We're to keep a physical distance to reduce the risk of infection, but it's now on an emotional level that we need to get closer," says Danuta Wasserman, director of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention ...
Apr 14, 2020
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The economic crisis of 2008-10, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths—including many considered treatable—within the Organization for Economic ...
May 25, 2016
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In addition to the public health crisis that is the COVID-19 pandemic, the turmoil of the past two years has caused widespread challenges to mental health and well-being. The picture of its long-term consequences—including ...
Feb 15, 2022
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"Show me the bodies!" someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
Mar 6, 2019
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A new study offers a novel look at the scope of the youth mental health crisis across the United States—in 2019-2020, more than 1 in 10 kids who were brought to the hospital by ambulance had a behavioral health emergency. ...
Nov 16, 2023
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For all the attention paid to the short and long-term physical effects of COVID-19, the disease has serious mental health consequences, too.
Apr 13, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Google, Facebook, and Pinterest need to take more action against the growing threat to children posed by online misinformation about vaccines, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a letter sent to the ...
Mar 6, 2019
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The mayor of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases, allowing officials to cut through red tape and fight a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that ...
Jul 29, 2022
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The COVID-19 catastrophe in India has resulted in more than 30 million people infected with the virus and nearly 400,000 deaths, though experts are concerned that the figures most likely are much higher. Meanwhile, another ...
Jul 1, 2021
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Doctors and other health professionals must use their unique and privileged position in society to take action on the climate crisis, say The BMJ editors and environmental health experts today.
Oct 6, 2021
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