News Team – Page 25 – Exploring Health

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Health Beyond the Blog: Rachel E. Gross and “Vagina Obscura”

New on Health Beyond the Blog: Vagina Obscura. Prof. Maryn Mckenna interviews Rachel Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, which details how anatomists mapped female reproductive organs and how a new generation is wresting them back.

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Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism

September 23, 2022
Emily Kim
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The 2022 South Korean TV show “Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo” follows a young lawyer with autism spectrum disorder and shows how she thrives amidst stigma.

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Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically

The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.

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Health and the Winter Olympics

May 24, 2022
News Team
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The 2022 Winter Olympics showed us that shared health events–pandemics and their aftermath–affect the health of elite athletes in unpredictable ways.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Why It Costs $15,000 to Freeze Your Eggs

A new documentary explores the ethical and financial implications of oocyte preservation – egg freezing.

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Mindfulness in Schools: Improving Children’s Mental Health and Learning

May 12, 2022
Annika Urban
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Mindfulness education can reduce stress and aid learning in middle and high schools, and may also help lessen the psychological impact of Covid – but it can be costly to implement.

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Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates

Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.

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Down Syndrome: The Effects of an Extra 21st Chromosome

May 3, 2022
Lexi Rosmarin
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The chromosomal defect known as Down syndrome may have made people who carry it more vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid-19.

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Weekly Health Digest: Abortion Access, CDC Institutional Review, The Loss of a Legend, High C-Section Rates in the South

A summary of health news from this past week. Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash (rights-free) As states move to restrict abortion access, neighboring states prepare for surges in demand By: Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Many Republican-led states have recently passed…

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Health Beyond the Blog: Author Q&A Series Features Dr. Emily Willingham

The Health Storytelling series of livestreamed Q&As with authors of provocative new books returns with Dr. Emily Willingham and her new book, The Tailored Brain.

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