DON'T EVER GIVE UP
What Makes Emotional Healing So Hard? By: Mark Myhre When I was 5 years old our family moved to Starkville, Mississippi. My dad had secured a position as a research scientist at Miss. State Univ. that was simply too good to pass up. Starkville was a small town like many other small towns across […]
Music Inside Us By: All The Lyrics Everyone of us has music inside. And it is not an abstract statement, but scientifically proven fact. Molecules of DNA “sound” inside us and it is very important if music from outside is in keeping with music inside us. Scientists pay great attention to researches concerning […]
Dog Day Saturday 2022-10-22 Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may […]
2022-10-21 Centene Gave Thousands to Georgia Leaders’ Campaigns While Facing Medicaid Overbilling Questions Maya T. Prabhu, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Andy Mille A health insurance giant that has paid out more than $485 million in legal settlements with states over pharmacy billing allegations has also been a major donor to Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian […]
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Children All children may experience very stressful events that affect how they think and feel. Most of the time, children recover quickly and well. However, sometimes children who experience severe stress, such as from an injury, from the death or threatened death of a close family member or […]
Mental Health Friday 2022-10-21 On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what […]
2022-10-20 Don’t Drill Your Own Teeth! And Quashing Other Rotten Dental Advice on TikTok Chaseedaw Giles Watch enough TikTok videos and you’re sure to see one extolling a special kind of do-it-yourself dentistry. Not about brushing and flossing, except maybe flossing with strands of your hair. These are videos on drilling into your […]
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children Many children occasionally have thoughts that bother them, and they might feel like they have to do something about those thoughts, even if their actions don’t actually make sense. For example, they might worry about having bad luck if they don’t wear a favorite piece of clothing. For […]
2022-10-20 From Black Death to COVID-19, pandemics have always pushed people to honor death and celebrate life Death waits for no man – and pandemics drive the point home. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: ‘The Triumph of Death’, CC BY Nükhet Varlik, Rutgers University – Newark After the last couple of Halloweens were plagued by doubt and […]
2022-10-19 After Congress Fails to Add Dental Coverage, Medicare Weighs Limited Benefit Expansion Susan Jaffe Proposed changes in Medicare rules could soon pave the way for a significant expansion in Medicare-covered dental services, while falling short of the comprehensive benefits that many Democratic lawmakers have advocated. That’s because, under current law, Medicare can […]