All posts by LadyLively

  • AHA News: Historic Black Church and Its Nonprofit Focus on Faith, Body and Mind

    TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — At the 142-year-old Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, New Jersey, the 1,500-member congregation has learned that tending only to spiritual needs is not enough. So, the predominantly Black...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • Another Study Finds Bogus ‘Conversion Therapy’ Harms LGBTQ Teens

    There are serious mental harms and high financial costs associated with so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, researchers report. Conversion therapy attempts to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people “straight.” Its safety and effectiveness has...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • FDA Says Gene-Edited Cattle Are Safe to Eat

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to the sale of beef from gene-edited cattle. “Today’s decision underscores our commitment to using a risk and science-based, data-driven process that focuses on safety...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • Brain Changes May Fuel ‘Long COVID’ Anxiety, Confusion

    Here’s more evidence of the toll that COVID-19 takes on the human brain: A new study finds biomarkers of neuron damage and brain inflammation in the blood are associated with brain function changes in both hospitalized COVID-19...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • Begin Now to Protect Your Heart as Clocks ‘Spring Forward’

    The lost hour of sleep when clocks spring forward for daylight saving time on Sunday, March 13 can pose risks to your heart — but there are ways to protect yourself. A number of studies have found...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • New Cellular ‘Fountain of Youth’ Shows Benefits in Mice

    Could a reset of your cells bring you the fountain of youth? Maybe so, if a new study testing the technique in mice ever pans out in humans. Cells in older people and animals have different patterns...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • Looking to Neanderthals to Explain Today’s Lower Back Pain

    A comparison of Neanderthal and modern human spines suggests lifestyle habits of 21st century people lie behind widespread back pain, researchers say. Anthropologists focused on the spine’s curvature, which is partly influenced by wedging, or angling, of...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • What’s More Accurate, Blood Pressure Readings at Home or Doctor’s Office?

    Regular blood pressure readings at home are more accurate for diagnosing high blood pressure than those taken at a doctor’s office, according to a new study. “Blood pressure varies a lot over the day … and one...

    • Posted March 8, 2022
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  • EPA Proposes Tougher Emission Standards for Big Trucks

    Tighter restrictions on emissions from big trucks were proposed Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Seventy-two million people are estimated to live near truck freight routes in America, and they are more likely to be...

    • Posted March 7, 2022
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  • Black Americans Now More Likely to Die of Drug Overdoses Than Whites

    For two decades, the death rate from opioid overdoses was higher among white Americans than Black Americans. But that changed in 2020, signaling an end to the notion that the overdose crisis is a “white problem.” Using...

    • Posted March 7, 2022
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