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The ‘tripledemic’ may mean kids’ fever-reducing medicines are harder to find : Shots
It can be hard to find children’s fever-reducing medication in some areas. At a Bed Bath & Beyond in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, a few products were in stock while others were sold out. Laurel Wamsley/NPR hide caption toggle caption Laurel Wamsley/NPR It can be hard to find children’s fever-reducing medication in some areas. At a Bed Bath & Beyond in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, a few products were in stock while others were sold out. Laurel Wamsley/NPR If you stroll the cold and flu medicine aisle these days, you might notice shelves that are bare, or nearly so. Some medicines that can be particularly hard to find are fever…
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COVID patients find dangerous advice and pills online : Shots
When Stephanie caught COVID-19 just before Thanksgiving of last year, her daughter Laurie suggested that she get help. “She was really not feeling well, and I was like, ‘Just go to the doctor,'” Laurie recalls. But Stephanie, who was 75 at the time, didn’t go. A few years before, she had been sucked into a world of online conspiracy theories — far-fetched ideas like one claiming John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive. With the pandemic, it got worse. She became deeply distrustful of the medical system. Laurie remembers what her mother used to tell her about the COVID vaccines: “Everybody who got vaccinated is going to die.” (NPR is…
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What are Attachment Styles and How to Find Yours | U.S. News | Mind
If you find that you’re constantly getting into relationships with someone who turns out to be the wrong sort of person for you, your problem might be related to a psychological concept called attachment theory. “Attachment styles are sets of expectations that we hold about how others will treat us, and subsequently how we should relate to them,” says Stephanie Kors, a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Each of us relates to other people in unique ways based on our own experience of how the world responds to each of us.” Elnaz Mayeh, director of clinical operations for…
