Seniors With Anxiety Frequently Don’t Get Help. Here’s Why.
Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated with considerable distress as well as ill health,...
Proposed Medicare Advantage Changes Cannot Accurately Be Called ‘Cuts,’ Experts Say
“It’s President Biden who is proposing to cut Medicare Advantage.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a tweet on February 6, 2023 More than 60 million...
Swamidass named AAAS fellow
S. Joshua Swamidass, MD, PhD, an associate professor of pathology & immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is among 505 new...
Lost Sleep and Jangled Nerves: The Rising Onslaught of Noise Harms Mind and Body
SACRAMENTO — Mike Thomson’s friends refuse to stay over at his house anymore. Thomson lives about 50 yards from a busy freeway that bisects California’s...
Medical Public Affairs is now WashU Medicine Marketing & Communications
The Office of Medical Public Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is being restructured and has been renamed WashU Medicine Marketing...
As State Institutions Close, Families of Longtime Residents Face Agonizing Choices
GLENWOOD, Iowa — Mike Lee’s way of life has faded away in most of the United States, and it soon will vanish from southwestern Iowa....
La línea de salud mental 988 se expande, pero no demasiado en las zonas rurales
La línea 988 de National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, que se lanzó el 16 de julio, fue diseñada como una herramienta universal de apoyo a la...
Journalists Delve Into Vaccine Mandates and Surprise Billing
California Healthline correspondent Rachel Bluth discussed California’s doomed covid-19 vaccine mandates on iHeartPodcasts “The Daily Dive” on June 7. Click here to hear Bluth on...
Long Wait for Justice: People in Jail Face Delays for Mental Health Care Before They Can Stand Trial
Beau Hampton’s long wait for psychiatric treatment began last year, after he was accused of attacking his foster father and charged with a misdemeanor. The...
Pagliarini named Hugo F. and Ina C. Urbauer Professor
David J. Pagliarini, PhD, a nationally recognized leader in mitochondrial biology and a BJC Investigator at the School of Medicine, has been named the inaugural...