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Weekly Health Digest: Food Recalls, Semaglutide, Gender Health Gap, Eye Implants, Stroke Guidelines, Abortion Access

October 29, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: food recalls increase, preventing compounded semaglutide, eliminating the gender health gap, eye implants for the blind, social determinants of health in stroke guidelines, new attempts to restrict abortion.

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Roman Palitsky: The Risks of Meditation and Psychedelics

In this episode, Dr. Roman Palitsky, a clinical psychologist and Director of Research Projects at Emory Spiritual Health, discusses the connections between spirituality, meditation, and mental health. He highlights the lesser-known risks of meditation and psychedelics, practices often celebrated for their benefits but not thoroughly examined for their challenges.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Rachel E Gross’s “Vagina Obscura”

News Team member Ananya Dash recommends "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" by Rachel E. Gross, an exploration of science, culture, history and inequities in women's health research.

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Weekly Health Digest: Weight-Loss Drugs, Health Insurance, Overdose Declines, Food Shortages, Aging Alone

October 21, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Weight-loss drugs in the UK, why health insurance is tied to jobs, declines in drug overdoses, therapeutic food shortages in Africa, facing dementia and cognitive decline alone.

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Health Beyond the Blog: “Hack Your Health” on Netflix

News Team member Stephanie Oehler recommends documentary "Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut" on Netflix to improve popular understanding of gut health, immune support, and the microbiome.

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Weekly Health Digest: Wastewater Surveillance, Post-Helene Insurance, IV Shortages, COVID Heart Disease, and Jellyfish Immunity

October 16, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: RSV in wastewater, insurance after hurricanes, IV fluid shortages, heart disease due to long COVID, comb jellies and immunology.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Lynne Peeples and “Our Inner Clock”

News Team member Alya Khoury recommends the latest episode of Health Storytelling, featuring Lynne Peeples and her new book "The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms."

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Weekly Health Digest: Schizophrenia Treatment, RSV Vaccines, Bird Flu Vaccines, HIV Prevention, Breast Cancer

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: New option for schizophrenia patients, investigating RSV vaccine uptake among minorities, doubling available bird flu vaccines, improving access to HIV prevention in low-income countries, rising breast cancer rates among younger women.

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Health Beyond the Blog: “The Martian” by Andy Weir

News Team member Diyya Ganju recommends the 2014 book "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Its fictional stranded protagonist's prioritizing of mental health and connection offers lessons for real life.

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Weekly Health Digest: Stem Cells, Uterus Transplants, Schizophrenia Treatment, Carcinogens, Migraines, Dementia Drug

September 30, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Stem cells as a new treatment for type 1 diabetes, uterus transplants for infertile women, approval of a new schizophrenia treatment, carcinogens in food packaging, new understandings of estrogen and migraines, and dementia drug derailed by lawsuit.

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