Sierra Leone is one of a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have not banned cutting. Now, young women are defying mothers and grandmothers by refusing to undergo the procedure. View original article Contributor: Stephanie Nolen
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as hospitals facilitated goodbyes over iPads and funeral homes buried dead without services, families were left with a uniquely isolating grief, devoid of the rituals that traditionally surround death. For Black Americans, who were 1.9 times more likely than white Americans to die of COVID-19 at the start … Read more
How much protection do you currently have against COVID-19? The answer depends on so much: whether you’ve already had COVID-19 (and if so, how long ago); whether you’ve been vaccinated (and if so, how many times, and how recently); whether you have any medical conditions that could weaken your immune system; and so on. Even … Read more
Last year, Diana Berrent—the founder of Survivor Corps, a Long COVID support group—asked the group’s members if they’d ever had thoughts of suicide since developing Long COVID. About 18% of people who responded said they had, a number much higher than the 4% of the general U.S. adult population that has experienced recent suicidal thoughts. … Read more
For the third weekend in a row, large swaths of the United States have wilted under early-season heatwaves that have set high temperature records from California to Texas. Nearly 100 million Americans are facing heat warnings and advisories from the southwest to the Mississippi River, with temperatures spiking well into the triple digits in California, … Read more
On a recent spring evening, Jessica Nouhavandi found herself at the National Abortion Federation conference, surrounded by abortion providers talking excitedly about one key question: how to expand access to medication abortion in more states. Nouhavandi’s company, Honeybee Health, is a crucial part of that goal. Barely four years old, the online, California-based mail-order pharmacy … Read more
Advice on choosing the best wig to help cope with hair loss during cancer treatments. View original article Contributor: Perry Santanachote
Becoming a patient is the first of three categories of identity change, along with the arrest of the person’s current stage of life and reversals in roles of loved ones, a psychiatrist says. View original article Contributor: Emily Veach
Flu in the summer and RSV year-round: More than two years into the pandemic, familiar viruses are acting in unfamiliar ways. View original article Contributor: Frances Stead Sellers
Advice on choosing the best wig to help cope with hair loss during cancer treatments. View original article Contributor: Perry Santanachote