Has anyone else noticed how a lot of headlines that defy logic have popped up lately? It doesn’t matter how much time you spend with your kids is one that actually made me click when I first saw it in the Washington Post, and then repeatedly tweeted and subsequently written about by numerous journalists. Continue reading On click-bait academic studies… Yes, it’s a thing.
Category Archives: Health
A parent’s love, a parent’s great fear thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter & disability
I will never forget the day unrelenting fear entered my life. It’s been almost nine years. I can still taste its metallic taste in my mouth. I can still hear the sounds that brought it on. I can still see the horror that unfolded that day and subsequent days. Continue reading A parent’s love, a parent’s great fear thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter & disability
The Rise of Celiac Disease Still Stumps Scientists | TIME
by Mandy Oaklander @mandyoaklander
This is your gut on gluten
Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine rocked the world of celiac research, both proving that scientists have a ways to go in their understanding of celiac disease, which affects about 1% of the population, whether they know it or not. Continue reading The Rise of Celiac Disease Still Stumps Scientists | TIME
California Parents Complain: SexEd Textbook ‘Equivalent To Pornography’ | ThinkProgress
BY TARA CULP-RESSLER POSTED ON
A California school district has agreed to temporarily shelve a ninth grade sex education textbook after parents complained it included material that’s inappropriate for teenagers, including information about masturbation, orgasms, and erotic touch. The parents asking for the removal of Your Health Today have compared the book to porn.
Cookbook Shows How To Eat Well On A #FoodStamp Budget | NPR
By Molly Roberts
When Leanne Brown moved to New York from Canada to earn a master’s in food studies at New York University, she couldn’t help noticing that Americans on a tight budget were eating a lot of processed foods heavy in carbs.
“It really bothered me,” she says. “The 47 million people on food stamps — and that’s a big chunk of the population — don’t have the same choices everyone else does.” Continue reading Cookbook Shows How To Eat Well On A #FoodStamp Budget | NPR
CommonHealth: How Playing Music Affects The Developing Brain | WBUR
Remember “Mozart Makes You Smarter”?
A 1993 study of college students showed them performing better on spatial reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata. That led to claims that listening to Mozart temporarily increases IQs — and to a raft of products purporting to provide all sorts of benefits to the brain.
Continue reading CommonHealth: How Playing Music Affects The Developing Brain | WBUR
Probing Brain’s Depth, Trying to Aid Memory | NYTimes
By Benedict Carey
PHILADELPHIA — The man in the hospital bed was playing video games on a laptop, absorbed and relaxed despite the bustle of scientists on all sides and the electrodes threaded through his skull and deep into his brain.
The man, Ralph, a health care worker who asked that his last name be omitted for privacy, has severe epilepsy; and the operation to find the source of his seizures had provided researchers an exquisite opportunity to study the biology of memory. Continue reading Probing Brain’s Depth, Trying to Aid Memory | NYTimes
Charlotte Greenfield: Should We ‘Fix’ Intersex Children? | The Atlantic
Standard medical practice is often to operate to “normalize” genitals, but some families are fighting back.
When Mark and Pam Crawford took their family to Great Wolf Lodge, a water adventure park, for a week’s vacation, their seven-year-old made a request.
“Since we don’t know anybody,” S asked her parents, “can I be a boy?”
Continue reading Charlotte Greenfield: Should We ‘Fix’ Intersex Children? | The Atlantic
How VNS Therapy for Epilepsy Works| Cyberonics
There are Epilepsy patients for whom medications are not an option. For those patients, alternatives to pharmaceuticals include the Ketogenic Diet. A subset of those for whom the Ketogenic diet offers at least some measurable relief, the addition of a VNS implant can mean effective control of epileptic seizures.
How #VNS Therapy works
VNS is short for vagus nerve stimulation — that is, stimulation of the nerve responsible for relaying messages between the brain and certain parts of the body. Continue reading How VNS Therapy for Epilepsy Works| Cyberonics
Seclusion and Physical Restraint Legal in most US Public Schools
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, June 19, 2014, 5 a.m.
Sometimes, Carson later told his mother, workers would run the fan to make him stop yelling. A thick metal door with lockswhich they threw, clank-clank-clank separated the autistic boy from the rest of the decrepit building in Chesapeake, Virginia, just south of Norfolk.
But such limits don’t apply to public schools.
Definitions and Terms
- Restraints are any holds in which a student’s ability to move their head, torso, arms or legs are limited.
- “Mechanical” restraints use something like straps, handcuffs or bungee cords to do the restraining.
- “Seclusion” refers to situations in which a student is confined against their will in a room they are prevented from leaving — often with a locked door. This is different from a “time out” in which a student is separated from others to allow him or her a chance to calm down. Link
Continue reading Seclusion and Physical Restraint Legal in most US Public Schools