May 12, 2023 — Student entrepreneurs at Northwestern University outside Chicago invented a pen set that allows Parkinson’s disease patients to write again despite the tremors of the disease. SteadyScrib, a pen designed with these symptoms in mind, seeks to counteract…
In part three of our three-part series, Olympic medalist Molly Seidel, she talks about working on her mental health every day. Molly Seidel knows a thing or two about the work it takes to succeed: She is one of only…
May 10, 2023 — Advisors from the FDA made strides today toward approving the country’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, voting unanimously that widening the pill’s availability would provide more benefits than harm. The FDA approval of the oral contraceptive…
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.” ~Viktor Frankl A couple of years ago, I was sitting in my little mountain cottage, writing away…
Weight bias refers to negative attitudes and discrimination aimed at people because of their body weight. In the WebMD webinar “The Impact of Weight Bias,” Joe Nadglowski explained it’s common in our society – even among doctors and other health…
