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When Does Playing Contact Sports Put Your Brain at Risk?
- Health & Healing
- October 9, 2025
From The NY Times: “Two studies published on Wednesday raise concerns about the consequences of repeated minor head impacts in athletes. The findings suggest that damage to the brain can occur well before, or independent of, a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E.”
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New study finds household plastics linked to heart disease deaths worldwide
- Health & Healing
- May 1, 2025
“By highlighting the connection between phthalates and a leading cause of death across the world, our findings add to the vast body of evidence that these chemicals present a tremendous danger to human health.” Sara Hyman, lead study author and associate research scientist, NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
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It’s Time to Keep Phones Out of Classrooms
- Home & Family
- April 29, 2025
“Smartphone use has a time and place. It’s not in the classroom. Study after study have shown the harmful effects of too much screen time. Children and teens who spend hours on their phones scrolling through social media are more anxious, depressed, and distracted.”
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Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year, study suggests
- Health & Healing
- April 16, 2025
“CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked. Given the large volume of CT use in the United States, many cancers could occur in the future if current practices don’t change. ” Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a UCSF radiologist and first author of a new study.
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Are smartphones giving you popcorn brain?
- Health & Healing
- March 31, 2025
“It’s because the content on these platforms is so addictive, and every like, comment, and share triggers dopamine release in the brain. This constant stimulation trains the brain to crave instant rewards. Hence, the slower tasks feel dull, leading to popcorn brain.”
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Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 25, 2025
“I think the major takeaway from our study should be that social media use is a poor substitute for person-to-person interaction. Our results suggest that no matter how one uses social media—actively or passively—such use leads to higher levels of loneliness.” That’s what James A. Roberts, professor and researcher, Baylor University, told PsyPost.
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Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
- Home & Family
- March 21, 2025
“These are kids who spent most of their formative years – kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, when you’re supposed to be learning social skills – not learning them. They don’t have those social skills,” Wendy Gonzalez, an elementary school teacher in Richmond, CA. said that as a result of remote learning during the pandemic, many of her students didn’t “know how to talk to each other.”
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The ash left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires might be toxic, experts warn
- Health & Healing
- January 23, 2025
“We know it’s a lot of emotions and feelings going on that you can put down your guard, but you shouldn’t do that. Just be safe. Be careful. Put all the gear you can — at least an N95 mask, gloves — and stay safe. Because you lost your property. But you don’t want to damage also your health in the longer run.” Mohammed Baalousha, professor, environmental health sciences, University of South Carolina.
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What checking your phone first thing in the morning does to your brain
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 14, 2025
“Grabbing your phone and flooding your brain with notifications, social media feeds, or emails overstimulates your prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making and impulse control. This barrage of information can lead to mental fatigue before you’ve even gotten out of bed, making your mind feel cluttered and less focused for the rest of the day.”
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U.S. Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages
- Health & Healing
- January 7, 2025
“Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States. Yet the majority of Americans are unaware of this risk.” Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general.
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Secret Santa gives out thousands of dollars to North Carolina residents devastated by Hurricane Helene
- Home & Family
- December 17, 2024
“I think when people go through tragedy, they can lose their house — all their belongings. But what they can’t lose is hope. And maybe we can give a little hope.”
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4 Amazing Benefits At Thanksgiving When Gratitude Can Change Your Brain
- Health & Healing, Uncategorized
- November 25, 2024
A good reminder from Forbes magazine contributor Bryan Robinson about the multiple benefits of practicing gratitude every day of the year: “Studies on happiness corroborate the Dalai Lama’s assessment. Findings show that if you express gratitude, it raises your happiness by 25%. People who consciously count their blessings are happier and less depressed. When you
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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
- Home & Family
- November 18, 2024
“I can’t underscore just how powerful it is to have a few moments of authentic interaction with somebody where you can hear their voice and see their face. There is tremendous benefit that comes to each of us from being able to show up for each other.” Dr. Murphy has even previously cited loneliness as an epidemic in our society.
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Baby Walkers Have Caused Injuries and Deaths—So Why Are They Banned in Canada But Not in the U.S.?
- Consumer Alerts, Featured, Home & Family
- October 15, 2024
Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) favors a ban on the manufacture and sale of sit-in baby walkers—maintaining they don’t help, but hurt infants learning to walk?
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Toxic chemicals used in food preparation leach into human bodies, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- September 19, 2024
“We’ve got, say, 60 years of research into the migration of chemicals into food from food processing and packaging equipment. It’s been studied very extensively.”
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