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When and how was walking invented?

When and how was walking invented? – Rayssa, 11, Newark, New Jersey. This is an important question as many anthropologists view two-leggedness – that is, walking on two legs – as one of the defining characteristics of “hominins” or modern humans and their ancestors. It is difficult to give a simple answer, however, since two-leggedness […]

HealthyWomen is a proud host of the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Justice Project (CVEEP)

The COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project (CVEEP) was founded in December 2020 by the Alliance for Aging Research, HealthyWomen, and the National Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc. The project consists of more than 200 leading organizations that include patients, providers, employers and public health organizations. This group has convened a dialogue between […]

Covid kills rural Americans twice as often as city dwellers

By Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News Rural Americans are more than twice as likely to die from Covid as their urban counterparts – a gap health experts say is likely to widen as access to health care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated . During the […]