Teens and young adults say that health warning labels on social media would help them reduce their social media use, a Stanford Medicine study showed.

Dr. Amir Iravani, a nationally recognized nuclear medicine physician-scientist specializing in molecular imaging and targeted radiopharmaceutical therapies for patients with cancer, has joined UCLA Health where he will serve as director of the Theranostics Program and vice chair of clinical research in the department of nuclear medicine and theranostics.

Emergency visits by children with suicide-related crises increased by 74% between 2016 and 2022, according to a new study from scientists at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

The study represented more than 5 million emergency department (ED) visits for mental health concerns by U.S. children in the six-year period. About half of suicide-related ED visits — and half of all children’s mental health ED visits — occurred in hospitals with lower pediatric volume (under 10,000 annually). A child experiencing a mental health crisis may arrive at any emergency department, and many are not prepared to care for children with acute mental health needs, the study authors said. 

Albert Arias, MD, chief of addiction psychiatry at Carilion Clinic, has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to research how psilocybin, a psychedelic compound being studied for several psychiatric and substance use disorders, can offer a new approach for people with cocaine use disorder.

Emergency visits by children with suicide-related crises increased by 74%, according to a study representing over 5 million emergency department (ED) visits for mental health concerns by U.S. children from 2016 to 2022. About half of suicide-related ED visits – and half of all children’s mental health ED visits – occurred in hospitals with lower pediatric volume (under 10,000 annually). These EDs often are not prepared to care for children with acute mental health needs. The study was published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

A new comprehensive review maps the molecular chain of events through which an imbalance in the brain's chemical environment drives the destruction of nerve cells, drawing together evidence across five major neurological diseases and making the case that treating oxidative stress effectively will require a much more precise understanding of how it behaves differently in each condition.

Women have long been underrepresented in cardiovascular research, leaving important gaps in our understanding of female heart health. A new ERC-funded project at Aarhus University will investigate how hormones, stress and genetics affect women’s coronary arteries. Focusing on SCAD, a serious condition that predominantly affects women, researchers aim to uncover why arteries become vulnerable and ultimately pave the way for more precise diagnosis and treatment.