Health
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Rate of Black Children Who Have Received Flu Shots Is Down 10 Percent From Last Year
While the number of people who have received flu shots this year has seen an overall increase, new data has shown that when it comes to Black children that number has actually gone down. According to NBC News, a report released on Wednesday has officials at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention somewhat alarmed.…
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NYC Pilot Program Will Have Medical Professionals Respond to Mental Health Calls Instead of NYPD
In recent years, we’ve seen countless tragedies result from the response by police officers to people suffering a mental health crisis. New York City is set to launch a pilot program next year that will see healthcare professionals responding to these cases instead of the New York Police Department. NBC New York reports that the…
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Days After Brother’s Death, DaBaby Urges People to Seek Therapy for Mental Health Issues: ‘I’m Bouta Get a Therapist My Damn Self’
Content warning: This article discusses and refers to a potential suicide. DaBaby is encouraging people to seek therapy after losing his brother earlier this week. The 28-year-old rapper, born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, reflected on his sibling’s death on his Twitter account Thursday. TMZ reported earlier this week that Glenn Johnson, DaBaby’s older brother, died by suicide.…
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T.I. Just Gave Some Wildly Stupid Advice About How to Beat COVID
Now more than ever, some dudes need to be reminded that shutting the hell up is not only free but a wonderful exercise—particularly if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Such is the case with rapper and professional dubious advice-giver Clifford Harris Jr., also known as T.I. In an interview clip shared by…
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Chadwick Boseman’s Brother Kevin Celebrates 2 Years of Cancer Remission: ‘I Hope You’re Smiling and Shouting With Me’
In a year defined by grief, dancer Kevin Boseman, one of late actor Chadwick Boseman’s older brothers, took a moment to celebrate an important milestone: two years without cancer. In an Instagram story first published on Oct. 14, and later shared by The Shade Room, Kevin noted that the day marked his two-year remission anniversary.…
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Struggling to Stay Fit During the Pandemic? Celebrity Trainer Percell Dugger Offers Suggestions On How to Preserve Your Sexy
This global pandemic has been a trying time for each of us, and many of us are finding significant difficulty in our attempts to free ourselves from the rampant stress, anxiety and depression that are more prevalent than ever before. Exercise can work wonders in alleviating these afflictions, but as many of us have learned,…
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Pro-Life President’s Coronavirus Treatment Was Tested Using Cells Originally Cultivated From Aborted Tissue
The antibody cocktail used to treat President Donald Trump’s case of coronavirus uses cells originally derived from aborted fetuses. The MIT Technology Review found that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company responsible for crafting the antibody cocktail used by Trump, tested it using cells originally cultivated from aborted tissue. *clears throat* OOOOOOOOOO, THEY IN TROUBLEEEEEE. Just kidding,…
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Medical Algorithms Have a Race Problem
Editor’s Note: This story was produced by Consumer Reports, an independent, nonprofit member organization that works to create a fair and just marketplace. Sign up for CR’s free newsletters. When Vanessa Grubbs first met Eli about a decade ago, he was a muscular man in his 50s. Grubbs, a doctor at Zuckerberg San Francisco General…
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Anxiety Is for Girls, Gays, Wimps, and White People
The second biggest lie that I allow people who’ve read my book, and who’ve heard me speak about my book, to believe is that I’m brave. “How did you find the courage,” they ask, during Q&As at independent bookstores, and through emails and (now) Zoom talks, “to be so forthcoming and vulnerable about your neuroses…