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TikTok Wellness Trends

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If you’ve spent a significant amount of time on TikTok and you are a reader of publications such as HealthLinks, it’s likely that you’ve come face-to-screen with the online health and wellness community. Self-proclaimed experts on the app show viewers the way to do everything from washing fresh produce – and showing us there might … Read more

Medical Waste Nears Crisis

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Since COVID arrived early in 2020, there have been many increasing global health threats –pneumonia, streptococcus group A, lung infections, fungal pathogens and the mounting likelihood of additional pandemic viruses. But one threat not that many people are talking about, which ironically comes from hospitals and facilities battling COVID, is medical waste. For the rest … Read more

Where Have Therapists Gone?

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When the mental health profession as we know it today began taking shape in the 1950s, there came with it the hurdle of the social stigma – making families desperate to keep their issues quiet and unknown to friends, acquaintances and relatives. While that stigma still exists to a large extent, mental health support is … Read more

Truths About Men’s Depression

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The statistics about men and suicides are alarming: Though men comprise 49% of the population, they account for 80% of all suicides. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression, but men die by suicide three times more often, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Men’s depression and suicide are … Read more

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