Depression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds of depressed youth don't receive any mental health care at all. Of those who do, a significant proportion rely on antidepressant medications.
Feb 16, 2022
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The African continent is on course to reach its target of vaccinating at least 70% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on ...
Jan 27, 2022
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The Pan American Health Organization said Wednesday it expects omicron to become the predominant coronavirus variant in the Americas in the coming weeks, where confirmed cases have reached record levels.
Jan 13, 2022
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Childhood asthma is a common cause of emergency department visits, hospital admissions and deaths, especially among boys. A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine researchers has determined ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Americans 65 years and older have much better hearing than their counterparts nearly a decade ago, according to a recent study published in Aging and Health Research.
Dec 27, 2021
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The U.S. infant mortality rate continued its downward trend in 2019, but Black babies still died twice as often as white babies, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released this week.
Dec 13, 2021
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New modeling from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) suggests the Omicron variant has the potential to cause a wave of transmission in England that could lead to higher levels of cases and hospitalisations ...
Dec 13, 2021
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The omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout Great Britain and is likely to become the dominant form of the disease across the country by the middle of this month, the U.K. Health Security Agency said Friday.
Dec 10, 2021
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Across Australia, there were 633 new diagnoses of HIV in 2020, a decline of 30 percent since 2019, according to new data released today on World AIDS Day by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney.
Dec 1, 2021
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A depression medicine has climbed the list and two antibiotics have dropped in the top 10 prescribed medicines lists of 2020–21. In the December edition of Australian Prescriber, the top 10 list of medicines prescribed ...
Nov 30, 2021
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