Coronavirus Files: FDA vaccine committee OKs move to all-bivalent vaccines
Community health groups are deputizing teenagers to get the word out about COVID vaccines and testing, reports Heidi de Marco at Kaiser Health News.
How Long-Term Studies Are Shaping Our Understanding of Autism
In the 80 years since autism was first described by scientists, our understanding of autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has advanced in leaps and bounds.
How Racialized Beauty Norms Motivate the Use of Toxic Beauty Products Among Women of Color
A new study sheds light on racialized beauty norms that motivate the use of chemical hair straighteners and skin lighteners linked to poor health outcomes. Among survey respondents, beauty was the leading reason for using both chemical straighteners and skin lighteners.
Cries for help pour into 988 mental health, suicide line
When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or “suicidio”
China economy recovering but hampered by virus outbreaks
Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has lifted anti-COVID-19 restrictions. But his gym in the eastern city of Shenyang has been closed for a month because all its coaches are infected.
