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In the rural districts of southwestern Uganda, where regional referral hospitals serve as the final point of contact between many families and formal medicine, a new study has documented what women recovering from maternal mental illness and their family caregivers actually experience as they navigate care - and the picture that emerges is one of quiet resilience, deep stigma, and a health system that often catches these patients only by accident.

Vaping has become one of the most widely adopted nicotine delivery methods of the past decade, particularly among adolescents and young adults, yet its relationship with mental health conditions remains surprisingly underexplored.

Children who are both bullied and bullying others may carry a distinct psychological signature compared with those who are only victimized, according to a new network analysis of primary school students in Hong Kong.

Every chaplain knows the moment: a patient grips a hand and whispers that a terrible image keeps forcing itself into their mind, or that a thought about harm, blasphemy, or despair keeps returning no matter how hard they pray it away. For many care-seekers, the anguish is not the thought itself but the verdict they hand down about what the thought must mean-that they are spiritually failing, that the thought is demonic, that God has abandoned them, or that their faith is fatally weak.

Glaucoma surgeons have long known that the same operation can produce strikingly different results from one patient to the next, but a new study from Japan offers some of the clearest evidence yet about why that happens after one of the field's most popular minimally invasive procedures.

Young people who are struggling with their mental health often find help in unexpected places: a youth club down the street, a patch of green space where they can unwind, a sports programme staffed by adults they trust. These community assets, as researchers call them, can play a powerful role in supporting adolescent wellbeing, yet the pathways that lead vulnerable young people toward or away from them remain poorly understood.

Women who devote themselves to caring for relatives with cancer in India appear to know remarkably little about the screening tests that could save their own lives, according to a new cross-sectional study conducted at a tertiary cancer centre in the southern state of Karnataka.

In a striking convergence of plant chemistry and nanotechnology, researchers have engineered gold nanoparticles stabilized by quercetin, a naturally occurring flavonoid found in many fruits and vegetables, and demonstrated that the resulting bio-nano compound packs an impressive portfolio of therapeutic activities: potent antioxidant effects, protection of red blood cell membranes, strong anti-inflammatory action, selective killing of breast cancer cells, and significant antibacterial...

A daily dose of vitamin D may help children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes need less insulin, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. The analysis, published in BMC Endocrine Disorders, found that vitamin D supplementation produced a statistically significant reduction in total daily insulin requirements in young patients, even though it did not appear to improve blood sugar control or preserve the function of insulin-producing cells.

For people living with type 1 diabetes, the promise of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology has long been heralded as a transformative step toward safer, more manageable daily life.