As the college’s growing landscape creates more varied clinical opportunities for students, this expansion presents a challenge: how do you ensure students have vital mental health resources when they’re many miles away from campus?
Category: Health & Medicine
Q&A: How Can Feeling in Control Foster Healthy Aging Among Adult Cancer Survivors?
Having control over your own health through access to medical appointments, healthy foods, clean air and water, among other resources indeed fosters better health. It’s equally understandable that when an individual doesn’t have these, they are at risk for worse health. But simply believing that you don’t have control over your health could actually compound these problems, according to a recently published study from Drexel University researchers in the journal Psychology, Health & Medicine.
Q+A: Breastfeeding Benefits and Formula Facts: What Parents Should Know
Registered Dietitian Beth Leonberg, DHSc, an associate clinical professor emerita in Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, shares expertise on infant feeding options.
Q+A: When Water Runs Dry, Consumers are More Likely to Turn to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
What happens to beverage consumption habits when tap water is not readily available 24/7? A team led by Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD, a professor and associate dean, and Doctoral Research Fellow Juan Carlos Figueroa Morales, both in the Dornsife School of Public Health, used nationally representative survey data on beverage habits from Mexico’s 2022 Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición, to glean new insights between frequency of water supply access and beverage choices among adults in Mexico.
Is it Time to Sunset Hats’ UV Protection Claims?
Erum N. Ilyas, MD, interim chair of dermatology in the College of Medicine and colleagues sort out these questions in a recently published article in The Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology. The teamfound that those UPF claims — which refer to the hat’s ability to block UV — aren’t really that reliable for consumers seeking protection from the sun’s rays.
Q+A: Eating Disorders and Body Image: Two Overlooked Problems for Men
The growing popularity of weight-loss medications like GLP-1s has triggered a broad reevaluation of the driving forces behind our relationship with food. As a result, researchers are also taking a fresh look at the neurological and psychological drivers of eating disorders — including binge-spectrum eating disorders, which affect approximately 2.8 million adults in the United States.
Q+A: Will New European Union Regulations Impact Your Gel Manicure?
Earlier this month, the European Union announced a ban on a typical ingredient used in manicures and pedicures, classifying it as “carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction.”
Q+A: How One Family Medicine Doctor is Approaching Vaccination This Fall
Although the telltale signs of fall are already approaching – leaves changing, a chill in the air, kids going back to school – one harbinger of the season might look a little different this year: vaccine recommendations.
What News Media Gets Right and Wrong about SNAP Eligibility
Considering the importance of media coverage to SNAP’s success, is this coverage fair and comprehensive? Researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health set out to answer this question, recently publishing an article in the journal Health Affairs Scholar that analyzed 84 news stories from 1997 through 2022 about a measure of SNAP eligibility.
Q&A: How Hot is Too Hot for Indoor Living?
With summer months approaching, soon too will household battles over thermostat temperatures. A new research review, authored by Drexel University public health researchers, looking at 29 papers, spanning five continents, may inform these debates with insights on how indoor temperatures impact health.