Of all the physical symptoms of anxiety, shortness of breath might be one of the most frightening. Your chest gets heavy and tight, you feel like you can’t suck in enough air, and you might even get dizzy or lightheaded. And feeling like you can’t breathe can make you feel even more anxious, which in…
At the 2019 Pan American Games, Olympian Gwen Berry won a gold medal for the hammer throw. Atop the podium, at the end of the national anthem, she bowed her head and raised a fist as a demonstration against racial injustice and police brutality in America. Olympic Fencer Race Imboden, who also won a gold…
The timeline of Netflix’s Lenox Hill can be hard to follow at times, but one thing is clear to viewers from the beginning: the series, which documents the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of four doctors at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital, was filmed pre-COVID-19. In fact, after a year and a half of filming,…
Routine screening for depression in adults is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force, but there are no current screening recommendations for anxiety in women who, according to the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI), experience a prevalence of anxiety disorders at a rate at nearly twice that of men. Now though, WPSI, a federally…
