ANNOUNCING 🎥 🌍 🌱 Independence from Plastic: A ‘micro’ plastic-free film contest. Show @plasticpollutes a plastic-free world in 60 seconds or less. Grand prize $2,000 bit.ly/PPCFilmContest…
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White and Black women were more likely to have an offered heart accepted by their transplant team, Black men had the longest wait for a transplant – translating into a longer wait time and a higher waitlist mortality for Black men. buff.ly/43Ai0X1 #HealthcareDisparity

For Earth Month, inspire students about Creative Regreening Solutions to Save the Planet! This lesson which ties in to the free short film series Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops is an empowering antidote to climate anxiety. sharemylesson.com/teaching-resou… @ShareMyLesson AFT @AFtteach #Scitlap

Researchers are exploring artificial womb tech that could help humans survive extremely #PrematureBirth & avoid serious complications, i.e. blindness & permanent damage to lungs and brains – but bioethics & feasibility questions remain. buff.ly/3Jq4ZWI #FutureOfMedicine

While women’s #ClinicalTrial participation has increased, clinical trials still largely are not designed for women. Industry experts what's going on, and what can be done, in this podcast episode: buff.ly/49vgiHT

#WomensHealth #HealthEquity#FutureOfMedicine

Black Americans represent 13% of the U.S. population, yet just 6% of U.S. physicians are Black. Increasing representation among doctors is one solution experts believe could help disrupt #HealthInequities buff.ly/3ELfVMl #SystemicRacism #DEI

As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you. buff.ly/3VRlKBE #PlasticPollution #ClimateCrisis

Dana Weinstein, project specialist for our Media Impact Project and one of our lead researchers on plastics pollution depictions on TV, discusses our relationship to plastics in this conversation on NPR.

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'The past is messy, and depicting it can be unsettling. But understanding that is what separates us from robots.'

Writer and filmmaker Kabir Chibber discusses a new trend in Hollywood: the Magical Multiracial Past: buff.ly/3TI8dK3

#DEI #Racism #HistoricalRevisionism

♪ All across the nation, we trust in defecation ♪

You have enough to worry about these days – you don’t need to add #ColorectalCancer to the list. Here's a cheerful reminder from #Scrubs to get a #colonoscopy starting at age 45 to screen for cancer! #TVThursday #CheckThePoo

Rates of #ColorectalCancer in people under 50 have been increasing since the 1990s, and there’s one surprising symptom in particular that’s been gaining attention on social media: pencil-thin poop. buff.ly/43O1tz5

I’m excited and honored to return to my alma mater USC to serve as the USCSDA commencement speaker for the 2024 BFA/MFA ceremony!

In another #greenwashing moment, a major lobbying group spent nearly $30m on ads touting ‘clean energy’ potential of #propane – and downplaying full climate impacts. buff.ly/3xpYznP #ClimateCrisis

Neil Schluger, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College, argues that the #SCOTUS hearing over #Mifepristone , aka #MedicationAbortion , fundamentally jeopardizes the professional fabric of medicine. buff.ly/49vxq0a #abortion

Hollywood, Health & Society Bless this man and his journey.

My next kidney might very well be a pig kidney.

What I fear though is that this new development will make people less willing to donate their own kidneys in the short term.

Let's all pray and hope for a brighter future.

Colon and rectal cancers are increasing among people younger than 50. Experts have a few ideas about why. buff.ly/3VGJYyC

#ColonCancer #RectalCancer #Colonoscopies

#ICYMI : Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged per his doctors' observations. buff.ly/43RGRpt #FutureOfMedicine #KidneyTransplant #OrganDonation