Mental Health

Women are not universally at risk for depressive symptoms during menopause transition, but providers should be aware of risk factors and treat mental health disorders promptly, according to a review published in The Lancet.

I find the annual surveys on physician compensation, lifestyle/happiness and burnout/depression, published by Medscape, to be informative. In the following paragraphs, I will share some of these findings and my perspective.

Ophthalmology is typically seen as one of the most rewarding careers in medicine.

Fortunately, I am a surgeon who has not had a high rate of complications, but nobody’s rate is zero. I have vivid memories of the moment when I ruptured the posterior capsule for the first time.

Parents of children with cancer made mental health visits, including those for anxiety and depression, significantly more often than other parents, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

While the CDC estimated that excessive alcohol use contributed to approximately 178,000 U.S. deaths each year from 2020 to 2021, an emerging lifestyle trend may help counter those statistics in the years ahead.

Testosterone replacement therapy did not improve most quality of life and psychosocial measures for men with pathological hypogonadism who were at high risk for type 2 diabetes, according to study findings.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine caused PTSD and worsened the mental health of adolescents and teens in the region, according to two studies.

The CDC published a guide that hospitals can use to reduce the risk for burnout among health care staff.

A smartphone app demonstrated the ability to evaluate vocal biomarkers in a 30-second voice sample to identify and predict elevated mental health symptoms, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.