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Australian coronial data show that fatal poisonings involving new psychoactive stimulants and hallucinogens were rarely single-drug events. In 70 toxicology-confirmed deaths from 2007 throug…
Read articleA 2026 Egyptian study of 76 children found a sharp mental-health gradient in phenylketonuria (PKU): late-diagnosed children had higher depression scores, lower quality of life, lower IQ, and…
Read articleA 12-week text-message intervention for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders improved diabetes self-management confidence and patient activation, but it did not yet move weight, HbA1…
Read articleWarm AI chatbots can feel more supportive while becoming less reliable. In a 2026 Nature experiment across 5 language models, warmth fine-tuning raised wrong-answer rates by 7.43 percentage …
Read articleThe “men have shallower friendships” story is too blunt. In a 2026 Sex Roles analysis of 1,899 young adults, the familiar gender friendship gap was largely driven by one group: white men rep…
Read articleThe most-quoted figure on veteran suicide is “22 a day,” produced from 21-state death-certificate data for 1999–2010.2 The VA’s 2024 Annual Report — with mortality data through 2022 — puts t…
Read articleClozapine has been the most effective antipsychotic in schizophrenia for almost 40 years, yet it is still routinely held back until patients have failed multiple alternatives over many years…
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