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Redefining heart disease risk, prevention and management
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Health experts are redefining cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, prevention and management, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory published today in the journal Circulation.…
Can chatbots be therapists? Only if you want them to be
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A manager at artificial intelligence firm OpenAI caused consternation recently by writing that she just had “a quite emotional, personal conversation” with her firm’s viral chatbot…
Running Parallels Antidepressants in Reducing Depression
Summary: Researchers offered 141 patients with anxiety and/or depression a choice between 16 weeks of SSRIs (antidepressants) or group running therapy, revealing both options approximately equally benefited mental health. However,…
Marble head of Alexander the Great uncovered at Prusias ad Hypium |
Archaeologists have uncovered a marble head of Alexander the Great during excavations in the ruins of Prusias ad Hypium, located in the Düzce Province of Turkey. Prusias ad Hypium was…
Big rise seen in gun deaths, overdoses among U.S. kids
America’s kids are safer now than a decade ago when it comes to many types of injury, with two glaring exceptions: drugs and guns. That’s the crux of a new…
A decade of data describes nationwide youth mental health crisis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Tanner Bommersbach, M.D., and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed national records of pediatric emergency department visits, they provided essential data to describe the…
More schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last year, a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at Central High School in Pueblo, Colorado. When Jessica Foster, the school district’s lead…
Bedbugs force closure of seven schools in France: minister
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain France has been forced to shut seven schools over growing concerns over an infestation of bedbugs, Education Minister Gabriel Attal said Friday. “Bedbugs were detected at…
New study shows decreasing spinal immobilization treatment in pre-hospital settings
Time series of prehospital SI/SMR. Raw data plotted by month, 2009–2020. Seasonal effect averaged for each month over the study period, showing the monthly maximum (1.4, July) and minimum (−1.6,…
