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Haunted by Grief
Making sense of the severity of this pandemic as an activist scholar and a member of the Latinx/a/o community has created much conflict for myself and many others.
January 21, 2022
Blogs/Opinion
A Return to Live Teaching Still Premature
January 18, 2022
Blogs/Opinion
Working with a disability
A decade ago, I was completing my master’s degree in environmental science and policy, and preparing to embark on a multi-decade career in advocacy and public policy that would have required not only long hours during the workweek, but frequent travel and overtime. Unfortunately, my body had other plans. Slowly my experiences began to erode […]
January 16, 2019
Blogs/Opinion
Why is student mental health at Georgia Tech and other schools worsening?
Collin Spencer is a third-year biology major at Georgia Tech where he has served as a member of President G.P. “Bud” Peterson’s Campus Culture Action Team and as director of the Mental Health Student Coalition. After Collin and I exchanged emails about the deaths of two Georgia Tech students to suicide, I asked him to […]
January 14, 2019
Blogs/Opinion
Analyze This: Most teen girls don’t meet guidelines for daily exercise
An active lifestyle is important for health. Making it habit, however, can be hard for some teens. Certain groups seem to do better than others at making exercise part of their regular routines. Those needing the most improvement, here: girls! Sarah Armstrong studies human health and behavior at Duke University’s clinical research institute in Durham, […]
January 9, 2019
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Guest Opinion: Arming teachers isn’t viable response to public health crisis
I had the opportunity to read a recent Dec. 14 guest opinion written by Craig T. Edwards and feel compelled to respond. I emphatically believe that legislative solutions involving the safety of our children must be the byproduct of a thoughtful, informed and bipartisan discourse, and I am here to offer an antithetical perspective to the solution […]
January 7, 2019
Blogs/Opinion
Drug policy solutions for the new year
As we look ahead to the new year, our nation continues to grapple with one of the most daunting public health challenges in recent history — the opioid epidemic. Substantial opportunities exist to reduce the number of overdose deaths in this country and at the same time, forge a new path to address substance use […]
January 2, 2019
Blogs/Opinion
OPINION: Pension bills cut benefits, will have minimal impact on system health
The two pension bills introduced last night in the hastily-called special session (House Bill 1 and House Bill 2) include many of the benefit cuts that target future and current teachers and employees included in Senate Bill 151, the sewage bill. The bills do not include an actuarial analysis as required by law. But given […]
December 19, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Opinion: Kaiser mental health workers explain why they’re striking
As mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente, we do our best to help people survive the hardest moments of their lives. For us, the most difficult moments are often when we first see a person suffering from a debilitating depression or the parent of a child with severe anxiety. Finally, they have reason to think […]
December 17, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health Care
Ever-evolving health care technologies are a classic example of a double-edged sword. On one side, they hold the promise of simultaneously improving patient outcomes and physicians’ professional satisfaction. On the other, they threaten to exacerbate some of the disparities and inequalities found throughout our health care system. Consider telemedicine. A driving force behind this technology […]
December 12, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
The truth about Medicare for all
Like a cheap sweater that can be pulled apart by tugging at a thread, Obamacare is in tatters. Soaring costs of premiums coupled with outrageous deductible hikes have made things worse, not better. All this was predictable. Despite being less than a decade old, the law has clearly failed. The cost of health care did […]
December 10, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
OPINION: Strict Attendance Policies, Deadlines Negatively Affect Students’ Health
Have you gotten your flu shot yet? If you haven’t, it’s not too late. Influenza can be a devastating and potentially deadly illness. And being sick, especially with something as nasty as the flu, is not a luxury many students can afford. Read More
December 5, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
COMMUNITY VOICES: Let’s address children’s mental health
When our children are sick, we take them to the doctor; when they have a toothache, we take them to the dentist. Often, we forget to address their mental health. There are symptoms that we overlook and blame it on the child’s temper or behavior. Some common signs are hyperactivity, social isolation and poor academic […]
December 4, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Racial Disparities in Healthcare Treatment
When I heard about the death of Kim Porter, I was shocked. Porter passed away at only 43 years old. She had been a model and actress, best known for her relationship with P. Diddy. With her cause of death still unknown, I have read reports which claim Porter was suffering from pneumonia at the […]
November 28, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
The new cholesterol guidelines: What you Need to Know
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety of additional professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association. Thus, the majority of […]
November 26, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Is the Language of Digital Technology Killing us and our Ability to Communicate?
I have always been a lover of language, in all of its various forms. A voracious reader since the age of three, I became fluent in a second language by the time I reached high school, was pleasantly surprised in college to discover that I spoke a third language called “Black English,” and, since then, […]
November 19, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Opinion: Free or Reduced-Cost Health Insurance for a Limited Time Only
It may be tough to get much closer to universal health coverage in New Jersey, but targeted outreach can pay off It’s open enrollment time again for Obamacare health plans, a good time to take stock of how New Jersey is doing covering the uninsured. In a previous column, I wrote that quick actions by […]
November 14, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Why I Became a Mental-Health First-Aider at my Research Institute
The Francis Crick Institute in London now has around 40 accredited mental-health first aiders. The two-day training course is run by our occupational-health nurse, covering conditions such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and psychosis. I volunteered because there weren’t yet any scientific group leaders among the first aiders. We should have them at all levels […]
November 12, 2018
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