Health and medicine
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Want To Be Happier? Try Gratitude.
If you are one of the many folks who found yourself struggling with mental health during the pandemic (or anytime for that matter), Y. Joel Wong, professor of counseling psychology…
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17 Ways IU Is Rising to the (Grand) Challenge
In 2016, IU President Michael A. McRobbie announced the Grand Challenges program to solve some of our state’s and world’s most pressing problems. Through extensive, interdisciplinary work across six campuses,…
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What’s Next, IU?
IU’s first 200 years saw a cure for testicular cancer, nine Nobel Prize winners, hundreds of Fulbright Scholars, and countless other monumental expressions of creativity, ingenuity, and innovation. But we’re…
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Nursing On Reserve
Their cargo was health supplies, mostly. Screening equipment; miscellaneous sporting goods; an assortment of donations acquired throughout the year; and finally, the luggage of IU Southeast Assistant Professor Julia Mattingly…
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Medical Myths, Busted
Do kids get more colds in day care? Is the five-second rule actually true? Is exercise really the key to weight loss? IU professor and New York Times blogger Dr.…
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Astro-Orthopedics
Imagine watching Neil Armstrong descend the Apollo 11 ladder to take the first steps on the moon. He reaches the bottom rung, pushes off the frame, and plants his foot…
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A Cause for Faith & Fashion in HIV Care
When Faith arrived with her mother at the pediatric ward of the Kenyan hospital closest to the village where they lived, the 4-year-old was so withered that she weighed just…
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Fighting Fire With … Chemistry
Take two sofas—one manufactured today and another in 1970—and light them on fire. If you did, IU Southeast student and firefighter Josh Scalf says you’d notice a difference. Due to…
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Improving Children’s Health, One Game at a Time
Typically, the children play soccer on packed dirt, not grass. And the balls are sometimes rags taped together. Sometimes, they’re just tape. Those were some of the conditions that Sarah…