Currently Creasing: Week of October 14
Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week
Is Celery Juice a Sham? There are claims that the staid, crunchy workhorse usually found beside Buffalo wings can heal autoimmune diseases, among other benefits. Is that true?
California Now Requires Perinatal Health Providers To Receive Implicit Bias Training: The fight to end Black maternal mortality rate continues to be a battle as high rates of African Americans love their lives to childbirth due to medical racism.
Why Are Health Care Providers Slapping And Yelling At Mothers During Childbirth? Physical and verbal abuse are a shockingly common experience for mothers, a new study in The Lancet reports.
Your Guide To The Massive (And Massively Complex) Opioid Litigation: The largest-ever federal action related to the U.S. opioid crisis is on the cusp of its first trial next week — and it's complicated. So here's a brief(ish) explainer breaking it all down.
Why Everything Is Getting Louder: The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.
Lyme Vaccines Show New Promise, and Face Old Challenges: The first human Lyme vaccine was pulled off the market nearly twenty years ago. A new effort faces lingering suspicions.
How mucus tames microbes: Specialized sugar molecules called glycans can disarm opportunistic pathogens and prevent infection.
