Stress About Money Is Doing a Number on Your Heart Health Rozalynn S. Frazier
Think “taking care of your heart” and you might flash to eating salmon and doing HIIT. That’s not wrong. But there’s another factor that may be just as important: managing your financial health.
Even before Covid exploded, plenty of Americans were saddled with debt. Now about two thirds of us are financially unhealthy, meaning we’re struggling with basics like spending less than we make, paying bills on time, having sufficient savings, and dealing with debt, according to the U. S. Financial Health Pulse: 2020 Trends Report. Millions of people risk extreme financial hardship on the verge of not being able to pay for housing, food, health care, or medications. What’s more, money stress is especially toxic for people who are Black, according to a recent finding from the Jackson Heart Study, a 20-plus-year examination of the reasons heart disease is more prevalent in African Ame
Researchers develop new way to evaluate tuberculosis treatments 18 May, 2021
Gregory Robertson, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at CSU, is one of the first authors on the study. He said that the effectiveness of tuberculosis treatments has been judged by studying tissue cultures from infected patients. Photo: John Eisele/CSU Photography
Tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a serious global health threat. The disease caused an estimated 1.5 million deaths in 2019 and current methods often fail to predict treatment outcomes in patients.
Nature Communications provides an important new basis for comparing the effectiveness of different tuberculosis treatments and accelerating the development of shorter treatment regimens. The research team was led by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with Colorado State University’s Mycobacteria Research Laboratories
PROVIDENCE A trash-strewn parking lot sandwiched between La Gigantes Meat Market and a pawn shop on Elmwood Avenue has been home for the last two months for Matthew Roberts, his girlfriend and dog.
Roberts has paid at least $100 a week and done work for the market’s owner in exchange for parking his 1992 Ford Econoline RV on the dirt lot. He s been told, though, that at the end of the month it s time to move on. Once again, Roberts will be in search of a safe place to park.
“I can’t find anywhere to go. Even friends and family don’t want us there,” said Roberts, 40.