Experts call for radical global action to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, as this is often "worse than the condition itself." The new "Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination ...
Oct 10, 2022
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In the game Guess What?, created by Stanford researchers, an adult caregiver holds a smartphone to his or her forehead and asks a child to mimic an image displayed on the screen. It might be a monkey, a soccer player, or ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Does eye contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team at the University of Würzburg's Institute of Psychology has recently shown. Why not? Because context matters.
Sep 19, 2022
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A combination of seven healthy lifestyle habits including sleeping seven to nine hours daily, exercising regularly and having frequent social contact was associated with a lower risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes, ...
Sep 14, 2022
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During the pandemic, on days that adults felt particularly lonely or when lockdown restrictions were more limiting, they used more drugs (other than cannabis), a new study suggests. When people's loneliness was severe, they ...
Aug 26, 2022
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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 World Health Organization (WHO) has decided not to declare monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. This may change in the future.
Jun 27, 2022
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Social isolation is linked to lower brain volume in areas related to cognition and a higher risk of dementia, according to research published in the June 8, 2022, online issue of Neurology. The study found that social isolation ...
Jun 8, 2022
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The first case of monkeypox in the current outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 7. The person in question had recently returned to the U.K. from Nigeria, where they are believed to have contracted ...
May 23, 2022
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Shielding those vulnerable to COVID-19, while allowing the virus to spread, largely unmitigated, through the rest of the population, would have failed according to a new modeling paper published today in PLOS Global Public ...
Apr 26, 2022
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