Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts
Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute overdose reversal drugs on the streets of Chicago. They hold training sessions ...
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Women with Postpartum Depression Experienced Brain Changes During Pregnancy, Study Finds
Postpartum depression affects about one in every seven women who give birth, but little is known about what happens in ...
F.D.A. Expands Access to Clozapine, a Key Treatment for Schizophrenia
The Food and Drug Administration has taken a crucial step toward expanding access to the antipsychotic medication clozapine, the only ...
Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
The nation’s largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots “masquerading” as therapists, but programmed to ...
The Teacher in Room 1214
It was 45 seconds too late, but the teacher had a plan.A gunman had just barraged her classroom with an ...
After Abortion Bans, Infant Mortality and Births Increased, Research Finds
Infant mortality increased along with births in most states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme ...
Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne?
In early February 2020, China locked down more than 50 million people, hoping to hinder the spread of a new ...
For Children in Rural Mozambique, the Future Comes Into Focus
Over the past year, Muanema Fakira noticed something odd about the eyes of her 1-year-old daughter Sumaya. Her left eye ...
People With A.D.H.D. Are Likely to Die Significantly Earlier Than Their Peers, Study Finds
A study of more than 30,000 British adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., found that, on average, ...
Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’
Though Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of recovery farms may be novel, the concept stretches back almost a century. In 1935, the ...
Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs
That would slow the growth of the government’s spending on obesity drugs even as more people on Medicare started using ...
Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are Paying More.
Maricruz Salgado was bringing her diabetes under control. Thanks to a federal program that allowed health clinics that serve poor ...
Online Therapy Boom Has Mainly Benefited Privileged Groups, Studies Find
The number of Americans receiving psychotherapy increased by 30 percent during the pandemic, as virtual sessions replaced in-person appointments — ...
Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Coming Decades, Researchers Say
The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years ...
Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes
When Stephane Castel first met with a group of Māori people and other Pacific Islanders in New Zealand to talk ...
What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China
Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of ...
Paxlovid Improved Long Covid Symptoms in Some Patients, Researchers Report
Can Paxlovid treat long Covid? A new report suggests it might help some patients, but which patients might benefit remains ...
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