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3 weeks ago | 
medium.com | Danielle Ellis
Why does saying “no” feel like a betrayal? Why do we feel the need to explain ourselves when setting boundaries, or feel awkward when someone sets one with us? The emotional discomfort around boundaries is real — but that discomfort doesn’t mean boundaries are wrong. In fact, it means they’re working. Boundaries are necessary tools for safety, self-knowledge, and mutual respect.
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4 weeks ago | 
medium.com | Danielle Ellis
In my two decades navigating corporate America, building inclusive policies, and founding organizations that center family well-being and equity, I’ve observed a disturbing shift. Hate, once confined to fringe groups, now echoes through policies, corporate cultures, school boards, and government buildings.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | Danielle Ellis
Its a Thursday afternoon and I’m sitting in a nail salon, mentally preparing for the serenity I’ve carved out in the middle of a long workweek. The air smells like acetone and lavender lotion. A woman is seated across from me, feet soaking in a tub, her voice carrying over the ambient R&B playlist and the soft hum of dryers.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | Danielle Ellis
We talk a lot about stress, burnout, and the mental load — but one concept that still flies under the radar is mental bandwidth overload. It’s the slow leak of focus, energy, and emotional presence that happens when you’re juggling too many responsibilities, decisions, and distractions at once. For parents, it’s more than a buzzword. It’s a hidden drain on our health, joy, and ability to show up for ourselves and our families. The worst part? Most of us don’t even know it’s happening.
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1 month ago | 
news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis
Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.In this interview, Sir Professor Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., K.C.S.L, the 2025 Coulter Lecturer, discusses how he is addressing today’s medical challenges using future technology. Can you tell us about how you started your career in science? My career in science began when I attended Princeton University for college. I had enrolled as a chemical engineering student, though I initially knew little about the field.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis
Watershed moments in science rarely arrive with fanfare. More often, they emerge quietly—tucked away in the unlikeliest places, like the DNA of bacteria—before rippling outward to reshape entire fields. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is one such revolution. Initially a bacterial defense system against viruses, it has been repurposed into one of the most powerful tools in modern biology: a method for editing genes with unparalleled precision.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis
On the eve of 2020, the world was rocked by news of an emerging epidemic. In the coming months, as scientists scrambled for answers, pandemonium swept like waves across the borders of six continents.1Five years later, we can tell the tale of using the tools of science, we were able to turn the tide on SARS-CoV-2 and, in the process, rewrite the playbook on pandemic preparedness.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
news-medical.net | Priyom Bose |Danielle Ellis
Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.What is alpha-GPC, and where is it found? How alpha-GPC boosts acetylcholine levelsHow alpha-GPC supports brain health: Key scientific insightsWhy some countries do not approve alpha-GPC as a prescription drugReferencesFurther readingWhat is alpha-GPC, and where is it found?
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
news-medical.net | Priyom Bose |Danielle Ellis
Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Study finds significant reductions in drinks per drinking day and alcohol craving, with potential benefits for smoking reductionA recent JAMA Psychiatry study investigates the effectiveness of semaglutide in reducing alcohol consumption and craving in adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Alcohol use disorder and semaglutideEvery year, around 2.6 million deaths occur worldwide from alcohol use.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis
Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Before the pandemic, about 1 in 9 U.S. adults used dietary supplements for immune benefits, with usage varying by age and health statusResearchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently conducted a study to determine the prepandemic prevalence of dietary supplement usage for immune benefits among US residents. The study findings are published in JAMA Network Open.
