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Helping your child overcome pandemic anxiety

April 11, 2022 Anxiety, children, COVID-19, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Laurel Williams offers advice for parents looking to help their children feel safe and anxiety-free during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Humility, flexibility, and resilience: applying global health experience locally

February 25, 2022 COVID-19, Domestic, Global Health, International, Pandemic, Physician, Resources

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected health institutions, plunging well-resourced health systems into an unfamiliar state of relative resource limitations. The U.S. leads the world in

From The Labs

Miniature model of the human nose reveals early events of SARS-CoV-2 and RSV infection

February 22, 2022 COVID-19, human nose model, human nose organoid, palivizumab, Research, RSV, SARS-CoV-2

Researchers anticipate that the human nose organoid system would help accelerate the transfer of lab-developed therapeutics to the bedside.

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Bariatric surgery helps with diabetes, leads to better COVID outcomes, study finds

February 21, 2022 Bariatric surgery, COVID-19, Diabetes

Dr. Samer Mattar explains how bariatric surgery can lead to improvement in the lives of diabetic patients.

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Navigating dating throughout the pandemic

February 7, 2022 COVID-19, Dating, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pandemic

Psychologist Dr. Yasmine Omar provides insight on how to gain confidence and manage anxiety while dating in the pandemic.

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Reboot, reframe, reimagine after two years of COVID-19

January 28, 2022 Baylor College of Medicine, Community, COVID-19, Future, Ideas, TEDx

What does a post-pandemic world look like and when will it be here? The truth is, no one really knows. But what we do know

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Who should be prioritized for scarce medical assistance?

January 21, 2022 antiviral, Baruch A. Brody Award Lecture, COVID-19, immunocompromised, Inequity, scarce medical assistance, scarce medical capacity, Supply, Unvaccinated

This post is a preview of a presentation for the Baruch A. Brody Lecture in Bioethics. Want to learn more about this topic? Tune into the lecture Feb

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Dr. McDeavitt’s Holiday Bubble

December 9, 2021 COVID-19, Holiday Bubble

The Holiday Bubble plan will help you assess the COVID risk at your holiday gathering and advises ways to help manage it.

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COVID-19 and the rise of teenage suicide

November 17, 2021 COVID-19, Mental Health, pediatrics

Dr. Taylor Rosenbaum discusses the connection between COVID-19 and suicide risk among teenagers.

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Moral distress and the role of social workers during COVID-19

November 15, 2021 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, COVID-19, discharge planning, End of Life, Hospital, moral distress, Pandemic, Social worker

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and community-based resources have been cut and ICUs at maximum capacity. Underfunded healthcare systems, lack of healthcare coverage and