The moral panic around video games is stuck with rock music and entertainment-induced panics like those on TV. But the evidence is not there. A series of studies beginning inRead More
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Ad tracking tool sends patients’ health information to Facebook: Report
Hospitals allegedly post patients’ private information to Facebook, potentially sharing their health information with the social network via an ad tracker. According to a study by The Markup and STAT,Read More
Monkeypox Outbreak Poses ‘Real Risk’ to Public Health, WHO Official
GENEVA — The World Health Organization’s senior official in Europe on Wednesday called for urgent action by authorities and civic groups to control the rapidly increasing cases of monkeypox, whichRead More
Effects of Extreme Temperature on Health
When W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, began investigating how extreme heat harms humans, his research focused on workers at the disaster-affected Three Mile Island nuclearRead More
New Abortion Bans: Almost No Exceptions for Rape, Incest or Health
But the group supports exceptions for life-saving abortions. “This is not an act of abortion,” she said, “the purpose of abortion is not to end life, to intervene to saveRead More
Reactions on High School Clinic Reveal Deep Divorces on Mental Health
On January evening, visitors looked out of their Zoom screens with cheerful smiles when the inspector introduced staff from the Generations Family Health Center, the nonprofit health group that willRead More
Health experts: It’s time to turn off the screens and send the kids back to camp
Health experts are warning US parents to stop pacifying their kids with digital screens and send them back to summer camp as their COVID-19 quarantine wanes. They say record increasesRead More
Pediatricians are at the forefront of the Mental Health Crisis
How did Matt Richtel talk to adolescents and their families for this series? In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I follow closely.Read More
Sounding an alarm for noise and health
after the movie An inconvenient truth It inspired banks to switch to environmental studies. In 2007 he founded Planet Rewards, an online platform designed to promote environmentally friendly behavior. Officially,Read More
Subjects Also Had Questions For A Series On Mental Health
For more than a year, while reporting on “The Inner Pandemic,” a new multi-part project by the Times investigating adolescent mental health, I had the opportunity to listen to heartbreakingRead More