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The Conversation: Health Health
Vape products from only six manufacturers can now be sold in Pennsylvania.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
This essay contains mild spoilers for the novel Klara and the Sun. The baby, my baby, was to be named Josie. Josie Joy. But when she was born, she was decidedly not a Josie. The name was too soft, too ethereal for such a sentient...
The Conversation: Health Nutrition
There’s no doubt that the modern food environment needs to be healthier. But are ultraprocessed foods as evil as their reputation suggests?
Mindful Mind
A reflection on the late poet Mary Oliver, and what her work modeled for us and asks of us now.
NPR Health Health
Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, families are often on their own — and on the street.
NPR Health Sleep
For the first time since 2014, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has updated its guidelines for the treatment of symptoms commonly associated with menopause.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal—a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank...
The Conversation: Health Mind
Therapy during pregnancy for those who need it may have advantages for the next generation.
The Conversation: Health Health
Extreme hot and cold temperatures are associated with higher rates of deaths, infirmary admissions and transfers to external medical facilities, researchers found.
The Conversation: Health Mind
Kids have found ways around most of the safeguards meant to keep them off social media platforms.
NPR Health Health
For StoryCorps, a public health nurse in Minnesota speaks with her college mentor about a moment when she almost gave up on her career aspirations.
Mindful Mind
October’s Teacher of the Month is a new voice to Mindful: musician Thaddaeus Washington. As a Toledo-based artist and founder of MIND Music, Thadd sees music as medicine and offers his original compositions as meditative practices.
Mindful Mind
We have more technological assistance with daily tasks, more self-care, and more sedentary hours than any previous generation. So why are we still so exhausted? And what do we actually need to help us feel restored?
NPR Health Health
Health and science correspondent Allison Aubrey talks with Ailsa Chang about her new podcast Your Turn with Allison Aubrey — and they share a survey that can help us identify our most positive character traits.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
The AASM has launched a new My Learning experience to help you more easily find and manage educational resources. The updated platform continues to provide the evidence-based resources you rely on while offering a more personalized...
The Conversation: Health Health
The growing availability of these substances is worsening the already bad problem of sexual assault on campus.
NPR Health Health
The Trump administration provided few details about its process for canceling hundreds of thousands of Affordable Care Act enrollments — even as the next stage of the anti-fraud effort is underway.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Dr. David Spiegel leads us in a practice of cyclic sighing, a simple breathing technique that uses slow, extended exhales to calm your nervous system, ease stress and anxiety, and help you feel more relaxed.
NPR Health Health
Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.
The Conversation: Health Health
The Trump administration exerted increased political control over NIH research funding, leading to major cuts and disruptions to lifesaving research.
Mindful Mind
One of the core principles of mindfulness is learning the practice of not reacting to everything that's going on inside and around us. But where do we begin?
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Raising a teen is one of the last chapters in parenting. During these years, it’s easy to prioritize your child’s grades, sports, and other accolades, especially as they inch toward leaving the nest. While achievement is one marker of...
Mindful Mind
Teacher and founder of Treeming.org Jörg Sprave leads a guided meditation to introduce listeners to the ancient practice of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing).
The Conversation: Health Health
Don’t panic! Having head lice can be frustrating, but it’s not dangerous and there are effective treatments.
