Kaitlin Sullivan
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Freelance health, science, enviro journalist Contributor @NBCNews • @NewmarkJSchool alumn Posting in a place without ads @kaitsulliva.bsky.social
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Joined September 2011
This is part of a story I've been following for nearly 7 years. Early research has suggested ibogaine works differently than other psychedelics & uniquely can eliminate symptoms of opioid withdrawal, which creates a window for people to get clean. https://t.co/D3ICHlXtYS
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Clinics and scientists around the world aim to turn a profit from a powerful Gabonese plant – but it’s an ethical and legal wild west
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96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression.
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Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people
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"Journalists can fall into a trap of parroting the language provided by officials, whether that’s law enforcement, the courts, politicians, academics, or subject-matter experts," writes Doris Truong.
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Red 3 has been banned from cosmetics and topical pharmaceuticals for decades. It remains in food
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A decision on Red No. 3, the synthetic coloring made from petroleum, could come in the next few weeks.
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If you're someone who doesn't exercise, getting as little as 1.5 minutes of heart-pumping activity per day (taking the stairs, carrying heavy groceries to the far stretches of the parking lot) can have a drastic effect on heart health
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In people who declared themselves “nonexercisers,” several short bursts of activity throughout the day were linked to heart-healthy benefits.
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women died because they received no life saving care as they were having miscarriages in Georgia and the state responded by simply eradicating the committee that investigated deaths of pregnant women.
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Semaglutide reduced alcohol-related hospitalizations in people with alcohol use disorder: https://t.co/xlDMLiYuNI
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People taking GLP-1 drugs had fewer alcohol-related hospitalizations than people taking standard drugs for alcohol use disorder.
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Today, Missouri voted remove the state's near-total ban on abortion and enshrine the right to contraception
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More women are facing challenges to filling their prescriptions for contraceptives like IUDs.
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Now let's move onto climate change
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Climate change is expanding the habitat of the mosquitoes that carry the disease, allowing them to spread further north.
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This is from 2022. We now know that what *could* happen has.
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The same procedures and medications used in abortions are also used to safely care for miscarriages.
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