In The News: Department of Social and Behavioral Health

Indica News

Diabesity is a term used to describe the blending of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The adverse health effects of these two conditions have commonalities. The term was first coined by Sims and colleagues in the 1970s, to highlight the close connection between type 2 diabetes and obesity. This condition is also referred to as obesity-dependent diabetes.

India Currents

How does one overcome a drug addiction? Dr. Manoj Sharma explains the impact of drug dependency and how to tackle it.

New India Abroad

Drowsy driving among college students and young drivers in America is a public health challenge that critically impacts road safety drives with the rising number of accidents involving the youth and new drivers, according to a new study published by the public health experts of the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ (UNLV).

India Currents

Ranjan* a 55-year-old first-generation immigrant to the United States lives in Texas. Last year, his wife, Usha* (54) was injured in an automobile accident that damaged her spine causing paraplegia. Even after rehabilitation Usha is still unable to use her lower limbs and is wheelchair-bound. She is dependent on Ranjan for her daily living activities. The couple do not have any children.

Indica News

Recent news reports point to the rising cases of whooping cough or pertussis in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pertussis cases were lower than usual during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, as of week 39, reported on September 28, 2024, more than five times as many cases have been reported, compared to the same time in 2023. Several states have issued warnings about this trend on their websites. This summer, there was a pertussis outbreak among college students in the Lynchburg area of Virginia.

MedicalBrief

American scientists have suggested that people identifying as a sexual or gender minority (LGBTQ+) have a higher likelihood of adverse brain health outcomes, according to cross-sectional data.

MedPage Today

People who identified as a sexual or gender minority (LGBTQ+) had a higher likelihood of adverse brain health outcomes, cross-sectional data showed.

Indica News

A recent news story in the media claimed that frequent coffee drinkers may be risking their hearts. Is that true? Is caffeine, the active ingredient in coffee, injurious to health? What is the current evidence regarding caffeine on health? We examine some of these questions closely.

The Daily Guardian

In Eastern philosophy, all entities in nature, including human beings, are made of three qualities or gunas: rajas (passion, activity, change, creation), sattva (goodness, harmony, purity, preservation), and tamas (darkness, chaos, inertia, destruction). In an apple tree, there are three kinds of fruits that denote these three gunas: there are ripening fruits (rajas), there are ripe fruits (sattva) and there are overripe fruits (tamas). In human beings, also there are people full of passion and energy (domination of rajas), people in harmony and purity (domination of sattva) and people who are lazy and full of inertia (domination of tamas).

IndicaNews

Mpox (previously known as monkeypox but later determined to be a misnomer) is a serious disease that has recently been causing concern around the world. What is Mpox? It is an infectious viral disease that can exhibit mild symptoms but can also become fatal. The typical symptoms are rash all over the body (like chicken pox showing small bumps), fever with chills, headache, body ache, swollen lymph nodes, and general malaise.

The Daily Guardian

We all need some pointers for introspection in our spiritual journey. Here I present ten sutras or pointers for a positive spiritual life.

IndiaCurrents

Arman* is a first-generation immigrant to the United States and resides in the Chicago area. He is a 32-year-old computer engineer with 5 years of experience in the IT sector. He is single and owns a three-bedroom home in a suburb of Chicago that he mortgaged last year. Last year, he also took up a job with a new company that offered a much higher salary than his previous company. However, the new job requires him to work much longer hours than he has done before.