'Although recent modeling studies predict that school closures alone would prevent only two percent to four percent of deaths, school closures may be associated with mental health problems among students owing to a prolonged state of physical isolation from peers, teachers, extended family, and community networks,' the study authors wrote. … [Read more...] about Could reopening schools spare US kids from depression epidemic? Mental health problems grew by 35% and suicide attempts doubled during lockdown in China
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Student nurse wrote ‘cry for help’ letter to health board before taking her own life
"They act like they know me and know what's best for me. They don't at all. What happened to patient voice? I'm ignored and not listened to. I'm treated like dirt. I'm left to feel unwanted. Staff are rude and blunt with me. They genuinely don't care." … [Read more...] about Student nurse wrote ‘cry for help’ letter to health board before taking her own life
TV health guru’s £99 diet ‘sets life-threatening weight-loss goals’
Ensure users cannot set goals which make them underweight. Look at providing links to NHS resources on mental health. Change a meal plan which totalled a miserly 673 calories on one day. The doctor – a popular TV figure and famous for developing the 5:2 diet – boasted in a recent interview he was paid “silly money” to write a book about the Fast 800 regime. … [Read more...] about TV health guru’s £99 diet ‘sets life-threatening weight-loss goals’
Health officials worry the ‘lost summer of 2020’ will spark a surge in COVID-19 cases as crowds across the country flout social distancing rules over Labor Day weekend
However, some took sensible steps to keep socially distanced, such as in Downtown Atlanta which was quiet as the 85,000 or so people who come dressed as their favorite superheroes or sci-fi characters for the annual Dragon Con convention met online instead. … [Read more...] about Health officials worry the ‘lost summer of 2020’ will spark a surge in COVID-19 cases as crowds across the country flout social distancing rules over Labor Day weekend
Melbourne lockdown is worse than WUHAN, says health minister as he lays into Daniel Andrews for ‘locking people in their homes’
Step four: The move to step four will come when there have been no new COVID-19 cases in the past 14 days. The aim is for this to come into place on November 23. … [Read more...] about Melbourne lockdown is worse than WUHAN, says health minister as he lays into Daniel Andrews for ‘locking people in their homes’
