Psychology & Psychiatry

Georgia expanding innovative refugee mental health program

Although they experience significantly higher rates of depression, post-traumatic stress and anxiety than their U.S.-born neighbors, refugees have largely not been able to see mental health providers. Transportation, cost, ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Flagging dementia patients for better hospital care

Cedars-Sinai investigators are using electronic health records to identify hospitalized patients likely to have dementia. The method they developed, detailed in a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Focused screening of new residents is key to fight TB in Canada

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tuberculosis (TB) caused 1.3 million deaths in 2022 and is still very much present in many countries. In Canada, where foreign-born residents bear 80 percent of the burden ...

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