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NC moves to end police involvement in transporting mental health patients

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf When someone is having a mental health crisis whether theyre thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, mostly because there are few places for them to go. Its a practice that many patients find traumatizing.

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Shell’s petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania still hasn’t spurred economic development: Report

Environmental Health News

This report updates two similar analyses published by the same group in 2021 and 2023, with all three reports relying on data from government agencies including the U.S. These pollutants are linked to health effects including asthma, heart disease, mental health symptoms, poor birth outcomes, endocrine disruption and cancer.

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Psychedelics and Mental Health

Exploring Health

Improving Mental Health with Supervised Administration of Psychedelics Psychedelics could be the key to treating mental heath disorders. This mental illness causes a constant feeling of sadness and a lack of motivation. Jakes story highlights a common challenge in mental health care. Im a doctor, right?

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Wealth disparities impact telehealth access for mental health care

News Medical Health Sciences

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that mental health visits for patients with depression from high-wealth neighborhoods in Maryland were significantly more likely to happen via telehealth compared to patients with depression from low-wealth neighborhoods in Maryland from mid-2021 through mid-2024. (..)

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Long-Covid Patients Are Frustrated That Federal Research Hasn’t Found New Treatments

KFF Health News

This disappoints and angers the patient community, who say the National Institutes of Health should focus on ways to stop their suffering instead of simply trying to understand why they’re suffering. She warns it’s going to take a lot more money to help people like Hayes regain some degree of health.“There

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The Pivot with Dr. Hongtu Zhu

UNC Epidemiology Blog

Hongtu Zhu bridges big data and health to improve our understanding of the brain. What’s your role in public health? My work centers on integrating advanced statistical methods, artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics into health research. What brought you to public health?

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News Scan for Oct 12, 2021

University of Minnesota CIDRAP

News Scan for Oct 12, 2021 lmclerno_91236 Tue, 10/12/2021 - 13:37 Bullet points Mental health and COVID-19 Politics and COVID public health policies Avian flu outbreaks in 2 nations Body Mental health worsened amid pandemic, especially in women, young adults An estimated 53.2 increase). "The