A growing body of research suggests that mindfulness has applications well beyond mental health, and that people who meditate are more likely to fulfill their health goals.
In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiency in pregnant people […]
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under a microscope, a mosquito can look stunning. Their blue-green iridescent scales, purple bands, and attractive spotted wings shimmer—dazzling enough to forget, for a moment, the insect lives to take a sip of your blood. Mosquitoes range in size, […]
From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]
Sixteen states have bucked new Trump restrictions and allow all residents to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but major pharmacy chains’ websites still say otherwise.