December 28, 2023
(STAT News) – Women who had undergone disfiguring surgery for breast cancer, according to one surgeon in the 1970s, needed to “stick an old sock in their bra and get on with their lives.” It was this climate that Betty … Read More
December 28, 2023
(Medscape) – US suicide rates rose sharply between 1999 and 2020, with the greatest increase in American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) populations and White men, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show. Suicide rates increased 65% … Read More
December 28, 2023
(New York Times) – Canada already has one of the most liberal assisted death laws in the world, offering the practice to terminally and chronically ill Canadians. But under a law scheduled to take effect in March assisted dying would … Read More
December 22, 2023
(CBC) – His symptoms progressed and he began having numbness in his other foot. He started to use a cane to help him walk. By now, Bergstrom says, plans were moving quickly. Within two weeks, his diagnosis was put into … Read More
December 14, 2023
(National Post) – After 10 weeks in hospital, Quayle, a gregarious grandfather who put on his best silly act for his two grandkids, was in so much pain, unable to eat or walk, he opted for a medically assisted death … Read More
December 1, 2023
(New York Times) – The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it more than 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control … Read More
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(NPR) – In a new book, The Invisible Ache, Vance and psychologist Robin L. Smith (who often goes by Dr. Robin) explore the trauma unique to Black men and boys, and address what they see as an urgent need to … Read More
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