Disadvantaged neighborhoods, characterized by poverty, unemployment, and other socio-economic challenges, could pose particular environmental risks to the brain.
By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Disadvantaged neighborhoods, characterized by poverty, unemployment and other socio-economic challenges, could pose particular environmental risks to the brain development of children, according to a USC study released today.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, suggests that such factors could affect adolescent neurocognitive performance and even brain size.
Researchers said the findings highlight the importance of neighborhood environments for healthy child and adolescent brain growth.
They also suggested that policies, programs and investments that help improve local conditions and empower communities could better support children s brain development and long-term health.
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The commercials are eye-catching, and no expense was spared: celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga talk about how seeing the WELL Health-Safety seal outside a business makes people feel safer going inside.
But is there really good science behind that seal?
The concept of certifying buildings for meeting certain standards isn t new; LEED green building certification, for instance, started in the 1990s. But the notion may have broader appeal as the country grapples with how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 while helping the economy rebound.
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) launched its original WELL Building Standard in 2014 after a years-long pilot. The company was planning to roll out a 2.0 version of the standard in early 2020, but quickly pivoted when COVID-19 hit, Jessica Cooper, chief commercial officer at IWBI, told
Published: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
A cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. Photo credit: kbrookes/Flickr
A cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. kbrookes/Flickr
President Biden pledged last week to end cancer as we know it, a bold promise focused on boosting funding to the National Institutes of Health for a special Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health.
ARPA-H would be similar to the Department of Energy s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, acting as a technology incubator by funding high-potential, high-impact projects that are too early for private-sector investment, but with the singular purpose to develop breakthroughs to prevent, detect and treat diseases. I can think of no more worthy investment. I know of nothing that is more bipartisan, Biden told Congress last week. So let s end cancer as we know it. It s within our power. It s within our power to do it.
Counties Most Vulnerable to COVID Have Been the Slowest to Vaccinate
Medics transfer a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance outside the Coral Gables Hospital where COVID-19 patients are treated in Coral Gables near Miami, Florida, on July 30, 2020.
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ProPublica analysis of county data maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that early attempts to prioritize people with chronic illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and obesity have faltered. At the same time, healthier and often wealthier counties moved faster in vaccinating residents, especially those 65 and older. (Seniors are a more reliable measure of vaccination progress than younger adults, who are less likely to have been eligible long enough to receive their second shots.) Counties with high levels of chronic illnesses or “comorbidities” had, on average, immunized 57% of their seniors by April 25, compared to 65% of seniors in counties