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Hearing the news that your child has a disability can be difficult for any parent to hear. Parents who have a child that gets a diagnosis such as this often turn to friends and family for comfort and advice. Another …
By: Luis Gay Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Cake is usually present during the most joyous days of our lives such as birthdays, weddings, and parties. This is why Depressed Cake Shops have been so successful in their mission to …
Via European Pharmaceutical Review By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Money can’t buy happiness, but evidently is instrumental in gaining FDA approval for controversial drugs with low efficacy and significant side effects. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved …
The health care industry as it stands today uses massive amounts of resources and generates huge amounts of waste per patient per day. While these practices were put in place to protect patients, care givers, and the general public from …
January Jones as Betty Draper-Francis on AMC’s Mad Men. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Warning: spoilers ahead. The penultimate episode of AMC’s Mad Men provided an all-too-familiar portrayal of the paternalistic nature of medicine via the handling of Betty Draper-Francis’s diagnosis …
Fifty social work leaders and scholars gathered last year in Chicago to discuss ways to maximize social work’s effectiveness in health care delivery in the wake of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). The …
By: Kristine AlarconOn April 21st, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)’s Dream Resource Center (DRC) released a study called “Pol(ICE) in My Head.” The study focused on the mental health of undocumented and uninsured youths revealing that there …
Image via By Ken Ochs The recent measles outbreak has led to policy discussions among 2016 presidential hopefuls, a systematic mobilization of public health groups to combat the surging number of cases, and the near-inevitability that tougher laws on vaccinations …
By far, one of the largest and most profound obstacles faced by those with mental illness, especially serious and persistent mental illness, is the associated stigma.
Written by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR March 16, 2015, 2:21 p.m. California’s labor department says it will conduct an audit of how Travelers Insurance handled the case of paralyzed worker Joel Ramirez, who was left to fend …
