Weekly Health Digest: BMI no longer useful, anti-vaccine legislation rising, abortion bans interrupt healthcare
New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: BMI no longer useful, anti-vaccine legislation rising, abortion bans interrupt healthcare
Health Beyond the Blog: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Emily Kim endorses Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" as it explores society’s inability to address mental health issues.
Weekly Health Digest: Nursing Homes, ALS, and “Healthy” Food
New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: tracking nursing home business' data, a new ALS drug enters the marketplace, and the FDA is changing what is “healthy.”
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.
Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism
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.
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.
Health and the Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics showed us that shared health events–pandemics and their aftermath–affect the health of elite athletes in unpredictable ways.
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.
Mindfulness in Schools: Improving Children’s Mental Health and Learning
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.
Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates
Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.