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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

तकलीफ / Pain – Kaushal Kishore

 

हम ढूंढते हैं 

अपने पसंद के लोग, 

लेकिन पसंद के वही लोग ही 

तकलीफ ज्यादा देते हैं, 

अजीब बात है कि वही तकलीफ

अच्छी लगने लगती है बाद में…

🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️

We look for the people we like, 

but it’s often 

those very individuals 

who often cause more pain, 

strangely this pain eventually 

starts feeling good…

 

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: तकलीफ / Pain – Kaushal Kishore

15 GOP Governors Are Refusing Free Summer Meals for School Kids – Mother Jones

When I spoke to Mandi Remington in late January, she had $7 in her bank account and had run out of milk. At times like these, which happen toward the end of most months, she cobbles together “stone soup” from what’s in the house, she said, or feeds her three children and then makes her own meal from whatever is left on their plates.

So when she found out that Iowa, where she lives in Iowa City, is among the 15 states that decided not to participate in Summer EBT, a new federal food program that would have sent her $40 a month per child while they were out of school, “it was extremely frustrating,” she said. As a single parent who doesn’t receive child support, Remington struggles to make ends meet. Her $55,000 annual salary as a medical records clerk at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics “does not leave much leftover for gas in the car and groceries,” she said, yet she earns too much to qualify for Medicaid and food stamps.

Source: 15 GOP Governors Are Refusing Free Summer Meals for School Kids – Mother Jonesl

How the anti-vaccine movement is downplaying the danger of measles

For every 1,000 cases of  measles, about 200 children may be hospitalized, 50 may get pneumonia, one child may develop brain swelling along with deafness or disability, and between one and three may die. 

Despite the availability of an incredibly effective vaccine, the disease is spreading worldwide. The reasons behind the surge are complex. For countries in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, there are issues of access; childhood vaccine campaigns suffered when Covid weakened already-stretched public health systems. Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. experienced similar, if smaller-scale, disruptions to their childhood vaccine programs during Covid. Rising vaccine skepticism plays a smaller but significant part.

Source: How the anti-vaccine movement is downplaying the danger of measles

Além do Inchaço: Entendendo o Lipedema | Pitacos e Achados

Uma condição médica frequentemente subdiagnosticada e suas implicações

O lipedema é uma condição médica crônica que permanece amplamente subdiagnosticada e pouco compreendida tanto na comunidade médica quanto pelo público em geral. Caracterizado por um acúmulo anormal de gordura nos membros, o lipedema afeta principalmente mulheres e é frequentemente confundido com obesidade ou linfedema.

Este artigo visa esclarecer o que é o lipedema, destacando seus sintomas, causas, diagnóstico e opções de tratamento, além de reconhecer os desafios físicos e emocionais enfrentados por aqueles que vivem com esta condição.

Source: Além do Inchaço: Entendendo o Lipedema | Pitacos e Achados

Anger and Aggression – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“Anger and aggression sometimes seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but what needs to be acknowledged is that that energy is blind. It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view.”

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama

Source: Anger and Aggression – Silent Songs of Sonsnow