April 14, 2021
(Associated Press) – Rampant loneliness existed long before COVID-19, and experts believe it’s now worse. Evidence suggests it can damage health and shorten lives as much as obesity and smoking. In addition to psychological distress, some studies suggest loneliness may … Read More
April 9, 2021
(The Verge) – Issues related to suicide and self-harm touch nearly every digital platform in some way. The internet is increasingly where people search, discuss, and seek support for mental health issues. But according to new research from the Stanford … Read More
April 9, 2021
(Kaiser Health News) – Experts don’t yet know what causes long covid or why some people have persistent symptoms while others recover in weeks or even days. They also don’t know just how long the condition — referred to formally … Read More
April 8, 2021
(Medscape) – COVID-19 survivors face a sharply elevated risk of developing psychiatric or neurologic disorders in the six months after they contract the virus — a danger that mounts with symptom severity, new research shows. In what is purported to … Read More
April 7, 2021
(STAT News) – Six months after being diagnosed with Covid-19, 1 in 3 patients also had experienced a psychiatric or neurological illness, mostly mood disorders but also strokes or dementia, a large new study shows. About 1 in 8 of … Read More
April 7, 2021
(Medscape) – As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States will likely face a tsunami of death and disability from common chronic diseases that will affect society for decades, Robert Califf, MD, former commissioner of the US Food … Read More
April 6, 2021
(UPI) – Overdose deaths resulting from a dangerous combination of cocaine and opioids are outpacing fatalities linked to cocaine abuse alone, a new U.S. government report warns. “Much of the increase in the rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine … Read More
April 6, 2021
Clinical Ethics (vol. 15, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Surrogate Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients: Proposing a Harm Reduction Interpretation of the Best Interest Standard” by Phoebe Friesen and Nada Gligorov “Counting the Cost … Read More
April 5, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 6, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Half-Century of Progress in Health: The National Academy of Medicine at 50: The NAM and the Quality of Health Care … Read More
April 2, 2021
(STAT News) – Hospital-based psychologists are sorely undervalued, not just for the care they provide their patients and the insights they offer their clinician colleagues, but for the substantial savings they can provide their institutions. Under the current fee-for-service model … Read More
