Mental health is a crucial aspect of disaster response and emergency management, as individuals and communities can experience significant psychological distress and trauma during and after such events. Hazards, whether natural ...
Los Angeles County public schools are rolling out an ambitious effort to offer free mental health services to their 1.3 million K-12 students, a key test of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's sweeping, $4.7 billion program to ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Research Professor of Psychology and Human Development Bahr Weiss is helping to lead efforts to develop Vietnam's licensure criteria for clinical psychologists, and as part of his primary efforts at capacity development, ...
Dec 13, 2023
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New research has revealed unhealthy and older men are contributing to higher rates of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in rural Australia. OSA is a condition where a person repeatedly pauses breathing while asleep due to their ...
Dec 5, 2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in health care. AI can look for patterns in medical images to help diagnose disease. It can help predict who in a hospital ward might deteriorate. It can rapidly summarize ...
Nov 30, 2023
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The United Nations said Tuesday it is still possible to reach the "end of AIDS" by 2030—but only if communities and services on the ground are given the means.
Nov 28, 2023
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The needs of people with mental health problems are increasing globally, especially following the turbulence of COVID.
Nov 8, 2023
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Halloween is often frightening for loved ones who have dementia, but there are ways to keep it safe and not scary.
Oct 30, 2023
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A growing number of children and adolescents in England are seeking access to mental health services. But the demand for these services is far outstripping capacity—and in some areas of England, children are waiting more ...
Oct 26, 2023
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New research from the University of Toronto has revealed the mental health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults with peptic ulcer disease (PUD), a painful condition in which gastric sores develop in the lining of ...
Oct 19, 2023
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