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Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the ...
It is effectively an epidemic on a global scale. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which ripped across the globe following World War I, is a typical example of a pandemic but there are countless examples ...
These intertwined failures of messaging and policy raise the question: Does the U.S. have epidemic amnesia? The monkeypox response is following an eerily familiar pattern: Viruses begin in a ...
In the heart of America lies a quiet crisis, one that predates the global upheaval brought by Covid-19 yet has found fertile ground in its wake: a profound epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
The original “Tipping Point” concentrated on three main concepts that Gladwell argued were essential to understanding social epidemics. It described the Law of the Few, the indispensable role ...
In his first news conference as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – April is autism awareness month, but one local advocate for the autism community believes the recent national spotlight on the “autism epidemic” needs to change.
“The HIV epidemic is not over, not by a long shot. The scare around HIV and death is gone. And that is exactly what we wanted. We didn’t want people to think of HIV and be scared of it.
The opioid epidemic is a public health catastrophe that has devastated families across the country. What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis.