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By Arline T. Geronimus, Illustration: Getty Images, Time Magazine, March 28, 2023 The pathologists who performed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s autopsy noted he had the heart of a 60 year old , although he was 39 when he died. His damaged heart was duly noted in the official record as a curiosity, but there was no question as to the cause of death: homicide; indeed, assassination. A racist hate crime. But if we were to try to understand the poor condition of his heart, we might be flummoxed.

By Ben Conarck and Adam Williams, Photo: Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner, The Baltimore Banner, March 30, 2023 A years-long evaluation into the effectiveness of Baltimore’s flagship gun violence intervention program, Safe Streets, found that several of its outposts significantly reduced nearby shootings, resulting in fewer homicides, despite “relatively modest” costs to the city and challenges in staffing the inherently dangerous work. The report , led by Johns Hopkins professor Daniel...

By George Institute for Global Health, SciTechDaily, April 3, 2023 The world’s first study to examine the correlation between gender equality and life expectancy has revealed that both women and men live longer as gender equality improves. However, variations in the results between countries grouped by socioeconomic development and geographic proximity indicate that while the improvement in gender equality initially primarily benefits women’s lives and health, it also leads to longer life...

By David Rettew, Psychology Today, February 22, 2023 The last decade of the 1990s was often labeled the “Decade of the Brain,” as many mental health clinicians and researchers emphasized biological and genetic factors as contributing to both mental health and illness. Over the last 15 or so years however, the pendulum has swung the other way, with a lot of focus on the role of traumatic and adverse experiences as the primary contributors to mental health disorders. Included in the expanded...

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The secret to human progress, vitality and health over the centuries is better sanitation, nutrition and vaccinations. Contemporary anti-science and anti-vax politics and culture in the name of freedom is tragically mistaken. Protect and save our children!

Post from information from the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. Call for Fellowship Applications! The all-expenses-paid fellowship, to be held July 16–20, 2023, is designed for journalists who want to do groundbreaking reporting on health disparities and on vulnerable children, youth and families, and the community conditions and social forces that contribute to their health, welfare and well-being. Each fellow spends five months working on a...

The Supreme Court Is Harming Public Health and the Environment, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD 1 ; Sarah Wetter, JD, MPH 1 JAMA . Published online March 31, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.3564 A fundamental shift in the Supreme Court was set in motion in 2020 with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett as his third appointee, forming a conservative 6-3 supermajority. The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence is having a profound effect on public health, safety, and...

By Dr. Allison Stephens, 3/31/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The recent Supreme Court decision, Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools , was a victory for students with disabilities and their families. It is also an opportunity to highlight March as National Disability Awareness Month . In this case, the school provided a deaf student an aide that was not trained to work with deaf students, leaving him with limited communication and instruction. The student experienced...

Subconscious Clearing. Learn Now From A Real Case, the Doctors from the ACE Study, Vincent Felitti, MD and Brian Alman, PhD. You Learned How to De-Clutter from your adverse childhood experiences and adverse life experiences: If You Attended Yesterday’s Webinar at https://www.DrBrianAlman.com. How Much Do You Understand About Your Motivation, Your Brain, Your Mind, Your Internal Clutter And Your Reactions To Your ACEs, Traumas or Adverse Life Experiences? VERY FEW PEOPLE Know How-To Clear and...

A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision requiring all insurers to cover certain preventive services free of charge, angering the law's supporters. "Individual Plaintiffs need not comply with the preventive care coverage recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued on or after March 23, 2010 [the date the ACA was enacted], because the members of the Task Force have not been appointed in a manner consistent with Article II's...

By Dave Davies, Photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images, National Public Radio (NPR), March 28, 2023 In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years , largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American people lost an average of 4.5 years of life expectancy ; Black and Hispanic people lost, on average, 3 years, while white people lost only 1.2 years. This figure tracks with other health trends: In...