Our most dangerous epidemic right now is not Covid, it is obesity, and we have the basic tools to fight it. Means is a ...

Back in 2023, Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway, a husband and wife team, had recently published two volumes of the Maine ...

How can you make friends in Pittsburgh? Local groups in the Steel City help locals and transplants find their gang.

Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft is the mayor of Alameda. (photo courtesy of Maurice Ramirez — BANG archives) In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy authored a report in which he described hearing ...

In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy named ... our self-esteem," Murthy wrote. In his best-selling book "The Anxious Generation ...

A similar conversation continues in the US. In January, Vivek Murthy, the departing surgeon general, called on the US Congress to add cancer risk warning labels to alcoholic drinks.2 The World Health ...

But that group has been dwindling, according to researchers. Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called the social disconnection an “epidemic of loneliness” and equated its impact on ...

The book is set in a very contemporary time frame, with many real-life references. Why did you choose this setting for the book? I wanted it to be as accessible as possible, not sticking to an ...

Volunteering can offer purpose and connection — key tools as we navigate a loneliness epidemic. Learn how to get involved and find new friends, even when you're not feeling your best. In 2023 ...

In 2024, former United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned that the U.S. is battling an "epidemic of loneliness." The study, which analyzed data from 2018 to 2023 from the University of ...

A month after its final episode aired, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring gun violence “a public health crisis.” “Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun” — an ...

Vivek, as evident in the pictures, is perhaps reading the Red Pandas (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1). The book is authored by Laura Marsh and published by the National Geographic ...