Do Not Romanticize Mental Health In Media Or Talk
Generation Conversations discusses how glamorizing mental illness harms awareness efforts. It warns against trends like high functioning anxiety and eating disorder aesthetics and notes Netflix's 13 Reasons Why simplifies suicide while ignoring therapy and consequences. The column advocates factual understanding and urges seeking professional help when needed.
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Women and menopause signs treatments and risks
The Lancet urges educated view on hormone replacement therapy and its role in treating hot flashes vaginal dryness and urinary symptoms. For those under 60 or within a decade of menopause benefits may outweigh risks though family history of stroke breast cancer or heart disease matters.
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Women’s Health Initiative
Joan Rivers
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Health misinformation on social media whack a mole challenge
Dr. Garth Graham of YouTube notes health misinformation is a garden in need of tending as platforms wrestle how to weed bad content while planting access to high quality information. Studies show widespread misinformation on vaccines COVID 19 and pandemics with real harms. Platforms ban risky claims like turpentine and promote policy aligned with health authorities. Experts acknowledge ongoing challenges and the whack a mole nature of countering false health content.
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Garth Graham
YouTube
Bulletin of the World Health
Ganization
Council of Canadian Academies
Graham
Facebook
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Meta Platforms Inc
TikTok
Timothy Caulfield
University of Alberta
Los Angeles
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