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Celtics spend Media Day highlighting newfound health
The Boston Celtics haven't been at full strength to start the last two seasons, but that should hopefully change this year.
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging. Researchers found healthy eye tissue and active proteins specially adapted for seeing blue light in the dim Arctic depths. DNA repair mechanisms may help keep their eyes functioning across centuries. The discovery could eventually offer new clues for protecting human vision as we age.
Sick Kids, Stalled Science: America’s Pediatric Health Funding Crisis
Pediatric health is critically underfunded, despite 1/3 of the global population being kids. But the ROI of investing in kids yields profound health and economic returns.
AJPH Supplement Spotlighting Special Olympics Health Programming Demonstrates How Inclusive Public Health Spaces Improve the Health of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Implementing strategies to improve health outcomes in all communities requires public health spaces to include people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) at the table when it comes to policy, funding and research decisions. As one of the largest organizations providing inclusive health programs for, and collecting health data on, people with IDD, Special Olympics provides a roadmap, in a new AJPH supplement, for public health practitioners to follow to address the profound health needs of people with IDD. The supplement, titled “Achieving Health Equity for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities: Making an Elusive Goal A Reality,” outlines the urgent need for inclusive health systems and equipping health care workers.