"We should be talking more about how showing up for your family — as millions of American men clearly do every day — is a form of masculine virtue." https://buff.ly/3DjpN2A #Caregiving #Gender
Hollywood, Health & Society
Entertainment Providers
Los Angeles, California 662 followers
We provide Hollywood writers/producers with free resources and access to experts on health, safety and security.
About us
Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) is a program at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center that provides entertainment industry professionals with accurate and timely information for storylines on health, safety and security. With funders that have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The SCAN Foundation, N Square Collaborative and the California Health Care Foundation and others, the program recognizes the profound impact that entertainment has on individual knowledge and behavior.
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https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/
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- Entertainment Providers
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- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California
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- Nonprofit
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- 2001
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734 W Adams Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90007, US
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#Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.
https://www.nytimes.com
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Actor Jason George talks about his new passion project: flipping the script on how guns are portrayed in the media and making gun safety cool, including HH&S's #GunSafety guide for the media
Work in Progress: Jason George
podcasts.apple.com
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Here’s how good new 3D mammogram tests are at detecting cancer and preventing false positive results for #BreastCancer
3-D Mammograms Are Overtaking Traditional Scans. But Are They Better?
https://www.nytimes.com
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As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.
America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old
theatlantic.com
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One day, scientists might develop accurate A.I. models of the human body, enabling a prospective drug to be tested on a model long before it’s given to people. For the foreseeable future, however, prospects will need to keep playing minor-league games; there is no A.I. replacement for expensive and painstaking clinical trials, in which many medicines fail. https://buff.ly/3zaIbJm #FutureOfMedicine #AI #ClinicalTrials
How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs
newyorker.com
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Americans are dying of illnesses related to alcohol at roughly twice the rate seen in 1999.
Alcohol Deaths Have More Than Doubled in Two Decades, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com
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"Stories that help us navigate our very understandable fear, anxiety, grief, despair, uncertainty and anger in a way that allows us to feel seen... And we need stories that expose the guilt of the fossil fuel industry." – Anna Jane Joyner of Good Energy #ClimateChange
Opinion: Helene destroyed my hometown. I don't want climate change stories of false hope
latimes.com
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#FilmFriday: the documentary 'Super/Man' chronicles the life of the paralyzed Christopher Reeve, covering his friendship with Robin Williams, gut-wrenching details about his #caregiving and family, battling with private #HealthCareInsurance, and lobbying Congress to raise lifetime insurance caps #MoreCareOnScreen
6 Takeaways From the Christopher Reeve Documentary ‘Super/Man’
https://www.nytimes.com
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Thank you everyone who attended our panel last week tackling #caregiving in entertainment with HH&S Director Kate Folb and panelists DJ Nash, showrunner of #AMillionLittleThings; Jonny Gomez, a writer on #ThisIsUs; Morgan Sackett, EP of #AManOnTheInside; and Lydia Storie, culture change manager at Caring Across Generations #MoreCareOnScreen USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center
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