Addiction

An age of anxiety and drug use in COVID-19

UNSW's Dr. George Dertadian says the anxieties, stresses and strains people are dealing with in the pandemic could be influencing the use of drugs in society.

Psychology & Psychiatry

'Sticks and stones...' but words can indeed hurt you, study finds

Words can hurt or help a person's psychological well-being, according to a new study from the University of California, Irvine. Researchers found that the effects of negative and positive political rhetoric about immigration ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO chief to 'push until we get the answer' on Covid origins

The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the COVID-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

World may be tired, but virus 'not tired of us': WHO chief

The World Health Organization's chief called Monday on everyone to keep fighting COVID-19, warning that while we may be sick of battling the pandemic, the virus is "not tired of us".