Psychology & Psychiatry
What are microaggressions, and how can they affect our health?
Microaggressions are seemingly innocuous verbal, behavioral or environmental slights against members of minority communities.
Apr 4, 2023
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Health
Indigenous women face outsized hardships giving birth in Northwest Territories
A UBC student researcher is looking at how the lack of health care resources for pregnant women living in the Northwest Territories influences their delivery and overall wellbeing.
Mar 16, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality
In the most comprehensive analysis of ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes to date, a major new global study has found that ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of severe illness and death during the ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Digital content could be altering your visual perception
So much of modern life is spent on screens: Zoom meetings and websites, smartphones and video games, televisions and social media. How are all those pixels and rectangles affecting how we see?
Feb 21, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Some Latinos don't trust Western mental health. That's where curanderos come in
Grace Sesma works methodically to set up her home office, lighting candles and cutting thorns from seven stemmed red roses for the day's first session as her client chatters nearby.
Feb 13, 2023
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Cardiology
Indigenous populations may have higher stroke risk
In highly developed countries, Indigenous populations may have a higher rate of stroke, according to new research that highlights a dire need for more data and well-designed studies.
Feb 6, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows Indigenous patients with autoimmune liver disease face worse symptoms and outcomes
First Nations, Métis and Inuit people with primary biliary cholangitis—a debilitating autoimmune liver disease—have more advanced symptoms at diagnosis and worse long-term outcomes than others in Canada, according to ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Medications
Australia to legalise MDMA and magic mushrooms for medical use
Australia's drugs watchdog on Friday announced that psychedelic substances MDMA and psilocybin—more commonly known as ecstasy and magic mushrooms—will soon be used in the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress.
Feb 3, 2023
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Medical economics
COVID accelerated it, but the decline in life expectancy for Native Americans has been in the making for generations
Six and one-half years.
Feb 3, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Cries for help pour into 988 mental health, suicide line
When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or "suicidio"
Jan 10, 2023
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