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What's Hot? 03/22/24

  • 2024Mar 22

Note: Beginning April 1, 2024, you can continue to find Jim Liebelt's culture posts at:
 
https://homeword.com/culture-blog/

Trending Today on X (formerly Twitter) - 3/22/24
 1. Kendrick
2. $ROACH
3. Hazel
4. Daily Wire
5. $DOEGE
6. #FridayVibes
7. Capcom
8. Kdot
9. #WorldWaterDay
10. #fridaymorning
Source: Twitter

Trending Today on Google - 3/22/24
 1. Holy Cross women's basketball
2. March Madness
3. Kentucky basketball
4. Duquesne basketball
5. Mar
6. USA vs Jamaica
7. Road House 2024
8. Michigan State basketball
9. 3 Body Problem
10. Kansas basketball
Source: Google

Top Five on Apple Music - 3/22/24
 1. Get It Sexyy - Sexyy Red
2. CARNIVAL - ¥$, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign
3. we can't be friends (wait for your love) - Ariana Grande
4. Whatever She Wants - Bryson Tiller
5. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
Source: Apple Music

Top Box Office Movies - Weekend of 3/15/24
1. Kung Fu Panda 4
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Arthur the King
4. Imaginary
5. Cabrini
Source: Showtimes.com 

TV Shows Trending on Streaming Services - 3/22/24
 1. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV - Max
2. Shogun - Hulu
3. Apples Never Fall - peacock
4. The Gentlemen - Netflix
5. Manhunt - AppleTV+
Source: Reelgood

Trending Today on YouTube - 3/22/24
 1. Olivia Rodrigo - obsessed
2. House of the Dragon | Official Black Trailer
3. House of the Dragon | Official Green Trailer
4. Alien: Romulus | Teaser Trailer
5. skibidi toilet (part 1)
Source: YouTube

Netflix Top 5 TV Shows in the U.S. Today - 3/22/24
 1. Homicide
2. The Gentlemen
3. Physical: 100
4. Brian Simpson: Live from the Mothership
5. The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
Source: FlixPatrol

Find more culture news on HomeWord's Culture Blog, named in 2024 for the ninth consecutive year as one of the top 50 culture blogs on the planet (#19 of  50)!

Medical Costs for Kids' Mental Health Jumped 31% in 5 Years

  • 2024Mar 19

The following is excerpted from an online article posted by HealthDay.

The cost to American families of caring for a child with a mental health condition jumped by almost a third between 2017 and 2021.

It now costs an average $4,361 more per year for a U.S. family to care for a child with a mental health condition, compared to families without such children, a new study has found.

Overall, American families spent an estimated $31 billion in 2021 on child mental health services, which now make up nearly half (about 47%) of all child medical spending, the report found.

The findings “underscore the large financial burden associated with pediatric mental health conditions on the U.S. health care system,” said a team led by Theoren Loo.

The findings were published March 11 in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open.

Source: HealthDay
https://www.healthday.com/health-news/mental-health/medical-costs-for-kids-mental-health-jumped-31-in-5-years

Teen Pregnancy May Raise Risk of Early Death

  • 2024Mar 18

The following is excerpted from an online article posted by HealthDay.

Teen pregnancy can change the trajectory of one's life, but now a new study suggests it could also shorten that life.

Canadian researchers report that women who were pregnant as teenagers were more likely to die before they reached the age of 31.

“The younger the person was when they became pregnant, the greater their risk was of premature death,” study first author Dr. Joel Ray, an obstetric medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto told the New York Times. “Some people will argue that we shouldn’t be judgmental about this, but I think we’ve always known intuitively that there’s an age that is too young for pregnancy.”

The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, turned to a health insurance registry to track pregnancy outcomes among just over 2 million teenagers in Ontario, Canada. That database included all girls who were 12 between April 1991 and March 2021.

The results suggest that even after weighing confounding factors like other health issues, income and education, teens who carried pregnancies to term were more than twice as likely to suffer premature death.

While the dangers dropped somewhat among women who had terminated a pregnancy as teenagers, those women were still 40 percent more likely to die prematurely, compared with those who had not been pregnant as teens.

Exactly what cut their lives short? Women who had been pregnant as teenagers were more than twice as likely to die young of an unintentional injury, while they were twice as likely to die from a self-inflicted injury.

Source: HealthDay
https://www.healthday.com/health-news/pregnancy/teen-pregnancy-may-raise-risk-of-early-death