wenatchee, Washington received a Technology Improvement Award from the NNLM PNR to improve their website in order to provide greater information on and access to AHP services, and better engage and build relationships with volunteers and donors. Here is a report of their project from Paige Bartholomew, Network Support Services Program Coordinator.
Increasing Service Access and Building Relationships Through a Website Update
In 2018, Action Health Partners underwent an organizational rebrand process when the current organizational services no longer aligned with the original charter. Since the rebr...
Source: Dragonfly - April 27, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Maddie Romansic Tags: Blog News from Network Members News from NNLM News From NNLM PNR Technology Source Type: news
How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years
Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Steven Johnson Tags: Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns Epidemics Smallpox Antibiotics Disease Rates Vaccination and Immunization Influenza Epidemic (1918-19) Longevity Population Milk Infant Mortality Statistics Cholera Food and Drug Administrati Source Type: news
'A pillar and stalwart': Hester Ford, the oldest person in US, dies at 115 (or maybe 116)
Hester Ford lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic, two world wars and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Covid-19: The Makings of a Third World War
By Selim JahanApr 16 2021 (IPS-Partners) When we were growing up in the sixties during the time of the Cold War between the USA and the then Soviet Union, we would often hear about a possible Third World War. Sometimes, the situation would get so heated that people would fear the Third World War might not be far away. I still remember the events in 1961, when the threats and counter-threats between President John Kennedy and Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev over the Bay of Pigs reached such an extreme level that a Third World War seemed imminent.
Sixty years have passed since then—and no, there hasn’t been a Third...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Selim Jahan Tags: Health Humanitarian Emergencies Source Type: news
Scientists Report Creating the First Embryo With Human and Non-Human Primate Cells
In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully created the first human-monkey chimera. The work, published in the journal Cell, describes the the first embryo containing both human and monkey cells that was cultured for 20 days. Led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, the study represents the culmination of decades of work in understanding early embryo development in non-human species, which Belmonte hopes will now apply to humans. But it is bound to raise serious ethical questions about the implications of combining human cells with those from a different species (even if it is a closely related one), and the...
Source: TIME: Health - April 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
PNR Weekly Digest: April 13, 2021
Items regarding COVID-19 information are indicated with an *
In the Dragonfly:
NLM Awards 2021-2026 Regional Medical Library Cooperative Agreements
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a new five-year cooperative agreement grant to the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Library to lead the NNLM Regional Medical Library (RML) Region 5 serving a six-state region including Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States. Region 5 is part of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), which will include 7 Regional Medical Libraries (R...
Source: Dragonfly - April 13, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: PNR Weekly Digest Source Type: news
PNR Weekly Digest: April 13, 2021
Items regarding COVID-19 information are indicated with an *
In the Dragonfly:
NLM Awards 2021-2026 Regional Medical Library Cooperative Agreements
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a new five-year cooperative agreement grant to the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Library to lead the NNLM Regional Medical Library (RML) Region 5 serving a six-state region including Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States. Region 5 is part of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), which will include 7 Regional Medical Libraries (R...
Source: Dragonfly - April 13, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: PNR Weekly Digest Source Type: news
