Chronic disease Archive
By: Kristine AlarconEdited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. “Life again” highlights the true story of cancer survivor, Hyma Reddy. Reddy also directs the film and shares her journey with cancer. With this film, she hopes to bring cancer awareness and inspire …
Donna Jackson Nakazawa More than 133 million American adults — one in two of us — suffer from a chronic condition, including autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders, migraines, back pain, depression, diabetes, cancer and chronic pain. A recent study …
Recent research shows that alternative therapies for chronic back pain, such as yoga, actually work. Now, it’s time to get workers’ compensation to pay for these gentle and effective treatments. Many people who suffer from chronic back pain look for …
Dr. Jonathon Rendina, Hunter College, CUNY The minority stress theory suggests that health disparities experienced by gay and bisexual men (GBM) and other sexual minorities can be explained in terms of stigma-related stressors such as discrimination at work, school, religious …
If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, or feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current …
I’ve had a rough couple of days. And honestly, this post is written for me mainly. But I hope you like it too. I hold many defenses, beliefs and manifestations from my trauma, but the most prominent has always been …
Dr. Nancy Hardt ______________________ The most important thing I didn’t learn in medical school is about adverse childhood experiences, also known as ACEs. To be sure, if I had understood them then the way I do now, I would have …
“It’s about so much more than childhood sexual abuse,” says Johnna Janis about her feature documentary, Invisible Scars, a remarkable film about her own sexual abuse and her journey of recovery. Janis produced and directed the film with long-time friend, …
In October 2015 in Pueblo, CO, the staff members of a primary care medical clinic – Southern Colorado Family Medicine at the St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center – start asking parents of newborn babies to kids five years old about …
Cutting-edge research tells us that experiencing childhood emotional trauma can play a large role in whether we develop physical disease in adulthood. In Part 1 of this series we looked at the growing scientific link between childhood adversity and …
