This week, a Christian school fires a teacher for pre-marital sex (10 points if you can guess the teacher’s gender), the FDA cracks down on over-the-counter DNA tests, Detroit’s HIV rates spike and Rand Paul’s eye-doctor credentials turn out to be, err, self-bestowed–read all about it in your weekly health-news round-up from Lindsay Beyerstein at […]
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“The Weekly Pulse,” June 3-9: Health News You Should Know
Each week, the Media Consortium rounds up progressive health stories from independent media into “The Weekly Pulse”. Today: charting cervical mucus, the perils of abstinence-only curriculum, teens having less sex, anti-choice legislation and lesbian couples raising healthy kids. Rhythm method madness: Seventeen percent of sexually active teenage girls said they used the rhythm method as […]
COVID-19 Vaccine: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
Rather than coordinating a coherent, scientifically-based national strategy to combat the global, COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump is hedging his bets solely on the quick release and acceptance of a vaccine. There are lots of questions surrounding the potential of a COVID-19 vaccine, and some warranted concern for what to expect when options come along: How far are we from a vaccine? Will the vaccine be safe and effective? Will I be able to get the vaccine once it’s approved?
Let’s tackle some of the most common ones.
Waiting for Herd Immunity Won’t Save Us
A top White House advisor is reportedly pushing for Trump to adopt a strategy of “herd immunity” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But what exactly does that mean?
Eating Disorders Are Not “About Control”
Of course, eating disorders involve control, but the force that’s in control is the disorder, not the individual. It’s like saying diabetes, or cancer, or tuberculosis is all about control! The illness controls your life, not the other way around. But that’s never what the uninitiated mean when they say EDs are “all about control.”