ICYMI: The Perils Of A Bad Mug Shot And Why STD-Testing Condoms Might Not Be That Awesome

29 Jun

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, first-person essays by individuals affected by stigmatized diseases and disorders caught our eye. We spent time with the account of a writer struggling with chronic kidney damage from the lithium … Read More »

Your Primary Responsibility in Life

28 Jun

Life is not as complicated as our minds lead us to believe. In this powerful video, Eckhart Tolle explains the deeper meaning beneath the word responsibility. Quite simply, our ultimate responsibility is the state of our consciousness. There is nothing … Read More »

ICYMI: What Your Birth Month Says About Your Health And The Story Behind America’s Obsession With Perfect Teeth

13 Jun

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we couldn’t put down emergency doctor Craig Spencer’s account of recovering from Ebola in New York City last year. We were also awed by video footage of a nipple tattoo … Read More »

ICYMI: People ‘Borrow’ Stories And The Disturbing Way We Get Brain Injuries

6 Jun

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. Our news diet this week took a depressing, gender-based turn after we read a disheartening report about how science is still viewed as a male profession around the world. We learned that … Read More »

An Anthropological Approach To California’s Vaccination Problem

31 May

Sean Gallup via Getty Images By Tom Jacobs As we were reminded during California’s recent measles outbreak, a surprising number of well-educated people decide each year not to have their children immunized against an array of communicable diseases. Trying to … Read More »

ICYMI: The Rise Of Trigger Warnings And What An Empty Inbox Says About Your Personality

30 May

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we read everything we could get our hands on about human behavior, including an essay on what the rise of trigger warnings and safe spaces say about us as a … Read More »