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This study reveals an important association between medical mistrust and appropriately timed breast cancer screening among many minority women
High Level Of Medical Mistrust Among Minority Women Impacts Quality Of Health Care
Karen Gearreald, Agnes Scott’s first blind student, got her Ph.D. at Harvard, a law degree at Duke, and after years as a Navy lawyer, works on projects for the visually impaired, and has the distinction of being the personal hero of Georgia State football coach Bill Curry.
1966 GE College Bowl: Agnes Scott vs. Princeton | MetaFilter
recent developments that seek to close the gap between able-bodied athletes and para-athletes
Will stupid people and their pseudoscience cost more lives this year?
Bad science: Thanks to HIV/Aids denialists like Christine Maggiore more will die
the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not.
Laue’s parents did not coddle him. They bought him sneakers with laces and pants with buttons. They did not get him a prosthetic arm but they did sign him up for Little League, where he swung a bat like it was a polo mallet.
Basketball Prospect Provides Inspiration With What He Doesn’t Have – NYTimes.com
“can be attained through cultural practices, such as intense meditation or prayer, or because of a brain injury.”
Miller-McCune | Article | This Is Your Brain on Spiritual Transcendence
An NHS doctor was imprisoned, drugged, bound and gagged before being forced into marriage in Bangladesh, it emerged today, as a British judge issued an order telling her parents not “to pester, harass or intimidate” her. Dr Humayra Abedin, 32, was held captive for four-and-a-half months by her family and was forced to marry while under the influence of drugs. She was freed by a court in Bangladesh and returned to Britain on Tuesday. In the High Court in London this morning, Mr Justice Coleridge issued injunctions against Dr Abedin’s parents, a paternal uncle and the man she was forced to marry. He declared that it was “vitally important for the message to be understood in those communities where this kind of behaviour is sanctioned” that the courts will act “swiftly and decisively” in cases were there had been such a “gross abuse of an individual’s human rights”.
What community might it be where this kind of behaviour is sanctioned? A college educated woman was tricked by her parents into flying to Bangladesh, being told her mother was ill. She was manhandled into a locked room minus her passport and papers, where she was kept under guard by four or more men. After sending a text message pleading for help, her phone was taken from her. Police offers were summoned to take her away. When she refused, she was bound and hooded then forced into an ambulance. She was taken to a psychiatric hospital and forcibly drugged for two months.
Isolated from the outside world, she was told that she had lost her job in Britain and could not return. Her parents told her they wanted her to wed Dr Khondokar Mohammad Abdul Jalal, whom she had previously declined to marry. On November 14, she was taken to the Khulna area, where, still under the influence of drugs, she “entered into a marriage ceremony against her will and under duress”. [...] Dr Abedin was “told by her parents that if she said she wanted to go to the United Kingdom both her mother and her father would be put in prison and she would be placed in police custody”. [...] Last Sunday the court in Dhaka ruled that she must be freed. [...] Dr Abedin’s solicitor, Anne-Marie Hutchinson, said [...] Dr Abedin would seek to have her marriage annulled in Britain and had no plans to return to Bangladesh.
What community might it be where this kind of behaviour is sanctioned? The quoted article never names it. It is a community with a centuries-old record of slavery and forced marriage. It is a community that deeply values women less than men. It is a community where police, hospitals and governments are under the thumb of superstition. It is a community that knows these things are happening and issues a single response: those who point out these facts are bigots. That community is Islam. I oppose it. – Trevor Blake
Cigarette ads.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, nostalgia was viewed as a medical disease. By the 20th century, nostalgia was regarded as a psychiatric disorder.
More Than Just Being A Sentimental Fool: The Psychology Of Nostalgia
Food supliments, deep breathing, medication, chiropractic, massage and yoga. Who? # Women # Those aged 30-69 # Those with higher levels of education # Those who were not poor # Those living in the West # Those who have quit smoking
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said there is no cholera in his country – as the United Nations warned the deadly epidemic was getting worse.
Universal and annual voluntary testing followed by immediate antiretroviral therapy treatment (irrespective of clinical stage or CD4 count) can reduce new HIV cases by 95% within 10 years. [All the right ethical questions are raised by this one]
First, commercial with disabled person – rare and good. Second, video of Christians fist-fighting – how things used to be all the time.
There are some people who are disabled, and there are some people who are not yet disabled or who don’t know they are disabled. There are some Presidents we know were disabled, and there are some Presidents we don’t yet know were disabled.
Chester Arthur: Brights Disease.
Andrew Jackson: chronic pain.
Calvin Coolidge: depression.
Warren Harding: heart disease.
Dwight Eisenhower: Crohn’s disease.
John Kennedy: Addison’s disease.
Ronald Regan: Alzheimers disease.
George Bush Sr.: Graves’ disease.
Franklin Roosevelt: Polio.
… and more.
As a 17-year-old with Down syndrome, the senior “has been walking on air” since being crowned this month. “Before, I was just plain me,” said Jennings, selected by student vote out of 17 nominated girls. “When I was queen, it changed. It’s amazing. Everyone loves me. I love me.”
In a study of Christian church members who approached their church for help with a personal or family member’s diagnosed mental illness, researchers found that more than 32 percent were told by their pastor that they or their loved one did not really have a mental illness. The problem was solely spiritual in nature, they were told.
‘I have given him boundaries and discipline, and it has worked miracles on his behaviour. The time-out system works at home, too. If he feels he is becoming agitated, he has to sit down or go for a walk until he calms down.’
‘How I weaned my son off Ritalin and proved discipline IS better than drugs’ | Mail Online
