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In 415,000 New Jersey births, infants of mothers who screened positive for depression died before age one at more than three times the rate, an association steady across race, income and preterm birth.
Two small pilot studies in 18-to-25-year-olds found morning bright light on its own shifted circadian timing little, while adding a timed schedule and evening blue-blockers advanced it about 35 minutes.
A network meta-analysis of 163 trials found EPA, vitamin D and a St John's wort extract beat placebo by margins so large the researchers treat them as a warning about the evidence, not a green light.
Analysing 4,504 German twins, researchers found the pollution–wellbeing link ran mostly between families, not within twin pairs — pointing to shared circumstances as much as the air itself.
A Swiss study tracking people who switched to remote work found no measurable change across 13 health outcomes. A review of pandemic homeworking found the relationship varies so much that no consensus emerged.
Two large re-analyses of the same public datasets found the association is real, negative and very small. A third review found the association is not even consistent between the Global North and South.
The MTA trial randomised 579 children and found medication management clearly superior short-term. Its own long-term follow-up found the treatment groups no longer differed by 6 to 8 years.
WHO's ICD-11 lists burn-out, yet places it among reasons people contact health services, not among illnesses. It is defined strictly as a workplace phenomenon, which shapes who should be assessing it and how.
Two NCAA surveys nine weeks apart put the share of Division I men's basketball players receiving abuse tied to betting at 36% and 46%. The gap between them is the most informative part.
Fatal disease burden fell 10% in two decades. Non-fatal burden — the toll of living with illness rather than dying from it — rose 7% over the same period. Mental health diagnoses in young adults nearly doubled.
Twenty-three studies, mostly from the US and China, found mental health risk rising with temperature. Nowhere in the Pacific or Africa was represented.
The agency compressed review of three psychedelic therapies from a year to weeks. A first approval decision is plausible by early 2027.
PMDD is the severe, mostly psychological form of premenstrual illness, affecting about 3.6% of women in one study. For it, SSRIs are the best-evidenced treatment, with side effects that are common and dose-related.
Simtriyo works on a different neurotransmitter pathway than existing stimulants. But its own manufacturer classifies it as a CNS stimulant, so a scheduling review stands before pharmacy shelves.
Stress peaked during the fasting month and fell afterwards, but depression and anxiety stayed flat. The consistent finding across every phase was that sleep quality tracked mental health.
The UK and Rwanda reported the highest anxiety, depression, and vasomotor symptom scores; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reported the lowest. Burnout emerged as the symptom most connected to everything else.
A quasi-experimental analysis of 23 hospitals finds about 95 additional self-harm and suicide-related emergency visits a month after the law changed, alongside fewer psychiatric admissions.
A Danish registry study of 136,842 women found elevated antidepressant and anxiolytic prescribing in the decade preceding diagnosis, with psychiatric hospital contacts rising about five years before.
A cross-sectional analysis of NICE evaluations found 78 supporting studies behind 30 technologies — and consistent holes in comparators, cost of delivery and adverse-event reporting.
Using genetic variants as instruments, researchers found exercise and wellbeing lowered risk of PCOS, endometriosis and menstrual disorders, while screen time and mood swings raised it.
The first federal survey to ask about psilocybin specifically finds 2.8% past-year use, concentrated among young, white, college-educated men. People with recent depression had 37% higher odds.
A survey of 243 people reporting persistent difficulty after a psychedelic trip found that how they responded in the moment, avoiding versus accepting, predicted whether trauma symptoms followed.
Compared with a diabetes drug from another class, GLP-1 agonists were followed by fewer new diagnoses of alcohol, opioid, nicotine and other substance use disorders.
A Utah case-crossover analysis found heat stress and pollution interacting synergistically in the warm season. A Louisiana crisis-hotline study traced hot nights to sleep disruption and unmet basic needs.
The NCAA's fifth GOALS study surveyed 20,887 athletes. Sleep is up across almost every sport. Comfort talking to coaches about mental health has barely moved in a decade.
Mindfulness, yoga, exercise and positive psychology landed within a narrow band of each other. Only combining exercise with a psychological approach pulled clear, and nature-based programmes did not beat controls.
A population study covering all 15 million residents of Ontario found the rate of new ADHD medication prescriptions accelerated sharply after 2019 — and shifted decisively toward adults.
A national registry analysis found the highest burden among 20-to-29-year-olds and a notable rise among girls aged 10 to 19, with rates concentrated in the Sierra region.
Across 40 trials, self-guided apps moved panic severity modestly and barely touched fear-related cognitions. Clinician-guided versions moved both — which complicates the scalability pitch.
Across 2.48 million survey responses in 159 countries, the share of people with no one to turn to rose 13.4% between 2009 and 2024 — all of it after 2019.