Dealing With The Loneliness Epidemic: ‘Tea With Strangers’ Group Is Latest Experiment To Bring People Together

To fight isolation, a health problem that a former surgeon general said can be as debilitating as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, several groups are working to create in-person connections. A group started by one former lonely heart in San Francisco invites strangers to talk over tea and has caught on in more than a dozen other cities. Public health news also focuses on: higher rates of memory loss reported among LGBTQ Americans; winners and fairness issues; sleep-tracking devices; drugs that bring on memory loss in older adults; Netflix's decision to re-edit "13 Reasons Why"; critics of "Neuralink'; coping with the heat wave; a new way to diagnose pancreatic cancer; why STI's are more common; mosquitoes; ticks in unsightly places; and more.

from Kaiser Health News https://ift.tt/2XLEXbg