Talk and text-based therapy apps promise to streamline the experience of finding the right mental health counselor or therapist. Here are some apps we recommend.read more…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski said on Tuesday he was resigning from his post. The announcement came a day after Deputy Health Minister Janusz Cieszynski announced he was leaving the ministry. The resignations come at a time of growing criticism of how Poland’s ruling Law and Justice…
Current smartphone-based exposure notification systems (ENS) like the one created jointly by Apple and Google are a clever way of leveraging modern technology to support comprehensive contact tracing efforts by health agencies worldwide. But the COVID-19 pandemic is not what anyone had in mind when the Bluetooth standard was created,…
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Infected passengers were allowed to leave the ship in Sydney in March Australian officials have admitted they failed to carry out mandatory health checks on board a cruise ship that became the source of one of the country’s largest coronavirus clusters. Andrew Metcalfe, the secretary for…
LONDON (Reuters) – England will scrap the government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies after the country has suffered the highest death rate in Europe from the coronavirus pandemic. Public Health England, a cornerstone of the state-run health system with responsibility for managing infectious outbreaks, will have its…
As college students return to school, some have noticed a new line item on their bill: a coronavirus fee. With new costs for screening, testing, and safety configurations, the New York Times reports some colleges and universities are passing part of the expense along to students. While schools are hoping…
Meditation has known benefits, both research-backed and anecdotal. But few things in this life work for everybody, and theres reason to believe that meditation may make some peoples mental health worse. If thats you, I hereby give you permission to quit. Guilt-free. What reminded me to say this was a…
(CNN)Some American universities that have reopened their campuses to students have already reportedclusters of coronavirus cases, while others have seenflagrant violations of their public health plans. University of North Carolina and Oklahoma State University reported clusters of new cases among students this weekend. And social media videos at a University…
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on strike over unpaid salaries, hurting the country’s ability to identify and treat patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The Ebola epidemic in western Congo…
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on strike over unpaid salaries, hurting the country’s ability to identify and treat patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The Ebola epidemic in western Congo…
