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Antidepressants Can Rewire Your Mind to the Point of Committing Violent Crimes

Mercola

Mental health in America is slowly deteriorating. According to a report from TIME, only 31% of adults rated their mental health as "excellent" in 2022, which went down from 43% two decades prior. Among females aged 12 to 17, the rate surged by 129.6%. 1 Worse, even the youth has been captured by Big Pharma.

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Professor Receives $29M NIH Grant to Study Dementia Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment

BU School of Public Health Blog

September 27, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Up to 45 percent of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) cases could be prevented by modifiable risk factors, but current research is limited to observational studies that make it difficult to establish definitive causes.

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Reimagining public health as well-being

Monday Morning

IN BRIEF: Today, I am writing about the importance of thinking about public health in terms of well-being, which includes physical, mental, spiritual health and the opportunity for every person to thrive. With attention to mental and physical health, well-being is a more comprehensive word. and more than 5.2

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Good intentions but the right approach? The case of ACEs

Public Healthy

These include the direct impact of suffering abuse or neglect, or the indirect effects of living in a household affected by domestic violence, substance misuse or mental illness. We’re forced to choose between helping those in most pressing need or incrementally improving population health. In that situation, the former always wins.

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BHM Interview Monet Farr Cole on Navigating Loss, Emotional Honesty and Creating a Life You Love

Black Health Matters

Corynne Corbett ( 00:15 ): I’m Corynne Corbett, editorial director from Black Health Matters. And it’s unfortunate because I think a lot of things happen when we’re stuck, our health starts to suffer not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. So, our brain health is even.

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LISTEN: Pradnya Garud on the role of unions in climate justice

Environmental Health News

I don't know if folks who aren't terribly familiar with that, you know, I don't know a lot about it, but I'd like to hear about that and maybe how it opened your eyes, at an early age, to environmental injustice. So broadly speaking, what does an environmental health data equity strategist do? Pradnya Garud Yeah, for sure.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2