Karen Snyder Duke

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Susanne MacGregor |Karen Snyder Duke |Aileen O’Gorman

No! It is not time to retire the term ‘deaths of despair’ [1]. The concept is needed more than ever today in countries where drug-related deaths remain at high levels. It draws attention to the need for comprehensive public health and social policies to reverse the damaging upstream conditions, which form the context for these deaths. It may be that the idea has been misappropriated and is unhelpful in a clinical context.

1 month ago | popsugar.com | Karen Snyder Duke

Self-carePoliticsGetty | Yuichiro Chino; sbayramGetty | Yuichiro Chino; sbayramThe stock market had barely groaned its first warnings of a potential recession when my phone buzzed. It was my closest friend from college, sharing a TikTok — the 2025 equivalent of sending a sympathy card or a "thinking of you.""Millennials bringing out the Recession Pop Playlist after seeing the stock market crash," the video read, as a creator danced to the 2009 hit "Down" by Jay Sean.

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Karen Snyder Duke |Lynn Callister |Brigham Young

Keywordschildbirth, HIV, South African women, birthingAbstractThe birthing time is often one of great joy and anticipation, and is a significant juncture in any woman’s life. What is said and done for a woman during this intense time period can be critical in either improving a woman’s experience and ability to mother, or destroying it.

Jul 31, 2024 | popsugar.com.au | Karen Snyder Duke

If Olympic-level gymnastics wasn’t impressive enough already, wait until you learn how narrow the balance beam really is. When you watch athletes competing on the beam at the Paris Olympics, know that the platform they’re jumping and flipping on is only 10 centimeters wide (or roughly four inches). For reference, that’s smaller (!!) than an iPhone turned to landscape mode, and only a little wider than the average credit card.

Jul 29, 2024 | popsugar.com.au | Amanda Prahl |Karen Snyder Duke |Mirel Zaman

After a surprisingly early elimination at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, the US women’s national soccer team (USWNT) came to the Paris Olympics with their eye on redemption. And so far, that goal looks like it’s within reach, with the women’s soccer team demonstrating what coach Emma Hayes referred to as a “high-level game,” per USAToday. Of course, the USWNT has another goal too – the same goal as everyone who’s at the Olympics: to medal.