Results of an analysis of health survey data from more than 560,000 U.S. college students concludes that depression symptoms have steadily increased over the past 15 years, particularly among women, ...

Children as young as seven begin to internalize stereotypes about who is more or less likely to pursue occupations related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—beliefs that may ...

Introduction Motivated health workers are pivotal in providing adequate health services. This study aims to understand what motivates and demotivates maternal health workers. We do so in Somalia, an ...

Two years after Colorado passed a first-in-the-nation law to ensure our private thoughts remain private, Congress is now following suit. A bill in the U.S. Senate aims to protect our neural data or ...

Providing explicit guidance on the timing of medication intake can improve efficacy and patient quality of life. A review published in Endocrine Reviews reached this conclusion after examining ...

Sometimes it’s the living who haunt the dead. A New York primary care doctor redefined the phrase “life after death” after finding that the brain remains active even after one’s heart stops, as ...

Next time you're considering consulting Dr. ChatGPT, perhaps think again. Despite now being able to ace most medical licensing exams, artificial intelligence chatbots do not give humans better health ...

When university students get to create real value for others, their motivation, self-confidence, and academic performance increase. This is shown by a new study published in The International Journal ...

Imagine if you could predict which mothers would give birth prematurely. Then imagine there was some easy interventions to prevent that. A new national study of more than 5,000 pregnant women in 19 ...

Maintaining motivation is key to making an exercise routine stick for years, but most people struggle to find what truly motivates them — after all, most New Year's resolutions are abandoned by the ...

When people on Medicaid look for a doctor, the search often starts with a long list of names that makes health care seem within reach. But for many patients, that list often turns into a string of ...

Designed to assist rather than replace doctors, a new autonomous tool scans clinical notes to highlight patients who may need urgent follow-up for cognitive decline and potential dementia. When you ...