“I’m a beautiful mess of contradiction, a chaotic display of imperfection.” ~Sai Marie Johnson I don’t identify as having an eating disorder. I don’t struggle with anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating. Yet I exercise precise control of my weight, down…
THCB Gang Oct 26, 2023 Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday October 26 at 1pm PST 4pm EST were delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis); author & ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); futurist Ian Morrison…
By MIKE MAGEE Naomi Orestes PhD, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, didn’t mince words as she placed our predicament in context when she said, “If you know your Greek tragedies you know power, hubris, and tragedy go…
As a breast oncologist with Yale Medicine, Eric Winer, MD, is on a mission to lessen racial disparities in breast cancer. And there’s one “entirely unacceptable” statistic he can’t get off his mind. “If you’re a Black American woman and…
Oct. 27, 2023 — California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel admits it. The issue wasn’t on his radar when a coalition of advocates approached him to talk about the need to remove dangerous additives from the food supply. Gabriel, a Democrat from…
SOURCES: Cara King, DO, director, benign gynecologic surgery; associate program director of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS), Cleveland Clinic. Ken Sinervo, MD, medical director, Center for Endometriosis Care, Atlanta. Patrick Yeung Jr., MD, director, SLUCare Center for Endometriosis; assistant professor,…
“‘Finding yourself’ is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” ~Emily McDowell Somewhere between becoming a parent, a wife, and a career woman, I began to…
Photo Credit: kate_sept2004 / Getty Images SOURCES: Kimberley Lee, MD, assistant member, department of breast oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center. Rachel Greenup, MD, associate professor of surgery (oncology, breast), Yale School of medicine; chief, breast surgery, The Breast Center at Smilow…
Some choices – such as whether you exercise, smoke, or drink – can affect your health. But there aren’t many known risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) you can control. This aggressive cancer type often arises in people who…
One of the first times Jesi Stracham spoke to another wheelchair user after her accident was in an inpatient lab with a peer mentor. This was about a month after the 2015 motorcycle accident that broke Stracham’s back and left…
