Health

A warning issued by the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, on Tuesday provided guidance about an issue that has been front of mind for American parents for years: the negative...

The NewsThe United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, issued a public advisory on Tuesday warning of the risks of social media use to young people. In a 19-page report, Dr....

When the health workers arrived at Upendo Primary School on the edge of the Tanzanian capital, they instructed girls who would turn 14 this year to line up to get a shot....

On May 31st, a significant seminar titled "Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012): 10 Years Since Her Passing" will take place at the MAGI headquarters in San Felice del Benaco, Italy (https://magisnat.com/). Our institution is...

Researchers have for the first time recorded the brain’s firing patterns while a person is feeling chronic pain, paving the way for implanted devices to one day predict pain signals or even...

Years after her diagnosis, and by then on the faculty of Johns Hopkins, she decided to tell the story of her manic depression. It was a difficult decision, in part because “I...

When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem.“All that chatter that is in my head, everything that I’ve been feeling, I...

What used to seem like an admission of defeat became a source of strength.

In the second part of the experiment, involving 450 new subjects, the researchers gave each participant 72 descriptions of emotional songs, which expressed feelings including “contempt,” “narcissism,” “inspiration” and “lustfulness.” For comparison,...

Dr. S and I tried to work through the conflict. For me, she knew, dependency implied obligation and control — so I wouldn’t let her, or let myself, be close. I didn’t...