By Gali Katznelson Come September, it seems Ontario students in grades 1-8 will follow the same sexual education curriculum that was taught in schools in 1998.tse Days after the Progressive Conservative Party’s win in Ontario, premier Doug Ford has announced that he will scrap the province’s elementary school sex-ed curriculum and replace it with one…
Headspace is paving the way for the first FDA-approved prescription meditation app. Developers behind the mindfulness smartphone app, which has over 30 million users, are creating a new product under Headspace Health that will begin clinical trials this summer, in hopes of clearing FDA approval by 2020. The team is investigating how the app can…
By Gali Katznelson Recent reports claim that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considering using genetic testing to confirm the relationships of children who enter the country with adults to determine if they share a genetic relationship. The website the Daily Caller reported that Sessions suggested in a radio interview that the government might undertake genetic…
By Gali Katznelson Former first lady Laura Bush published an op-ed in the Washington Post where she reminded us that today’s mass detention centers for children whose parents are accused of illegally crossing the border is a public health crisis — one we have seen before.
By Gali Katznelson Recently there has been a shift in popular parlance toward referring to PCPs as primary health care providers. Not primary health care physicians or practitioners, but providers. This change seems to have increased in popularity after the original passage of the ACA, specifically with the opening of the health insurance marketplaces. But it…
By: Gali Katznelson Jahi McMath was issued a death certificate four years ago in California. Today, at the age of 16, she remains connected to a ventilator in an apartment in New Jersey. Jahi was declared brain dead by her clinicians at Oakland’s Children’s Hospital following a cardiac arrest after a tonsillectomy. A legal battle…
By: Gali Katznelson The demand for donated organs greatly outweighs the supply. In the United States alone, there are roughly 115,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Every ten minutes, a new person is added to the recipient list, and every day, 20 people on the list die waiting. To be an organ donor in…
By: Gali Katznelson In the wake of yet another school massacre, ‘thoughts and prayers’ are not enough. But if we don’t get more laws and regulations soon, we should at least get more facts and figures. Though approximately 30,000 people die of gun related violence each year in America, a 2017 study found that gun…
By Gali Katznelson Until February 2016, medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada, which encompasses both euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, was prohibited under the criminal code as a form of homicide. This ruling was challenged in Carter v Canada in the Supreme Court and overturned on the grounds that the ruling opposed the Canadian…
Cross-posted from the Psychology Today blog, where it originally appeared on January 15, 2018. By Gali Katznelson and J. Wesley Boyd Let’s call it for what it is: Placing prisoners in solitary confinement is tantamount to torture and it needs to stop. The practice of placing incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement dates back to the 1820s in…
