by NIAAH Editors | Mar 8, 2022 | Our Health
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio January 10, 2022 This time, it didn’t take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it was. So when her...
by NIAAH Editors | Mar 8, 2022 | Our Health
Chaseedaw Giles February 16, 2022 Though I grew up in Roxbury, “the heart of Black culture in Boston,” I now live in Los Angeles, where I typically shop for groceries at Whole Foods Market or Trader Joe’s. Their produce is fresh, green, abundant. Organic options...
by NIAAH Editors | Mar 8, 2022 | Our Health
Monica Dus, University of Michigan People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions down to the...
by NIAAH Editors | Feb 28, 2022 | Our Health
Alexis Karteron, Rutgers University – Newark President Joe Biden made good on his promise to nominate the first Black female justice to the Supreme Court when he announced that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was his choice on Feb. 25, 2022. Jackson is currently a...
by NIAAH Editors | Feb 28, 2022 | Our Health
COVID guidelines have changed a lot over the past few years as the pandemic has ebbed and flowed. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Michael Williams, University of Virginia No one gave a second thought to the safety of dining out before the pandemic. Fast-forward to today, and it’s...
by NIAAH Editors | Feb 24, 2022 | NIAAH Scholars
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington The two most successful coronavirus vaccines developed in the U.S. – the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines – are both mRNA vaccines. The idea of using genetic material to produce an immune response has opened up a world of research...
by NIAAH Editors | Feb 22, 2022 | Medical Experts & Research, Our Health
James Dillard, Penn State In the recent film “Don’t Look Up,” two astronomers learn that a comet is on track to collide with Earth and destroy human civilization. When they try to sound the alarm, all manner of obstacles get in their way. In the end, well, you’ll have...
by NIAAH Editors | Jan 30, 2022 | Medical Experts & Research, Our Health
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia People are understandably worn out, tired of thinking about COVID-19 and wanting to get back to a true normal. This so-called “pandemic fatigue” is real. But it’s also contributing to lapses in COVID-19 precautions and...
by NIAAH Editors | Jan 9, 2022 | NIAAH Scholars, Our Health
Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Mississippi State University A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8...
by NIAAH Editors | Jan 9, 2022 | Our Health
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he said, was his “soul brother.” “He has...
