Karen Veazey

In medicine, law, and aviation—and other fields responsible for people's lives and livelihoods—strict regulations attempt to promote safety, but may discourage people from getting the help they need....

In the ongoing battle against coronavirus, authorities are using whatever means are at their disposal. In some municipalities, police departments are getting creative. They are using newer technology to comply with social distancing requirements while connecting with hard to reach populations.

Medications are intended to help, but women may be experiencing ill-effects from many of them because of gender imbalances during the testing process, according to a new study. Researchers found that drug dosages have typically been set using data collected from clinical trials conducted primarily on men...

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The coronavirus pandemic is hitting everyone hard, but perhaps no one more so than low-income wage earners. Many were already one paycheck away from desperation when the virus hit, and job layoffs and losses have brought some individuals and families to the brink. Governments and advocates are already thinking about this vulnerable population, but will the interventions be sufficient, and will they come soon enough? If not, we may face a catastrophic, unprecedented rise in homelessness.
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Karen Veazey
In the first days of the reopening in my state of Nevada, I contacted my hairstylist and scored one of her first appointments. As I sat in her chair, we discussed the oddity of home life during the quarantine. “I think that if it weren’t for attraction”, she said, “we would choose our partners very differently.”
She said she missed hanging out with her girlfriends; it was a void that her boyfriend just couldn’t fill. This made me think of a misalignment that’s been occurring in h...

Another day, another tweet. And this time, in a tweet casting blame on the "Fake News Media," President Donald Trump denied calling Meghan Markle "nasty," despite the fact that there’s audio of him using the word while discussing the Duchess of Sussex with a reporter.
Trump made the concerning comment about Markle in an interview with The Sun in the Oval Office ahead of a planned trip to the U.K. to visit with the Queen, according to the Associated Press. During the interview, a reporter for ...

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Nothing is worse than seeing your child sick, which is why many parents are vigilant about making sure their children are vaccinated against preventable diseases and illnesses, such as whooping cough. But how often do they need those important vaccines? Or, more specifically, how long is the whooping cough vaccine effective? According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, this vital shot does become less effective over time, so it...

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It says so much about This Is Us, NBC’s unexplainable hit of a show, that its Twitter icon was this:
If you’re the average American viewer, you probably think the show’s success — it was the fifth-most popular show in 2016 behind three football broadcasts and The Big Bang Theory — is perfectly deserved. About 1.1 million TV watchers agree with you. “It’s so reaaaallll,” they say. “It’s so beauuuuutiful,” yada, yada, yada.
I, on the other hand, am the heartless minority who can’t...

Everything I’d been doing the past five days was surreal, so why should this moment be any different?

Cresting a steep hill, I passed under a banner of Buddhist prayer flags and entered a wide plateau. Our guide set down his pack and called for a break as I struggled to moderate my breath rate.

I remember having anxiety as a child and teen, but it really ramped up in my 20s, when I developed an eating disorder. The mental and physical energy that behavior required was a coping mechanism that allowed me to keep anxiety under control. During this period, I also developed severe claustrophobia that still plagues me today. That came with panic attacks in any situation where I can’t get up and walk away easily, like in airplanes or even in social situations I’m not thrilled to be in.
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Most of us are on the lookout for things we consider household hazards — cleaning solutions, caustic substances, sharp objects, etc. — but there are actually more things to be aware of than you may have initially thought. According to new research, several common cosmetic and beauty products send thousands of kids to the E.R. every year and it happens at a pretty astonishing daily rate.
The new research, published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics on Monday, is from the Center for Injury Res...