Canada is grappling with a major youth mental health crisis characterized by high rates of mental illness, suicide, hospitalizations and considerable delays in access to services. These issues are exacerbated by the COVID-19 ...
Jan 28, 2021
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A new study published in Translational Behavioral Medicine shows that some measures to promote safety during the pandemic could be bolstered by one more step. The lack of physical activity, the world's fourth leading cause ...
Jan 22, 2021
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The opioid epidemic continues in this country in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Jan 14, 2021
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Many older adults are becoming increasingly isolated during the pandemic as people continue to physically distance. Families may be afraid of getting loved ones sick, seniors may sequester themselves over fear of contracting ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Since 2016, Mark Trainer has worked as a counselor for Crisis Text Line, a national nonprofit organization that provides a free mental health texting service for people in crisis. On any given day, he talks with texters about ...
Dec 29, 2020
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Pregnancy and the period after delivering a baby can be one of the riskiest times for depressive symptoms, with suicide among the leading causes of death among new moms.
Nov 18, 2020
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The United States on Tuesday registered a record 200,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, highlighting the desperate need for a vaccine after results from one medical trial fuelled optimism around the world.
Nov 10, 2020
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As COVID-19 spread around the world, it became clear that different countries were responding differently to the virus. Penn's Cristina Bicchieri, who studies social norms and how they evolve, wanted to understand how a national ...
Oct 26, 2020
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In an article published today by the New England Journal of Medicine, NYU Wagner's dean Sherry Glied, a former assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration, envisions ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Coronavirus is a public health crisis for all of society, but for the past decade, people who use drugs—especially those dependent on opioids—have been facing their own epidemic. In its annual report on drug poisoning ...
Oct 14, 2020
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