Tag Archives: Crisis

Juul to Pay $438.5 Million for Its Role in Teen Vaping Crisis

By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Juul Labs mentioned Tuesday it would pay $438.5 million, with out acknowledging wrongdoing, to settle dozens of lawsuits filed over firm practices that will have fueled widespread vaping amongst American teenagers. “This settlement with 34 states and territories is a big a […]

Is the Falling Age of Puberty Adding to the Teen Mental Health Crisis?

Family therapist David Kalergis remembers one 8-year-old lady particularly. She plopped down on the comfortable chair in his Mount Pleasant, SC, workplace, uncertain of what to say. Her mother and father had already instructed Kalergis that in current months the lady smelled in another way, pungent. By lunchtime she already wanted a shower. Her mother […]

Is the Opioid Crisis Masking Real Rates of Suicides?

April 21, 2022 – Pandemic situations have been ripe for a psychological well being catastrophe: Isolation, a crashing financial system, and a thriller sickness taking intention with lethal accuracy. But whereas cases of despair and anxiousness elevated, there appeared to be one comforting prospect: In the previous 2 years, suicide numbers have dropped. “We all […]

Sci-Fi Tech Could Solve World’s Water Crisis

Imagine a small field that may harvest ingesting water from the air, even within the Mojave Desert. It’s simply one of many new mind-bending applied sciences aimed toward fixing the worldwide water disaster, the size of which calls for science fiction-level innovation. More than 2 billion folks all over the world lack entry to secure […]

With COVID & Ukraine, Crisis Fatigue Thrives

March 15, 2022 — In informal dialog nowadays, you are more likely to hear: “I’m simply accomplished with COVID.” The downside is the virus is not accomplished with us but. Nor is the struggle in Ukraine, inflation, or fuel costs, amongst different issues. The statistics 2 years into the pandemic are sobering, or ought to […]

America’s College Mental Health Crisis

By MARISA COHEN Randi*, a 20-year-old basketball participant from Nashville, had struggled with despair for a couple of years earlier than she left for school in 2019, however the abrupt swap to distant lessons on the onset of the COVID pandemic in March 2020 – after which the return to a very completely different school […]

WHO Responds to Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine

March 3, 2022 — The World Health Organization has referred to as on top-level officers concerned within the Russian invasion of Ukraine to make sure entry for supply of important medical, surgical, and trauma provides to assist the Ukrainian individuals and refugees in neighboring nations. A scarcity of oxygen, insulin, most cancers therapies, and different […]

Red Cross Declares National Blood Crisis

Jan. 11, 2022 The Red Cross has declared a nationwide blood disaster and is encouraging the general public to donate, saying traditionally low blood provides are inflicting some hospitals to vary remedies and cancel surgical procedures. “In recent weeks, blood centers across the country have reported less than a one-day’s supply of blood of certain […]

Dr. Amishi Jha on the Crisis of Attention and Cultivating Mindfulness

Child: Welcome to my Mommy’s podcast.   This episode is delivered to you by Paleovalley, a household run firm whose merchandise I’ve beloved for years. My household loves lots of their merchandise and their beef sticks and Essential C are every day staples at our home, however at this time, I needed to particularly point […]

New HIV and AIDS Strategy Calls Racism a Public Health Crisis

YouTube: “President Biden Delivers Remarks on World AIDS Day,” The White House. HIV.gov: “National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States 2022-2025,” “What Is Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States?” Gregorio Millett, vp, American Foundation for AIDS Research. amfAR: “Ending the HIV Epidemic Database.” The Lancet, Public Health: “Homelessness, unstable housing, and risk of […]