Month: December 2021

From labeling your feelings to exercise snacks, here’s a roundup of some of Well’s best advice for better living. View original article Contributor: Tara Parker-Pope

The move clears the way for millions of teenagers to receive an additional shot, with a top regulator citing evidence that the effectiveness of two doses is waning in the age group. View original article Contributor: Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers. View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. View original article Contributor: Toby Bilanow

It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don’t allow. It is linked to a long line of lives cut short. View original article Contributor: Megan Twohey and Gabriel J.X. Dance

Media and pop culture often portray prescription opioid addiction in the U.S. as a scourge of white communities. But recent data suggest a changing reality. While white Americans were more likely than Black Americans to die from overdoses in 2019, the rate of opioid overdose deaths rose 38% among Black Americans from 2018 to 2019, … Read more