February 9, 2024
(New York Times) – For decades, eating disorders were thought to afflict mostly, if not exclusively, women and girls. In fact, until 2013, the loss of menstruation had long been considered an official symptom of anorexia nervosa. Over the last … Read More
February 8, 2024
(New York Times) – New York City has poured tens of millions of dollars into a program to treat severely mentally ill people on the streets and in the subways for nearly a decade without ensuring that it was operating … Read More
February 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s not just Congress. States are taking on social media’s grip on teenagers, too. Officials in New York are pushing to restrict the algorithms that power a platform’s feed, making it the latest state to attempt … Read More
February 7, 2024
(NPR) – Physicians often fear they could be shamed or penalized — or could even lose their jobs — for disclosing details about their mental health to licensing boards and employers. Now, there’s a concerted effort to reduce that stigma. … Read More
February 7, 2024
(Tribune News via MSN) – San Mateo County recently became the first county in the country to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to approve a resolution introduced by Supervisor … Read More
February 6, 2024
(KFF Health News) – States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans. California is going the … Read More
February 5, 2024
(New York Times) – More younger Americans are shunning alcohol while embracing cannabis, ketamine and psychedelics, shaking up the field of addiction medicine. Not long ago, sobriety was broadly understood to mean abstaining from all intoxicating substances, and the term … Read More
February 2, 2024
(The Telegraph via MSN) – Last Saturday, an autistic Dutch woman died at home by assisted suicide, with her parents and best friend by her side. Her passing is significant to those far beyond her circle or who followed her … Read More
February 2, 2024
(Axios) – Pandemic-era policies that made it easier for patients to receive opioid addiction treatment will continue permanently, the Biden administration announced this week. Why it matters: The changes mark the first time in 20 years the federal government has … Read More
February 2, 2024
(ABC News) – But now, some 988 workers such as Mosby — who were already in significant shortage — say they’re burning out and leaving the job. Data obtained by ABC News found that, in some states such as Oklahoma … Read More
February 2, 2024
(Plough) – The internist William Osler, a minister’s son who transferred his faith from the church to the hospital, developed the transformative experience of medical training in the late nineteenth century. Osler famously advised medical students that “the way of … Read More
February 1, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – Americans are terribly lonely, a new poll reveals. Among U.S. adults, about one in three said they feel lonely at least once a week. Worse, one in 10 Americans say they feel lonely every day, results show. … Read More
February 1, 2024
(Slate) – After I had had several therapy sessions and practiced a lot of self-care, the guilt, panic attacks, and intrusive images around Alice’s death lessened. It’s been over a decade since that terrible day. But healing isn’t linear. On … Read More
January 31, 2024
(Associated Press) – Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. (Read More)
January 30, 2024
(New York Times) – Canada is postponing a plan to offer people suffering from mental illnesses the option of a medically assisted death, two cabinet ministers said on Monday. The announcement by Mark Holland, the health minister, and Arif Virani, … Read More
January 30, 2024
(NPR) – While it’s legal for doctors to prescribe ketamine, the FDA hasn’t approved it for mental health treatment, which means that individual practitioners develop their own treatment protocols. The result is wide variability among providers, with some favoring gradual, … Read More
January 29, 2024
(NPR) – The diet’s entrance into the mainstream has fed plenty of debate about its merits, with some medical groups raising concerns. Yet, there’s also growing attention — and clinical trials underway — on its potential, not only for obesity … Read More
January 29, 2024
(Axios) – Some of America’s most challenging behavioral health care problems include a key disadvantage: They’re not very profitable to treat. Why it matters: Serious mental illness and addiction have a profound effect on families and communities, but their complexity … Read More
January 29, 2024
(New York Times) – Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make? As affordable apartments all but vanished in American cities, a whole tier of people with disabling mental … Read More
January 26, 2024
(Longreads) – The weird part is no one questioned hypnotizing a bunch of teenagers. They still don’t. Every year, teens are brought on stage and hypnotized in front of their peers. My time came when I was 17 years old. … Read More
January 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The problem is that when you start taking a benzo, the brain reduces its natural output of GABA, which means that tapering off the medication can result in even worse symptoms of anxiety, along with extremely … Read More
January 23, 2024
(New York Times) – In the wake of the third death, the university set up an emergency task force with a mandate to determine the possible causes of extreme student distress. Their job was to recommend data-backed interventions to the … Read More
January 22, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The suicide rate for Hispanic people in the United States has increased significantly over the past decade. The trend has community leaders worried: Even elementary school-aged Hispanic children have tried to harm themselves or expressed suicidal … Read More
January 18, 2024
(Longreads) – Things are changing fast in the field of obesity, and a new generation of children are facing treatment choices that their parents never had. But are more options always better? It’s a question Lisa Miller takes great pains … Read More
January 16, 2024
(The Free Press) – Since 2020, British Columbia has made a point of providing a “safer supply” of fentanyl to addicts—and, more recently, it has loosened the rules, making it easier for doctors and nurses to prescribe the highly addictive … Read More
