Through my eyes: Surviving encephalitis
Let me start by saying that before I got sick, I went to school for social work before training to be a dental hygienist....
Through my eyes: COVID-19, breast cancer, and counseling others
My name is Diane McCarthy Prost. I’m a 57-year-old mother of three boys, and I’ve been married to my husband Bob for nearly 30...
Through my eyes: How COVID-19 turned my life upside down
Please note: This article contains some content that our readers may find distressing.It all started in early February when the SARS-CoV-2 virus reached Italy....
Through my eyes: Misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and living with endometriosis as a...
My name is Nadine Dirks; I am a 24-year-old woman from South Africa who has been living with stage 4 endometriosis for over a...
Treating COVID-19: Bipolar drug shows promise and other hopeful findings
We continue our Hope Behind the Headlines series by exploring the most recent — and most hopeful — findings in the field of COVID-19...
What explains racial disparities in sleep? Physicians weigh in
Last week, we dove deep into existing research and revealed profound racial disparities in the amount of sleep that adults in the United States...
How to be an ally for Black lives
The dominating presence of racism, with its harmful effects on both mental and physical health, has been an undeniable reality for Black people for...
Medical myths: All about aging
In the latest installment of our Medical Myths series, we tackle myths associated with aging. Because aging is inevitable and, for some people, frightening,...
Bones in our basements: Addressing COVID-19 and incarceration
Wizdom Powell, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychiatry and the director of the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health, part of the University...
'Ill, abandoned, unable to access help:' Living with long COVID
Those who become ill with milder forms of COVID-19 are expected to recover in around 2 weeks. But an increasing number of people say...
