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septembre 12, 2023Like
Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Body Image and Sex
Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. There’s a comedy skit online featuring Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Patricia Arquette joking about how Hollywood determines the age when a woman is no longer, ahem, sexually desirable (although, let’s just say that the word they use in the skit is a little cruder than that). The idea is nothing new, but Healthy
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The HCD 10: Damian Huneycutt, Team MVP
Damian Huneycutt, healthcare client leader, principal, DLR Group (Charlotte, N.C.) When DLR Group signed on to provide architectural design services for the Atrium Health Pineville Phase III bed tower project, the owner presented the firm with a unique requirement: to deliver at least 25 percent of the project via prefabrication. Damian Huneycutt immediately stepped in to lead the effort. That started with working directly with a committee of project team partners to identify the prefabricated design elements that would be healthcare
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9 Menstrual Cups So Comfortable, You’ll Break up With Your Tampons for Good
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. For people with periods, the monthly ritual of realizing you may or may not have enough tampons to get through your cycle is a familiar one — there’s nothing worse than opening up your medicine cabinet on day one of your period and realizing you’ve got one or two tampons to your name. (Who needs to worry about an shek
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Reading Tower Health
Focused on the patient/family experience and integration with the existing hospital campus, the Ballinger-designed Reading HealthPlex turns the site and program challenges into opportunities for connectivity, enhanced green space, and advanced medical care. This new building in Reading, Pa., which represents the next phase of Tower Health’s long-range master plan for the Reading Hospital campus, consolidates campus-wide surgical services, expands emergency medicine, and adds 150 new private patient rooms to the urban institution. A significant portion of the surgical program healthcare
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New Study Finds Children Can Recognize When Others Are Sick
A new study published in the Journal of Child Development looked at infection detection in faces and children’s development of pathogen avoidance. “We were interested in understanding whether children ages four to nine years old can avoid and recognize sick faces,” study author Tiffany S. Leung told us. “Previous studies have reported that adults can use faces to recognize when someone is sick and make judgements about whether to approach or avoid them. However, so far, no studies have measured theravive
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Are You Being Shallow? Here Are 7 Ways to Stop Being Shallow
Where we live in a world filled with Instagram filters and quick swipes on dating apps, it can become almost easy to get caught up in the shallow end of the pool. With showering praises and a never-ending loop of who liked your content, it’s almost impossible to look beyond these superficial things. I’ve lived in a society where my personality was defined by my job, my choice of career, and even the way I dressed up. While I soon calmsage
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Caffeine And Migraines: Can Caffeine Help Tension Headaches or Cause Them?
The relationship between caffeine and migraine is a complex one, with caffeine being an acute pain reliever as well as a potential trigger. Understanding the factors for caffeine-induced migraines can help you make informed choices about caffeine consumption. Migraines are no joke; they are more than just severe headaches too. Migraines are like those uninvited guests who come with a drum set to play an enthusiastic solo right in your head. These severe headaches often come bearing nausea and sensitivity calmsage
septembre 11, 2023Like
Elaine Welteroth Is Speaking Out About Pain Inequity
For some people, visiting a medical professional when you’re not feeling well or are injured, is a routine process that ends in working toward a diagnosis and a solution. Yet for marginalized communities, in particular non-white Latinx and Black patients, getting validation of pain, and fair treatment in a medical office is not a guarantee. Historically, this rings true: Medical professionals over time have ingrained racial bias in treating Black patients, believing them to be more tolerant of pain based shek
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The New COVID Booster Is Now FDA-Approved — What You and Your Family Need To Know
As we head into a new cold, flu, and COVID season, there’s major news on the vaccine front: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new COVID booster shot, which is expected to be available in a few days, pending final approval from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s welcome news, considering that COVID hospitalizations and deaths are back on the rise in the US — just as school is getting back in session and shek
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Overview Myalgic encephalomyelitis, formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome and now often referred to as ME/CFS, was recently redefined and renamed to more accurately reflect the brain inflammation and multisystem symptoms of the disease. With the renaming came new guidelines from the National Academy of Medicine to help primary and specialty care providers more readily diagnose and manage a condition that has traditionally been difficult to diagnose and manage. Symptoms leading to a diagnosis of ME/CFS now include: an impairment Healthy
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The Effects of Social Media on Teens
Social media continues to evolve and grow in popularity, and its powerful influence on teenagers shows no sign of slowing. Though often touted as something mostly positive that offers connectivity and information sharing, social media can pose serious challenges for younger generations. The effects of social media on teens are varied and wide-ranging. Cyberbullying, mental health concerns, social media addiction, and privacy issues are potential adverse effects we should be paying attention to. If you’re like most parents, you’ve probably talk
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Here’s Why Your Allergies Get So Bad In the Fall — & What to Do About Them
The days of pumpkin spice and apple picking are here, but you can’t stop sniffling and sneezing (and googling whether your symptoms match up with the flu or COVID-19.). We might think that fall should offer us a reprieve from the bursting blooms of spring and the sinus crud that often comes in with winter. However, according to Clifford Bassett, MD, founder and medical director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York, fall is actually (and unfortunately) quite a shek