Donna Nee, tumuaki (principal) of Henderson North Primary, says that for tamariki, speaking up can be associated with stigma and they can be taught to suppress their feelings. “We know that our tamariki have borne the brunt of their whānau in terms of the social and financial challenges facing the current economic climate. “In that … Read more
‘ART is a form of psychotherapy designed to deal with traumatic thoughts in short periods of time’ All the roots are about the people, places, and events that make us proud to call our community our home. — With more than 25 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, Angela Larmer has dedicated her career … Read more
More than 75% of the food consumed in the world today comes from just 12 plants and five animal species. Overreliance on this limited crop, which includes rice, corn and wheat, is damaging the environment and human health, and is putting our global food system at risk of shock. But above all this, it also … Read more
Another week goes by, and another report comes out highlighting the plight of children and young people’s mental health. The latest arrives from the leftist think tank Resolution Foundation and paints a disturbing picture. It found that the number of children in England and Wales whose families receive Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has more than … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new machine learning model can predict autism in young children from limited information. This is shown in a new study by the Karolinska Institutet published in JAMA Network Open. This model can help to detect autism early, which is important to provide the right support. “With an accuracy of almost … Read more
Prevotellin-2, an antibiotic found in the human intestine, has shown anti-infective efficacy compared to polymyxin B, an FDA-approved antibiotic used today to treat infections drug resistance, suggesting that the human microbiome may one day contain antibiotics. get a clinical application. Credit: Cesar de la Fuente, Ami S. Bhatt The average human gut contains about 100 … Read more
The Biden administration announced on Aug. 16. 2024, reduced prices for the first 10 drugs it negotiated with pharmaceutical companies for their Medicare prices. The provisions allowing these negotiations were part of the Price Reduction Act, which went into effect in 2022, but these lower prices are not scheduled to take effect until 2026. Drugs … Read more
Don’t forget to take care of your physical health as it can change your brain structure and lead to depression! (www.https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/pathways-linking-organ-and-brain-health,-and-impacts-to-mental-health-revealed) Nobel Prize winning poet, Pablo Neruda, in his poem Order to Couragehe argued that the liver, more than the heart or the brain, should be celebrated for its complex functions. But have you ever … Read more
Like many Pacific countries that depend on tourism, Fiji suffered during the peak years of the epidemic. But as tourism booms, another crisis threatens the stability of the island nation – fueled by a growing methamphetamine addiction. Driven by foreign companies that use Fiji as a base of operations in New Zealand and Australia, the … Read more
SINGAPORE – Something a woman said in a TikTok video made me sit up: “You’re not ugly. You just have a cortisol face.” Wait, what is the “cortisol face”? Isn’t cortisol a hormone? Once the algorithm on my phone started to detect my “interest” in this topic, I slowly fed videos of many women talking … Read more