Psychology & Psychiatry
Teenage brains are drawn to popular social media challenges—here's how parents can get their kids to think twice
Viral social media trends started innocently enough.
May 19, 2023
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Health
As more people live longer, how can we design societies that benefit older and younger people?
The success of longevity interventions is putting countries on paths to becoming aging societies, in which the number of individuals aged 65 and older is equal to the number of people aged 15 and younger. This outcome may ...
Dec 7, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Experts assess the pandemic's toll on mental health and classroom performance
Few adults have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic unscathed. The far-reaching and ever-resurfacing virus has tested our resolve and political beliefs; it has stressed relationships and health care systems; it has jeopardized ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
One in three Canadians developed severe loneliness amidst the second wave of COVID-19
Pandemic-induced public health measures, such as social distancing and stay-at-home orders, while successful in decreasing the transmission of COVID-19, could exacerbate pre-existing mental health challenges, including loneliness, ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Medications
'If not for the Ice Bucket Challenge, we wouldn't be here': Company on the brink of FDA-approved ALS treatment
Eight years after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral across social media and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for research, a Cambridge company is on the brink of a major breakthrough for ALS patients.
Sep 26, 2022
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Cardiology
For people with heart defects, mental health support is essential to care at every age
Although many individuals born with congenital heart defects develop resilience and have a high quality of life, they may face a variety of health-related psychological and social challenges throughout their lives. More mental ...
Jul 14, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study: Family carers' voices and experiences need to be formally recognized and responded to
A Trinity study has highlighted the need for family carers' voices and experiences to be formally recognized and authentically responded to as equal key stakeholders within the health, social care and education system in ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
On preparing for the next pandemic now
Aled Edwards is of two minds about medicine's response to COVID-19.
Mar 11, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pandemic recovery for kids goes well beyond keeping schools open
The impact virtual school had on kids goes well beyond academics, say Children's National Hospital experts in a new JAMA Pediatrics editorial. From the beginning of the pandemic, new data shows that school closures for in-person ...
Jan 18, 2022
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Health
Beyond childhood: Picky eating in college students
Looking beyond the picky eating of childhood, researchers looked at this behavior in college students. Self-identified picky eaters ate significantly less fiber and vegetables and reported greater levels of social phobia ...
Oct 7, 2021
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