Health
Researchers survey food banks as pandemic bites
A new study is seeking feedback from Australasian food banks on how they are coping with growing demand in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Jul 9, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Students in China's virus centre Wuhan return to school
Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan filed back to class on Wednesday, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners.
May 6, 2020
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Health
Expert discusses why middle-class black women dread the doctor's office
The anxiety of being black, female and at the mercy of the U.S. healthcare system first hit Tina Sacks when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Bette Parks Sacks, then in her 50s, intuitively knew something was wrong ...
Jan 21, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Good relationships with siblings may buffer the effects of family conflict
Children who are exposed to hostile, escalating conflicts between parents are at increased risk for developing mental health problems. However, many children from homes marked by conflict don't experience significant psychological ...
Jun 19, 2018
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Health
Structural racism, mass incarceration, and health care system fuel growing health inequalities in the US
Structural racism, mass incarceration, and the widening income gap between rich and poor all feed growing health inequalities in the USA, which the health care system—by its very design and financing - only helps exacerbate, ...
Apr 7, 2017
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Health
Vaccine scandal highlights Indonesian health system woes
A scandal over fake vaccines given to children prompted angry and confused parents to physically attack a doctor in the Indonesian capital in a sign of deep-seated problems in the country's health system.
Jul 22, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Word choice—hidden meanings can influence our judgment
Why is it worse when someone causes work for us rather than produces work for us? Why does each word prompt a different interpretation of "work," with "caused" work seeming burdensome and "produced" work seeming advantageous?
Jun 7, 2016
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Health
CDC offers guidelines for schools' sex education topics
The federal Centers for Disease Control has identified 16 topics which it says should be included in sex education classes offered to high school students in the U.S. Fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle ...
Jan 18, 2016
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Health
China suffers 250,000 road deaths a year: WHO
More than 250,000 people are killed on China's notoriously dangerous roads every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said—over four times official government statistics.
Oct 20, 2015
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Health
Black identity and America's lingering racism
What it means to be black in America today lies at the complex intersection of race, class and space, says Tufts sociologist Orly Clerge, who is working on a book about the diversity of black identity in the United States. ...
Feb 23, 2015
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