988, la nueva Línea Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio en EE. UU.
La nueva línea nacional de atención al suicida en EE. UU., que ha ampliado su enfoque para ayudar a quienes llaman distintas emergencias de salud mental, se lanza el 16 de julio.
La nueva línea nacional de atención al suicida en EE. UU., que ha ampliado su enfoque para ayudar a quienes llaman distintas emergencias de salud mental, se lanza el 16 de julio.
Nearly half of the participants of a recent study who were menstruating regularly at the time of the survey reported heavier bleeding during their periods after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. Others who did not typically menstruate — including transgender men, people on long-acting contraceptives, and post-menopausal women — also experienced unusual bleeding. The new study…
As the monkeypox outbreak grows in the United States, demand for the vaccine is outstripping the nation’s supply, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news briefing on Friday. “We don’t yet have all the vaccine that we would like in this moment,” she said. When the…
The emergence of highly contagious Omicron subvariants this spring in the United States appeared to reduce the protection offered by vaccines against Covid hospitalizations, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. But first and second booster shots helped to shore up people’s defenses, the agency found. The additional shots raised…
Americans in distress have a new number to dial for help — 988, a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline that is being billed as the 911 of mental health. The number, set to go live on Saturday and backed by more than $400 million in federal funding, is intended to meet a rising tide of…
In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner party in Berkeley, Calif. Among his fellow diners was a prominent developmental psychiatrist, in her 60s, who spoke at some length about a recent LSD trip. This pricked up Pollan’s ears. His first thought, as he shared during…
Si sientes que estás cayendo en la desesperanza por la situación mundial, existen varias soluciones. Acá reunimos algunas estrategias para mantener los pies en la tierra, sin perder la cabeza.
Millions of children around the world, most of them in the poorest countries, missed some or all of their childhood vaccinations over the past two years because of a combination of conflicts, climate emergencies, misinformation campaigns, pandemic lockdowns and Covid vaccination efforts that diverted resources, according to a new analysis from Unicef, the United Nations…
This ‘woman’s disease’ doesn’t get a lot of research funding, but the medical establishment has made strides in developing new drugs and devices to combat migraine over the last five years.
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