Psychology & Psychiatry
Rate of kids hospitalized in mental health crisis keeps rising
Children with mental health problems are flooding America's hospitals.
Mar 28, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression is too often deemed 'hard to treat' when medication falls short
A plumber who shows up to fix a leaking toilet with a single tool is not likely to succeed. The same is true if a mental health professional offers only one approach for a complex problem like depression.
Mar 15, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Health researchers launch a long COVID resource for patients and health care professionals
The first resource of its kind to support those living with long COVID and the health care professionals involved in their care has been launched by experts from the University of Stirling.
Mar 14, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Living well, and dying well, with schizophrenia
A University of Alberta nursing researcher is working to change the way people with schizophrenia and other chronic mental health conditions in Canada are cared for at the end of their lives.
Feb 22, 2023
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Pediatrics
How do parents decide if they should vaccinate their kids against SARS-CoV-2?
For parents, the decision to vaccinate their kids against SARS-CoV-2 is complex, influenced by scientific evidence, political and social pressures, and views about individual versus collective benefits of vaccination, according ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Surgery
Child abuse reports by medical staff linked to children's race, study finds
Black children are over-reported as suspected victims of child abuse when they have traumatic injuries, even after accounting for poverty, according to new research from the Stanford School of Medicine.
Feb 7, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Distinct gender norms in descriptions of chronic pain affect medical treatment, says researcher
Sensitive women and stoical men are the prevalent images of people in chronic pain. Unwarranted differences in medical treatment may result, as a University of Gothenburg doctoral thesis emphasizes.
Feb 6, 2023
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Medications
Medication abortion TikTok videos tend to be accurate and reliable, study finds
Popular TikTok videos that highlight ways to obtain a medication abortion are typically informative and useful, according to a study led by Duke Health researchers.
Feb 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Supporting a child with long COVID: Tips from parents of children living with the condition
Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID following even a mild infection with the ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Cardiology
European cardiologists call for urgent action to prevent medical device shortages
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), which represents more than 100,000 health care professionals, today urges EU health ministers to prevent a shortfall of essential medical devices for cardiovascular patients.
Dec 7, 2022
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