One factor might be a high sense of community and high levels of religious service attendance within the Black community, which have consistently been associated with both lower and less severe alcohol use. Another possible reason for lower rates of alcohol use among Black Americans is the well-founded sense that the possible downsides are more…
I grew up constantly uncertain, thanks to an unstable home life as a child, parents who moved around a lot and, starting at 16, being without a home of my own. The trauma from those experiences began to prey on me, it wore me down and mingled with my diagnoses of A.D.H.D., depression and obsessive-compulsive…
An early-morning word game catapults me into flow. A late-night Netflix binge sometimes does the trick too — it transports you into a story where you feel attached to the characters and concerned for their welfare. While finding new challenges, enjoyable experiences and meaningful work are all possible remedies to languishing, it’s hard to find…
Some children will be taller, some will be more developed, some boys will have changing voices while others won’t. “This is all a normal part of going through adolescence, but it might seem a little more sudden,” Dr. Josefson said. Updated April 19, 2021, 10:35 a.m. ET Families should talk with children about how these…
My camera lens is pressed against the window of the small floatplane as it flies below a thick ceiling of clouds. The mist clings to the hillsides of a temperate rainforest that descend steeply to the rocky coastline of southeast Alaska. The plane banks, and a tiny village comes into view. A scattering of houses…
Doll, for example, may be the first private detective in Los Angeles who’s in Freudian analysis five days a week. He is certainly the first one to describe his relationship with his beloved dog as “disturbed,” saying, “We’re like two old-fashioned closeted bachelors who cohabitate and don’t think the rest of the world knows we’re…
The stool has become an integral part of many kitchens — whether it’s pulled up at an island, a peninsula or a high cafe table. “So many people have that open floor plan, with the kitchen island and a great room,” and the previously separate functions of cooking, living, entertaining and working blur together, said…
More blood thinners aren’t automatically better, another study confirms. A new publication in JAMA Internal Medicine focuses on the minimal pros and the concerning cons of combining a daily aspirin with a drug from the newer class of anticoagulants that include apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban and rivaroxaban. Patients were taking one of these direct oral anticoagulants…
Boston – Transgender people have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease and hypertension than cisgender people. However, while doctors have prescribed gender-affirming hormone therapy to transgender men and women for more than 25 years, little is known about how this treatment may impact rates of hypertension in this patient population or how the effects of…
PHILADELPHIA – A new gene therapy for one of the most common forms of congenital blindness was safe and improved patients’ vision, according to initial data from a clinical trial led by researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The therapy delivers working copies of…