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Health Beyond the Blog: MadHappy

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Jordyn Rosenberg highlights MadHappy, a fashion and lifestyle brand that is working to de-stigmatize mental health

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Weekly Health Digest: Youth Mental Health, Autism Prevalence, Insulin as Preventative Care, and Birth Control and Breast Cancer

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: deteriorating youth mental health, autism prevalence continues to rise, insulin as preventative care, and progestin birth control linked to breast cancer

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Health Beyond the Blog: Our Relationship to Animals

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Annika Urban highlights Dr. Bethany Brookshire’s new book PESTS and her exploration of humanity's relationship to animals

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The Promise of Multi-Cancer Screening

March 22, 2023
Emily Kim
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Emily Kim reports on provocative multi-country research into the Holy Grail of cancer screening: a single test that can perform early detection of many types of cancer.

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Dr. Boadie Dunlop & Dr. George Grant: Part 1 – Transcendent Experience and the Psychedelic Renaissance

March 21, 2023
Charles Raison
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Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a lively discussion with Dr. Boadie Dunlop and Dr. George Grant, co-founders of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. We hear how the center reflects a fully collaborative effort between perspectives often seen as separate or even conflictual: biomedical psychiatry and spiritual health.

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Weekly Health Digest: How the Heart Affects Time, Health Barriers for Black Veterans, and Maternal Deaths in COVID

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: how our heart rate affects time, health barriers for black veterans, and COVID and maternal mortality

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Health Beyond the Blog: The Real Cost of Football

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Rebecca Sugerman emphasizes the growing research highlighting the adverse health effects of American Football

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RED-S: The Little-Known Condition Harming Athletes

March 15, 2023
Annika Urban
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In a new longform story, student and athlete Annika Urban explores how pressure to be lean and to achieve peak performance creates the little-known condition RED-S and undermines athletes' health.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Cells at Work!

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Emily Kim discusses Cells at Work! - a Japanese anime which follows the lives of anthropomorphized human cells

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Weekly Health Digest: COVID Origins, Insulin Price Cap, and Abortion Pills

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: the origins of COVID, insulin price capping, and further restriction on abortion pills

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