Pediatrics
Excessive social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated adolescent mental health challenges
How does time spent online, and especially social media, affect the brains and behaviors of children and youth?
Jan 21, 2024
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News tagged with world challenges
Psychology & Psychiatry
Seven things you should know about job burnout
We hear a lot about work-related burnout these days, especially as many workers continue to deal with fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe it's the blurring of lines between home and work life. Or maybe it's the stress ...
Jan 9, 2024
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Health
Five questions for African countries that want to build climate-resilient health systems
Every day seems to bring a new headline about a devastating climate event. African countries aren't spared. A "rain bomb" in South Africa. Flooding in Nigeria. Cyclones battering Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Madagascar. ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Need a mental health day but worried about admitting it? You're not alone
There are days when it's hard to face work, even when you aren't physically sick. Should you take a day off for your mental health? If you do, should you be honest about it when informing your manager?
Jun 12, 2023
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Medical research
Understanding the expanded role of clinical ethicists
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many troubling ethical issues to the frontlines of clinical care, creating significant distress for clinicians, patients, and families. Behind the scenes, clinical ethicists managed those issues ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US to declare health emergency over monkeypox outbreak
The U.S. will declare a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the monkeypoxoutbreak that has infected more than 6,600 Americans, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Aug 4, 2022
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Medical research
Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials present advantages, challenges compared to other research methods
The stepped wedge cluster randomized trial (SW-CRT) is a research methodology that has been growing in popularity, particularly for pragmatic implementation and dissemination trials. SW-CRTs can have advantages over parallel ...
May 24, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Texting for wellness: Using digital mental health tools for support in another COVID-19 winter
The Omicron variant may be testing your resolve to begin 2022 with a commitment to wellness. Certainly, it seems there is a shared sense of frustration and fatigue across the country in the face of yet another pandemic surge. ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Research harnesses AI to fight breast cancer
Breast cancer has recently overtaken lung cancer to become the most common cancer globally, according to the World Health Organization. Advancing the fight against breast cancer, the BreastPathQ Challenge was launched at ...
May 10, 2021
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Vaccination
Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risks
Researchers are considering using "human challenge studies" to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine research and development. This would involve giving an experimental vaccine to healthy volunteers, then deliberately exposing them ...
Oct 13, 2020
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