Month: June 2022

Unequal insurance coverage is widely considered one of the major causes of the mental health crisis facing the United States. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. View original article Contributor: Knvul Sheikh

June in Miami is challenging. The heat and humidity start to rise and it marks the start of hurricane season. But June is national mango month and the trees are … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

3DBio Therapeutics, a biotech company in Queens, said it had for the first time used 3-D printing to make a body part with a patient’s own cells. View original article Contributor: Roni Caryn Rabin

Suicides among young people have been on the rise for a long time. Among 10 to 24 year olds, overall rates of deaths by suicide in the U.S. increased 57% from 2000 to 2018, according to federal data. Now, a new study published in the journal Clinical Toxicology has looked more closely at a particular … Read more

When the pandemic first began, many experts feared that even people who managed to avoid the virus would suffer from unprecedented levels of loneliness. What would happen when millions of people were told to stay at home and distance themselves from friends and loved ones? Two years of research later, experts have found that the … Read more

(Vancouver, British Columbia) — Canada’s government said Tuesday it will allow British Columbia to try a three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, seeking to stem a record number of overdose deaths by easing fear of arrest by users in need of help. The policy approved by federal officials doesn’t legalize the … Read more

Pfizer is requesting authorization for a three-shot pediatric vaccine for children younger than 5. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson

The technology used in coronavirus shots is opening a promising avenue of research in the pursuit of an HIV vaccine. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson

Another patient who had the same treatment did not survive. But the demonstration of the technique could help with other cancers. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata