Tag: medicine
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Healthy Food, Healthy Minnesota: Why “Food as Medicine” Matters
When communities have access to fresh, nutritious food, they thrive. Unfortunately, many communities don’t have that access. Rising grocery bills, food deserts, and cultural barriers make it harder … Full story: https://www.startribune.com/healthy-food-healthy-minnesota-why-food-as-medicine-matters/601491588
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Maintaining the Evidence for In Vivo Brain Estrogen Receptor Density by Neuroendocrine Aging and Relationships with Cognition and Symptomatology
Journal of Nuclear Medicine January 2025, jnumed.124.269268; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.124.269268 … Full story: https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2025/01/07/jnumed.124.269268
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Research into Hmong herbal medicine
Zongxee Lee is a Hmong woman who reside in Minnesota, the United States of Amerca, and one of many who study Hmong herbal medicine from her mother as well as working as a nurse for the last decade. Full story: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/hmong/en/podcast-episode/tshawb-fawb-txog-hmoob-tej-tshuaj-rau-qaib/ejr6xh69i
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Minnesota Landscape Arboretum exhibit focuses on Hmong medicine and culture
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is featuring a Hmong herbal garden in its “Seeds of Knowledge and Healing” exhibit. It tells the story of Zongxee Lee’s herbal medicine journey. Lee comes from a long … Full story: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-landscape-arboretum-hmong-garden/
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M Health Fairview program increases food security for Minnesota families
The health system started the “food is medicine” approach in hopes of addressing food insecurity that can lead to poor health outcomes for patients. Read Full Article
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Manitowoc’s Nenglee Vang fled Laos with her mother and siblings in 1980. They sold embroidered items to survive. | Our Hmong Neighbors
Nenglee fled Laos with her mother and siblings in 1980. They sold embroidered items to get money for food and medicine. Here’s their story. Read Full Article
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Essay On The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
The book narrates about the conflict between modern medicine and the ancient beliefs amongst Hmong culture.The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a book written about the life of Lia Lee. Lia is … Read Full Article
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Desperate for Covid Care, Undocumented Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs
Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies from “wellness” clinics or turning to the black market. Read Full Article
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UW research projects to deploy strategies to lessen racial inequities
More than a dozen, recently funded UW-Madison research projects aim to develop strategies to take data on racial inequities and use it to make real world changes from journalism to medicine. The … Read Full Article
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Emergency medicine
that the Hmong way of handling the epilepsy is the best way. There is not a clear answer to which way is the right way to handle Lia’s medical situation without being bias of your own culture. Not one … Read Full Article
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The only Hmong plastic surgeon in the world would like to see that change
“He helped me gain my confidence back.” Thao, 48, plays an outsized role in medicine and his community. He is the first Hmong doctor in the U.S. to become a surgeon and, as far as anyone can tell, the … Read Full Article
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So You Discovered Something that Might Save Lives … Now What?
Throughout the history of medicine and science, researchers have frequently discovered evidence of promising ways to improve health outcomes for patients and communities — only to have those findings … Read Full Article
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Current Clinical Trial Assessing Potential of CBD in Treatment of Autism
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are recruiting eligible children between the ages of seven and fourteen years for a Phase III clinical trial to determine whether … Read Full Article
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After looting and damage, north Minneapolis clinic seeks larger justice
As the Broadway Family Medicine Clinic partially reopened to patients Monday, physicians and other staff are focusing on repairing the damage and creating something even bigger — an effort to bring … Read Full Article