Mental Health
Severe maternal morbidity raises risk for mental health hospitalizations, ED visits
Severe maternal morbidity was associated with increased risk for mental health hospitalization or emergency department visit up to 13 years postpartum, according to a population-based Canadian cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.
Air pollution amplifies relationship between poor mental health, poor heart health
Air pollution accentuates the relationship between poor mental health and premature mortality from heart disease in the United States, researchers reported at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024.
Prescription digital therapeutic for postpartum depression receives FDA 510(k) clearance
An 8-week prescription digital therapeutic for treatment of postpartum depression symptoms received FDA 510(k) clearance, according to a press release from Curio Digital Therapeutics.
How PCPs can address gaps in mental health care
BOSTON — Primary care providers are addressing mental health more than ever before and can take simple steps to close gaps in care, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.
Adults with strabismus up to 3 times more likely to have mental health conditions
Adults with strabismus were more likely to have mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression and substance use and addiction, compared with those without strabismus, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
5 questions with Scrub Sisters founder, Jacqueline Winkelmann, MD, FAAP
Every founder and entrepreneur is looking to solve a problem or create something that they wish they would have had for themselves, according to Jacqueline Winkelmann, MD, FAAP.
Deucravacitinib improves ‘broad range’ of patient-reported psoriatic arthritis outcomes
Patients with psoriatic arthritis who receive deucravacitinib report significant improvements in mental health, pain, fatigue and other outcomes vs. placebo, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.
Q&A: How pediatricians can counsel patients and parents on overdose prevention
Two pediatric addiction medical specialists and a mother who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning collaborated to write anticipatory guidance that may help pediatricians counsel patients and families on overdose prevention strategies.
Families of very low-birth-weight infants more likely to use mental health care
Parents of very low-birth-weight premature infants are more likely to use mental health care in the first year after discharge from the NICU than families who do not have a premature infant, according to a study.
Partners, adult children of stroke survivors at higher risk for mental health conditions
The risk for mental health conditions and self-harm or suicide was higher among partners and adult offspring of stroke survivors vs. the general population and family of myocardial infarction survivors, according to a study in Denmark.