The common routine of sitting at work all day, then plopping down on the couch all evening horrify experts like Keith Diaz, an assistant professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University.
The findings highlight “another example of the discrimination and inequities we see ... even in affluent societies,” said Mary Rosser, director of Integrated Women’s Health at NYP/Columbia.
The trend seen in the United States is also seen in much of the developed world, said Dr. John Rowe, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
At the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician's Ceremony, 153 members of the VP&S Class of 2021 marked the start of their patient-centered training in hospital and ambulatory settings.
Like what the AIDS activists sought in the 80s and 90s, an “opioid movement” may be required for treatments to become acceptable to—and demanded by—communities throughout the United States.