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RFK Jr. Recounts Heroin Addiction, Urges Focus on Prevention and Community
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115279.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening, and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young people need a sense of purpose in their...


Young-Onset Dementia Risk Rises With Metabolic Syndrome
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115253.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The risk of young-onset dementia -- dementia before age 65 -- was higher in people with metabolic syndrome, a nationwide population-based study in Korea showed. Across nearly 2 million people with a mean age of 49, metabolic...


Coldplay Singer's Depression; Add-On Cobenfy Flopped; Uptick in Psilocybin Use
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115245.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Coldplay singer Chris Martin shared his strategies for managing depression with Vanity Fair. More than 13% of American adolescents and adults reported being depressed in the past 2 weeks, according to National Health and Nutrition...


Bill Treats mRNA Vaccines as 'Weapons'; Brain Drain Begins? New Ice Bucket Challenge
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115237.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Common Intervention Lowers Dementia Risk, Trial Shows
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115214.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Reducing hypertension dropped dementia risk by 15% in the open-label China Rural Hypertension Control phase III (CRHC-3) trial of nearly 34,000 people. At 48 months, all-cause dementia among people with high blood pressure was...


Trump's War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Deaths, and More
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115206.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. More children ages 1 to 4...


Oral and Injectable Naltrexone Similarly Effective for Alcohol Use Disorder
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115204.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Daily oral and monthly extended-release injectable naltrexone were similarly effective at reducing heavy drinking days in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), a hospital-based randomized trial showed. Among 248 adults prescribed...


Mad Cow-Like Disease Deaths in U.S.; Measles in 27 States; Cannabis Potency Soars
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115203.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


As Dementia Rates Increase, Experts Warn Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Underprepared
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115166.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- AURORA, Ill. -- At her mother's home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he's smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T-shirt that reads, "Pops. The...


Believers Say Microdosing Psychedelics Helps as Scientists Try to Measure the Claims
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115183.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to try to reduce anxiety, stress, and depression...


Hearing Loss May Play a Bigger Role in Dementia Than Previously Thought
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115179.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Hearing loss may play a bigger role in dementia than previously thought, data from a U.S. cohort study suggested. In a sample of nearly 3,000 older adults, up to 32% (95% CI 11.0%-46.5%) of incident dementia over 8 years could...


Suicidal Thoughts in 5% of Adults; CBT's Impact by Disorder; Non-Hallucinogenic LSD?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115150.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- One in 20 U.S. adults in 2023 reported having suicidal thoughts over the past year, researchers detailed in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Another MMWR found that 15% of U.S. adults used cannabis in 2022. HHS...


Here's How Psychiatrists Actually Prescribe Medication
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115148.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Content warning: This piece contains descriptions of suicidal ideation and suicidality. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. "Please, let me die," I whispered...


The Monster We Made: Psychiatry, Stigma, and 'The Pitt'
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115133.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- "The Pitt," a medical drama set in a fictional Pittsburgh trauma center, captures the human connections forged in emergency medicine. The television show, which streams on Max, follows a team of residents and medical students...


Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115116.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- People who required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort study of 6 million people in Canada suggested...


Misinformation About Fentanyl Exposure Threatens to Undermine Overdose Response
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115063.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation's high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation. False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports...


Removing Restraints: Reclaiming Patient Dignity in Delirium Care
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115082.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her condition worsened, she developed...


Healthy Aging and Diet; Global Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115087.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


Depression-Pain Link; New Wave of 'Electroceuticals'; Panic Attacks From Alcohol
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115028.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A 14-year U.K. Biobank study linked depression incidence with pain, regardless of body site or duration. (Science Advances) The Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team (START), a hospital-based addiction consultation service...


What 'Make America Healthy Again' Means for Mental Health
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115022.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Mental health is now ubiquitous in national headlines. Americans are more depressed, anxious, and stressed than ever before. The pandemic left many of us grappling with its lasting effects, underscoring the urgent need for robust...


CDC's Population Health Office Is Gone
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115021.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Division of Population Health was eliminated in its entirety in the Trump administration's mass layoffs at HHS, with the exception of one of its data-gathering operations. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System...