What the health are we doing to ourselves and the planet?

Stronger hurricanes are becoming more common in a warmer climate. Researchers suggest that the most damaging U.S. hurricanes are three times more frequent than 100 years ago, and that the proportion of major hurricanes (Category 3 or above) in the Atlantic Ocean has doubled since 1980. The damage we've seen from catastrophic hurricanes in recent years shows we need science more than ever to help us prepare for — and act on — climate change - Environmental Defense Fund

Issues that Matter

Gaza Crisis

Around 80 percent of people in Gaza relied on humanitarian aid prior to the invasion, putting them in an already vulnerable position - Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea

School Shootings

We cannot protect our guns before we protect our children - Florence Yared, Parkland school shooting survivor

Border Crisis

The American way of life and the future of our natural environment and resource base depends on restoring the proper balance between our needs and the unlimited demands of millions on the move - FAIR

Abortion Access

Access to safe and legal abortion is a matter of human rights, and its availability is the best way to protect autonomy and reduce maternal mortality and morbidity - Human Rights Watch

Sudan Crisis

It’s one of the world’s most serious current crises – and yet, this conflict is being deemed forgotten - Jorgelina Manna-Rea

Children of today shouldn’t be in school learning how to survive a mass shooting. They should not be the ones navigating and leading their parents through one. It is sick and perverse. America no longer feels safe for anyone - James Woods

CovidNow

The version of the Covid-19 virus behind the latest spike in infections shares many of the same symptoms as earlier variants of Sars-CoV-2 : a sore throat, fatigue, headache and a cough. Differences in the symptoms often depend on a person's underlying health and their immune system - David Cox

Fentanyl

Counterfeit pills are a big part of the story. High-quality pill presses can make the substance look like a legitimate medication. They look for all the world like the real thing - Daniel Ciccarone

Political Violence

The moral and political imperatives are clear. Political violence must be universally condemned - David French

Censorship in Health

America’s public-health establishment has become a threat to individual liberty - Carl J. Schramm

Abortion Pill Access

The abortion pill is safe and easy—and it could give American women unprecedented reproductive autonomy. Its political opponents have spent over a decade ensuring this doesn't happen - Gabby Bess

IVF Access

Limited information, restrictive laws and policies, stigma, high cost, and other barriers put infertility care, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), out of reach for many, especially people from marginalized communities - Center for Reproductive Rights

DEI & Healthcare

Health care was once moderately immune to the anti-diversity, anti-equity, and anti-inclusion craze. Not anymore - David Velasquez

Climate Change

In a sense, climate change is an opportunity for us to step up—to grow up—as a species.- Emma Marris

Environmental Health

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink - HWN

Obesity

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity - Madeleine M. Kunin

Bird Flu (Avian Influenza)

I know exactly what amino acids I have to change because in 2012, against my recommendation, the scientists that did these experiments actually published them. So, the recipe for how to make bird flu highly infection for humans is already out there - Robert Redfield MD

Mounjaro & Zepbound (Tirzepatide)

What these drugs can’t fix is what underlies the “obesity epidemic” — a culture that continues to hate fat people, a health-care system that incentivizes our weight loss over our actual well-being, and a food system that denies us access to whole, healthy foods - Samhita Mukhopadhyay

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Lightning Strikes

Remember: No place outside is safe during a thunderstorm, so when thunder roars – go indoors. When you see the clouds building up, hear thunder or see a flash of lightning, it’s time to dash inside to a lightning-safe place - Chris Vagasky Meteorologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Insect Repellents

Before you crack open the anti-insect sprays, first think about all the non-toxic things you can do to keep them away - David Suzuki Foundation

Sunscreen

If you’re relying on that bottle of sunscreen to protect you from all the risks of sun exposure, you’re not seeing the big picture - Kris Carr

Ozempic Face

The downside of the most talked about weight-loss treatment - Aestha Clinic

Medical Gaslighting

Be your own best advocate and refuse to have your own instincts and sanity belittled. You have the power. Use it - Shilo Zylbergold

Prebiotic Sodas

Prebiotic sodas aren’t likely to harm your health... but it’s also not likely that they’ll be beneficial - Marion Nestle

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price - Gabriel J.X. Dance

THC Gummies

It’s too available out there for all these kids in these schools. It’s just ridiculous - Jessica Harris

Short Workouts

There are certainly ‘optimal’ ways to train, but you can see increased mobility, better sleep, better strength and increased bone density with shorter, simpler workouts - Barb Puzanovova

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere - Alexandra Paul

Cosmetic Health

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Maria Mitchell

Child Care

Child care should be universal and well-paid — not just affordable - Michelle Chen

Anger Management

The first step is to recognize that you’re angry - Christina Caron

Anger

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Venting

Venting is not an effective strategy for anyone trying to cope with daily stress, whether they have perfectionistic tendencies or not. Research clearly shows that venting increases rather than decreases stress - Brad J. Bushman

School Lunches

School meals have the potential to serve as a safety net for us all - Megan A. Carney

Domestic Violence

As tears fall from her face she begins to sway. Love shouldn't hurt this way - Diana Rasmussen, Snow White Darkness

Birth Control Pill Access

Envisioning a future where birth control pills are available over the counter in the United States, fully covered by insurance, priced affordably, and accessible to people of all ages, identities, and backgrounds - Free The Pill

Ketamine & Depression

The most exciting treatment to come to the fore - Mason Turner

Titanium Dioxide

If you have heard of titanium dioxide at all, you probably know it as an ingredient in sunscreen. But it is also used in lots of foods - Andrea Petersen

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

The pendulum had swung very far away from the use of hormone therapy for any purpose, but the absolute risk in younger women in early menopause appears to be very small - JoAnn Manson

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Professionals

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams

Careers in Healthcare

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night - Marilyn Monroe

Burnout & Healthcare

Congratulations if you aren’t burned out. Perhaps you learned to play the guitar, wrote a screenplay, or took up French during the pandemic. But if you’re like me and most of my patients, you’re running on fumes - Lucy McBride

History of Medicine

First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign - Hippocrates 430BC

Nurses

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors - Gerhard Kocher

Doctors

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled - Elizabeth Blackwell

Inside the ER Emergencies

When I come on to my shift, I don’t have any clue what I’m going to see - Kathleen Clem MD

Emergencies Outside the ER

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination - Al Gore

Sneaky Emergencies

Some patients may, indeed, have “classic” presentations of these disease processes. On the other hand, other patients may have more subtle signs and symptoms - Sarah Brubaker MD and Brit Long MD

Business of Health

Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual - Elizabeth Holmes

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us - David Gelernter

Emerging Technology

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge - Stephen Hawking

StaynHealthy

When it comes to health, I hope we can help the next generations understand that there isn’t always an app for that - Doris Iarovici MD

Mental Health

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body - Cicero

Sleep & Health

O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep, Natures Soft Nurse, How Have I Frightend Thee, That Thou No More Wilt Weigh my Eye-Lids Down And Steep My Senses In Forgetfulness? - William Shakespeare

Fitness

There’s a fitness revolution at work here, A lot of people are reconsidering what works for them, and also becoming more flexible and more open to different types of fitness - Shanel Anderson

Eat

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live - Socrates

Drink

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not - Mark Twain

Home Genetic Tests

Is it worth $199 to reveal your genetic code to a private company with big links to Big Data for the mere benefit of perhaps connecting with fifth-degree cousins - Elaina Baker

23andMe

If 23andMe has your genetic data, it’s selling a big part of you - Lily Hay Newman

DIY (Do It Yourself) Healthcare

If you had asked me about the idea of it 20 years ago I would've been skeptical and said you've been watching too much Star Trek. But today, we're as close as we've ever been to having Dr. Bones McCoy's tricorder, the seemingly magical device that could scan a patient quickly and report critical health data - Inmar Intelligence

Challenges

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always I am healthily in body and mind - Swami Sivananda

Diabetes

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring - Heidi Murkoff

Cancer

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset - Dave Pelzer

Heart

Wherever you go, go with all your heart - Confucius

Drugs

Should I take drugs? Of course, you already do. Caffeine is a drug. Alcohol is a drug. Ibuprofen is a drug. Acetaminophen is a drug. Anesthetics are drugs. You, my friend, are a drug user - Greggory Moore

Addiction

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism - Carl Jung

Fitness

There’s a fitness revolution at work here, A lot of people are reconsidering what works for them, and also becoming more flexible and more open to different types of fitness - Shanel Anderson

Heat Related Illness

Contrary to popular belief, heat illnesses do not exist on a continuum. You do not need to have heat cramps or syncope before you have heat exhaustion - Korey Stringer Institute

Exertional Sickling

There continues to be a great deal of controversy surrounding sickle cell trait and its association with exercise-related morbidity and sudden death - Bruce L. Mitchell

Jet Lag

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries - Rene Descartes

Birth Tourism

I am frustrated -- and I have to be honest, angered -- by the fact that as a society we are being abused. I think we are a very generous society - Saul Pytka MD

Medical Tourism

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey – Pat Conroy

It's a complicated time with so much information and along with it, disinformation, and we just want to just cut through the noise - Shepherd Smith

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