When she was trying breastfeed her newborn, Baltimore's health commissioner Leana Wen discovered how unwelcoming public spaces can be for moms who need a little privacy to pump. Sometimes she’d end up in a bathroom (“Would you want your food to be made in a public restroom?” she asks), an empty cubicle, a hotel lobby or even a utility closet. Now she advocates for public policies that are more accomodating of new moms who are trying to follow public health guidance about breastfeeding.
Read her moving personal commentary here.
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Do you think that the private thoughts in your head could influence how other people — or creatures — act? Most of us would answer, "no." But a researcher had a hunch that our expectations of others can influence them in surprising ways. He devised a clever way to test this hypothesis. Watch this video from NPR’s Invisibilia team to learn about the experiment and the power of expectations.
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When she was diagnosed with a chronic pain condition, researcher Jelena Janjic refused to take opioids, knowing them to be addictive and not very effective for long-term pain. But there aren’t other good pharmacological options. So she’s trying to develop a new treatment, drawing from cancer nanomedicine to harness the power of the immune system. Read more about her research journey and her personal battle with chronic pain.
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