Day: May 1, 2024

Nearly 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for kidney transplant, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Finding a donor kidney that is compatible and matches the right blood and tissue types can be the biggest challenge, especially when the donor pool isn’t as large as the number of people Read More

Social isolation is a difficult experience for many people and was particularly distressing during the COVID-19 pandemic. For adolescents who are immunocompromised, physical distancing can be important in managing their risk of serious infection, but it can be an especially negative experience during some of their most formative years. A recent study by Dr. Lindsay Read More

Due to a later melatonin onset and increased alertness in the evening, teenagers often find it hard to fall asleep at a time that would allow them to clock up the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep each night. It is also during teenage years when increasing school demands, activities, more independence from parents, Read More

There’s a large and growing body of evidence pointing to potentially negative impacts of social media on mental health, from its addictive nature to disruptions in sleep patterns to effects on body image. Now, a new study coming out of York University’s Faculty of Health found young women who took a social media break for Read More

Study design. Credit: Ameur et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Combining time-restricted eating with high-intensity functional training may improve body composition and cardiometabolic parameters more than either alone, according to a study published May 1, 2024, in PLOS ONE by Ranya Ameur and Rami Maaloul from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, and colleagues. Read More

Connections and Wordle are two of the New York Times’ most popular games. But does playing help your brain health? Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Every day, millions of people across the globe fill their morning commute or lunch break with New York Times games such as Wordle or Connections. The Times offers a slew of Read More

Three-quarters of Americans feel that mental health conditions are identified and treated with much less care than physical health issues within the U.S. health care system, even as more than 80% perceive a dramatic rise in prevalence of mental health issues in the last five years, according to a new survey from West Health and Read More