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The situation was made worse because in 1998 a report was released by Wakefield, et al claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism. I went well down the rabbit hole reading everything I could to find out how serious this risk would be for my baby. A disproportionate amount of self-...
»WSJ:Men Get the Jobs That Get Them Ahead, Study Finds. I've tended to believe that a lot of pay disparity is based on women's inability or unwillingness to negotiate as aggressively as men - your starting pay is the basis for all of your raises throughout your time at any company...
Most of the interventions took place in an educational setting however, it is important to consider adolescents outside the educational system. Encouraging help-seeking should come with the increased availability of mental health support for all adolescents in need, but this is still a major challeng...
Not long ago, a friend -- the same one who lost his job in Academia, in the Northeast last year for being too white, too Christian, too male -- was surveying the people we know who are trying, however ineffectively to fight the good culture war and said
For example, asking a subject to make a judgment about a statement, such as "I am a good friend" versus a statement that is self-neutral, such as "water is necessary for life." Others have looked at brain pathology in people with disorders of self. These studies have fairly consistently...
A mother’s burnout affects herself, the child, and the whole family, aggravating confusion and becoming a social problem. This burnout is especially common when the mother feels that she can no longer recover energy for difficult tasks while the number of situations that cannot be dealt with ...
There is a scarcity of information about the experience of people with intellectual disabilities in the medication use process. Six people with intellectual disabilities consented to be interviewed by a pharmacist to determine their knowledge and views of medication use. Data from semi-structured intervi...