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COVID-19 Hotspots are not random: Early study highlights Social Determinants of Infection

Photo by Jérémy Stenuit on Unsplash (rights-free) Americans suffer different rates of illness and disease due to healthcare disparities, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made this worse. By: Jocelyn Spizman Healthcare disparities are the varying burdens of disease and…

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Weekly Health Digest: Pandemic & Exercise, Halloween Safety, Mask Mandates, Psychedelics & Mental Health, & Water Safety

October 12, 2020
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Photo by Kari Shea on Unsplash (rights-free) A summary of important health news from the past week How the Pandemic Is Changing Our Exercise Habits By Gretchen Reynolds As expected, a recent study has found that the quarantine has led…

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Black Women Get Eating Disorders, Too

October 6, 2020
Adaora Ntukogu
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Photo by Jessica Felicio on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Adaora Yvonne Ntukogu Eating Disorders Eating disorders are fatal illnesses associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related emotions. There are 2 main types of eating disorders, the restriction subtype…

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Weekly Health Digest: Obesity & COVID-19, Cannabis & Colon Cancer, Nobel Prize, and COVID-19 in Low Income Areas

A summary of important health news from the past week Studies Begin to Untangle Obesity’s Role in Covid-19 By Katherine J. Wu With no official treatment or cure for Covid-19, researchers are studying what factors can determine how some patients…

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Health Beyond the Blog: Interview with Debora MacKenzie

For last week's Health Beyond the Blog, we recommended Debora MacKenzie's book, COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One. This week we recommend watching the interview Human Health Fellow and science journalist…

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Neuroplasticity & Drug Addiction: The Science Behind the Opioid Epidemic

October 1, 2020
Sarah Du
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Drug overdose, especially regarding the opioid epidemic, has plagued the lives of over 750,000 people in the past two decades. In 2019 alone, the CDC reported over 72,000 deaths by drug overdose, two-thirds of which involved opioids. Amidst the current Covid-19 pandemic,…

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Overturning the Affordable Care Act during a Pandemic

September 30, 2020
Gordon Chan
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By: Gordon Chan The case to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), now called Texas v. California, is scheduled to be considered by the Supreme Court on November 10, just 7 days following the presidential election. The ongoing litigation challenges…

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The French Health Paradox

September 29, 2020
Jocelyn Spizman
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By: Jocelyn Spizman The French Paradox is a phrase used to reflect the opposing epidemiological reality in which the French have lower incidences of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), non-communicable diseases (NCD), and mortality due to NCD while generally eating a…

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Weekly Health Digest: Insurance Antitrust Lawsuit, Robo-Pets, 3D-Printed Nasal Swabs, Green New Deal, Hidden Impacts of Covid-19

September 28, 2020
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Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash (rights-free) A summary of important health news from the past week Blue Cross Insurers Reach Tentative Settlement in Antitrust Lawsuit Blue Cross health insurance group has signed on a payout of $2.7 billion dollars in order to…

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No Kidding | Dr. Malia Jones: Schooling During a Pandemic

September 26, 2020
Eleanor Barrett
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Dr. Malia Jones is a social epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and the UW-Madison Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. Dr. Jones and Eleanor sit down to discuss what going back to school in the middle of a pandemic will be like and how to navigate those situations.

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