In a recent advisory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared America's firearm violence a public health crisis that requires the nation's immediate awareness and action.
Jul 9, 2024
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When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious—but smoke from the fires actually kills far more people than the flames.
Jul 8, 2024
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After her son, the family's shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional ...
Jul 5, 2024
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A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) youths experience lower rates and American Indian/Alaska ...
Jul 1, 2024
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Opioid-related drug overdoses cause 130 deaths per day in the U.S. Access to treatment and prevention programs are key to addressing the opioid crisis, as is access to overdose reversal drugs like naloxone, which has emerged ...
Jun 27, 2024
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New research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business explains how pharmaceutical companies were able to saturate the country with massive quantities of opioids, despite efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration ...
Jun 24, 2024
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UEFA EURO 2024 is about to start, with all its hopes of victory and fears of defeat. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) investigated how failure affects players' psyches and how the dreaded downward ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Between 2005 and 2020, the number of children facing simultaneous water and food insecurity in the United States more than doubled. Additionally, Black and Hispanic children were several times more likely than white children ...
Jun 7, 2024
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An Oregon-based program that monitors social media use may have helped deter more than 150 youth suicide attempts in the five years it's operated, reports a new study published online in the journal Psychiatric Services.
Jun 1, 2024
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Ambulances meant for people having a mental health crisis could help folks get the care they need with less confrontation and friction, a new study says.
May 31, 2024
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