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health writer subscribe to reality tunnels:
https://zoeelisabeth.substack.com/
absolutely fascinating
aeon.co/essays/why-d...
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Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act âheroâs journeyâ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3582203325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-73272155
9 months ago
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I've thought a lot about whether new products/technologies for women's health are actually addressing health inequities or if they're just the latest way of exploiting women, and this article does a great job of laying out that issue
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âFemtechâ takes on the womenâs health-care marketplace
A fast-growing industry offers high-tech solutions for feminine health problems. Its many female founders say theyâre tackling the age-old equity gap in health care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/01/femtech-health-apps-menstrual-menopause/
9 months ago
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really fascinating dive into the nature of human emotion
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Artificial Emotions
How long until a robot cries?
https://nautil.us/artificial-emotions-234334/
9 months ago
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great to see options like this finally becoming accessible
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...
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F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/well/pap-smear-at-home-alternative-cervical.html
10 months ago
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great piece on how hospitals are financially discouraged from performing procedures on female patientsâand horrifying how deeply medical sexism is baked into the system
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
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Reimbursement inequities lead to hospitals deprioritizing womenâs healthcare, experts tell Congress
Even if theyâre essentially the same procedure.
https://www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025/05/02/reimbursement-inequities-hospitals-deprioritizing-womens-healthcare-congress?mbcid=39698256.121400&mblid=0efdaa80dff2&mid=aed8d100b3c585cc1814c435d44d629d&utm_campaign=hcb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew
10 months ago
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really good explanation of the dangerous ways cuts to US research are reshaping science
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
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Trump vs. Science
We explain the administrationâs cuts to research.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/briefing/trump-vs-science.html
10 months ago
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really interesting exploration of our memories and their often underappreciated value
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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What Do You Remember?
The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-do-you-remember
11 months ago
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really striking illustration of how horrible it is to navigate the US healthcare system with Long Covid
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/long-covid-clinics-closing/682251/
11 months ago
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absolutely fascinating
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Can emotion-regulating tech translate across cultures? | Aeon Essays
Artificial intelligence promises ever more control over the highs and lows of our emotions. Uneasy? Perhaps you should be
https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures
11 months ago
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fascinating piece on the biases built into medical systems that apply the same standards to every patient
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient
From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/medical-benchmarks-and-the-myth-of-the-universal-patient
11 months ago
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Philip Bump
12 months ago
congrats to Disease, having a huge year
add a skeleton here at some point
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Catherine Rampell
12 months ago
As I've said, Trump officials suggest it's no big deal to reduce access to health care since it's mostly other things that are making Americans sick, like toxic chemicals. But they're allowing more toxic chemicals too
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Mad in America
12 months ago
Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions. By Richard Sears
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Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia highlight how social, economic, and cultural struggles shape psychological suffering, raising concerns about Western mental healthâŠ
https://buff.ly/V9sjpPO
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Alex Shephard
12 months ago
I wrote about Gavin Newsom, who sucks
newrepublic.com/article/1924...
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Gavin Newsom Is the Worst
The former #Resistance darling has no problem politically sacrificing the most vulnerable Americans, like trans high schoolers, for the sake of his White House dreams.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192457/gavin-newsom-trans-high-school-athletes-white-house
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Anu Li
about 1 year ago
I hate that wellness got co-opted by the right because there really is a good conversation to have about our food systems and what goes into foods that could be harming us, but instead of passing regulations on food companies like other countries itâs going to be âyou canât buy snacks with SNAPâ
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wrote this new piece on misophonia & social cognition for
@nautil.us
nautil.us/when-other-p...
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When Other People's Chewing Causes You Pain
Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder
https://nautil.us/when-other-peoples-chewing-causes-you-pain-1189542/?_sp=cfbfbb82-33eb-490d-89f7-c62c9c7c0c14.1739296491826
about 1 year ago
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timing the events of an elementary class down to the second is just dystopian... what exactly are we trying to prepare kids for?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Is Micromanaging Teachers a Recipe for School Success?
A new superintendent is trying to improve Houstonâs public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says itâs working. Many educators and parents hate it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/is-micromanaging-classes-a-recipe-for-school-success.html
about 1 year ago
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Julie Lynn
about 1 year ago
Well this aged well from a week ago
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD
about 1 year ago
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what youâve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). Iâll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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STAT
about 1 year ago
The scrubbing could affect the ways researchers and companies test drugs and medical devices
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
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FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/fda-purges-pages-clinical-trial-diversity-after-trump-dei-ban/
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Amazing piece on chronic pain and the complications of treating it, living with it, getting people to even see it as real
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
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Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. Itâs Time for a Revolution.
As many as two billion people suffer from it â including me. Can science finally bring us relief?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/magazine/chronic-pain.html
about 1 year ago
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The New Yorker
about 1 year ago
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrillingâand terrifying.
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How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrillingâand terrifying.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-learned-to-cycle-like-a-dutchman?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Mad in America
about 1 year ago
The Mad in America
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#Psychology
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Best Psychiatry Podcasts [2025] Top Shows - Goodpods
Discover the top Psychiatry podcasts in 2025. Listen, review and see what Psychiatry podcasts your friends are listening to. | Listen on Goodpods
https://buff.ly/4a6YXH6
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Ălex Maroño Porto
about 1 year ago
12. what a powerful essay by raven leilani in
@nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...
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Death of the Party | Raven Leilani
I was embarrassed. To be grieving incorrectly, to be doing it publicly, to be preoccupied with whether I was doing it well. Dissonance was everywhere. The blunted, abject language of bereavement, and ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/death-of-the-party/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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troy farah
about 1 year ago
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Drugmakers to raise US prices on over 250 medicines starting Jan. 1
Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer cell therapies and vaccines from France's Sanofi at the start of 2025, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-over-250-medicines-starting-jan-1-2024-12-31/
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Mad in America
about 1 year ago
From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address. By Liam Gehrig Bach
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/from-community-to-commodity-the-global-takeovâŠ
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From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models
While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address.
https://buff.ly/3P5Ibyo
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