health
The Cautious Gene: Genetic Testing Inherits a Legacy of Distrust
The complexity of working with and understanding DNA is steeped in institutional racism and the historical mistreatment of people of color by the medical community.
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Our Healthcare System Is Completely Unprepared for Long COVID
How will our healthcare system accommodate an influx of post-viral symptoms weeks, months, and even years after the pandemic is under control?
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Out of Network: What’s Really Behind “Health-Sharing” Ministries?
The pandemic has underscored how one person’s “faith” can be weaponized against others to worsen an already shared precarity.
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Colleges Are Fumbling Their Response to Coronavirus—Again
It didn’t have to be this way, but this is what happens when colleges are more concerned with sports, the money they get from dormitories, or the ability to charge facility fees than they are with the health of their students and their professors.
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World on Fire: Environmental Racism and COVID-19 Are a Deadly Combination
Ultimately, the only cure for environmental racism is to entirely dismantle the structures that allow it to fester.
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Collective Softening: Jenara Nerenberg Seeks to Empower Neurodivergent Women
A flawed medical system leaves women with neurological differences, such as ADHD and autism, overlooked and misunderstood.
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Continental Grift: Wellness and the Western Consumption of India
A cultural obsession with Indian-centered wellness also comes from a place that acknowledges that everyone, sick or not, is in some way fundamentally broken.
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Doulas Gone Digital: How to Self-Advocate If You’re Forced to Labor without Support
A lack of support can feel scary for new parents and is especially unsettling for those who are marginalized.
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Autistic and Disabled Folks Know about the Dangers of Bleach “Cures” Firsthand
It’s time for the public to listen to what autistic and disabled advocates have been saying for years.
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Come as You Are: Orgasms Prioritize Pleasure in the Midst of Pain
Orgasms can be restorative for pelvic-pain patients because orgasming helps them experience a “healing trust” that reconnects them with their need for sexual pleasure and intimacy.
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