April 17, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Donald Warne, a physician who is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, can rattle off the most common medical conditions and accidents killing Native Americans. … Read More
April 17, 2024
(NPR) – One of the most difficult and expensive questions that a society faces is how to care for those who cannot care for themselves, and how to pay for it. Over the last century, the United States has radically … Read More
April 16, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Active religious practice, such as going to churches, synagogues and mosques, is linked to mental well-being, according to a growing body of research. One possible explanation for the link, researchers and clergy say, is that places … Read More
April 15, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Out of all of the many reactions I had — sadness, surprise, worry — what I found myself wishing for most was that she could just shut the lens down and no longer have the attention of … Read More
April 15, 2024
(STAT News) – Boys aren’t the only people who develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It also affects girls and young women and adults of both genders. Yet girls and women with ADHD are chronically underdiagnosed and undertreated. Individuals with this condition … Read More
April 11, 2024
(Axios) – Middle-aged Black and Native Americans have higher death rates from alcoholic liver disease, overdoses and suicide than white Americans, dispelling longstanding narratives about what are collectively referred to as “deaths of despair.” Why it matters: New research in … Read More
April 11, 2024
(Aeon) – My father had become professionally involved with the Tavistock, which in the 1980s was a hotbed of Kleinian analysts. In 1986, he signed me up with O’Shaughnessy, and I began what proved to be three years of private … Read More
April 10, 2024
(STAT News) – Compounding the problem is the average delay of 11 years between the onset of a mental health condition and its diagnosis. Think about it: a child exhibiting signs of mental health challenges at age 6 may not … Read More
April 10, 2024
(New York Times) – England’s move is part of a broader shift in northern Europe, where health officials have been concerned by soaring demand for adolescent gender treatments in recent years. Many patients also have mental health conditions that make … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Nature) – Wamaitha and Burrows are part of a growing chorus of people speaking up about the impacts of climate change on mental health. Climate change is exacerbating mental disorders, which already affect almost one billion people and are among … Read More
April 9, 2024
(Reuters) – A European Medicines Agency committee will this week hold a meeting related to its probe into reports of suicidal thoughts after taking diabetes and weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic, an agenda showed on Monday. The … Read More
April 9, 2024
(The Guardian) – Now some specialists believe that the coexistence of both conditions is not just possible, but frequent. One study by researchers at Duke University found that up to half of people diagnosed as autistic also exhibit ADHD symptoms, … Read More
April 9, 2024
(NBC News) – In state after state, centers for problem gambling are noticing an alarming rise in calls to their helplines. The circumstances reported are also getting more severe, according to the directors of five problem gambling centers, a gambling … Read More
April 8, 2024
(STAT News) – Anyone can now walk into a pharmacy in the United States and buy oral contraceptives over the counter without a prescription, thanks to the FDA’s approval of norgestrel (Opill). This change reflects the drug’s safety and the … Read More
April 5, 2024
(Axios) – Understanding of psychiatric disorders is catching up to a reality all too familiar to the doctors who treat patients: one-size-fits-all treatments for complex conditions like depression or bipolar disorder are coming up short. Why it matters: As new … Read More
April 5, 2024
(STAT News) – Prozac prescriptions for dogs are on the rise, veterinarians across the country acknowledge, along with a myriad of cheaper generic mood stabilizers sold for humans but applied to pets’ separation anxiety, socialization fears, biting habits, or other … Read More
April 3, 2024
(Nature) – Worldwide, around one-quarter of adults feel very or fairly lonely, according to a 2023 poll conducted by the social-media firm Meta, the polling company Gallup and a group of academic advisers. That same year, the World Health Organization … Read More
April 3, 2024
(New York Times) – Anxious ahead of a big job interview? Worried about giving a speech? First date nerves? The solution, some digital start-ups suggest, is a beta blocker, a type of medication that can slow heart rate and lower … Read More
April 3, 2024
(Axios) – Shortages of commonly prescribed drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have stretched on for nearly 18 months, with no clear end in sight for many Americans who’ve found it difficult if not impossible to get the treatments. Why … Read More
April 1, 2024
(NPR) – Imagine it’s a crisp clear winter day, and you’re skiing down a mountain, feeling exhilarated. All of a sudden, you lose control of your skis. You’re hurtling down towards the base of the slope, and all you can … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Mental-health urgent-care sites are proliferating across the U.S. to treat the spiraling numbers of children and adults who need mental-health care and ease a shortage of therapists that has caused many people to wait months for … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Kazen, a jovial 61-year-old, is a pioneer in this kind of court-supervised treatment, which is designed to help people with the most severe mental illnesses who have already been jailed or treated in emergency rooms several … Read More
April 1, 2024
(The Free Press) – Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious? Theo Boer, a healthcare ethics professor at Protestant Theological University in Groningen, served for a … Read More
March 27, 2024
(STAT News) – The lobby of this addiction clinic is unremarkable, really, except for the network of metal chutes and tubes that hug the walls as they snake downward from a pharmacy on the upper floors. Every few minutes, a … Read More
March 26, 2024
(LBC) – The family of British riding star Caroline March have shared a final letter from the star revealing she chose to end her life aged 31 using assisted suicide following a horror spinal cord injury. The British rider suffered … Read More
