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When young children show disruptive behavior in preschool, the solution rarely lies with the child alone. It lies with the adults around them, and above all with whether those adults can work together.

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, few aspects of daily life escaped disruption. Lockdowns, school closures, economic uncertainty and social isolation reshaped routines across the globe, and researchers have spent the years since working to understand how those upheavals affected human wellbeing.

In a finding that challenges one of medicine's most comfortable assumptions, researchers at Luxor University in Egypt have shown that physicians suffering from chronic diseases are no better at taking their prescribed medications than ordinary patients with comparable conditions.

Nearly one in three adolescents in urban Dhaka may be at risk of an eating disorder, and the single strongest warning sign is not emotional turmoil or the pull of fast food advertising-it is deliberate dieting itself.

When a child in a family lives with a chronic disorder-a rare genetic condition, a neurodevelopmental diagnosis, or a serious somatic illness-the spotlight of clinical attention naturally falls on that child and the parents navigating appointments, therapies, and daily care. But siblings often stand quietly in the margins of that picture, and a growing body of research suggests they carry a small but meaningful increase in risk for mental health problems of their own.

In a finding that is already drawing attention across pain research and psychology of religion communities, a team of scientists at Mayo Clinic and partner institutions has shown that forgiveness-particularly the feeling of being forgiven by God-may play a surprising protective role in how women with fibromyalgia cope psychologically with their illness.

The people who teach patients how to use modern insulin technology are, for the most part, confident in what they do-but a new survey reveals exactly where their confidence falters, and the answers carry important lessons for the global roll-out of automated insulin delivery systems.

A new study argues that health policymakers and the researchers who advise them have been thinking about "evidence" in far too narrow a term-and it proposes an elegant fix.

A simple measurement that radiologists already make on almost every abdominal CT scan may hold one of the most powerful clues to how long a patient with advanced liver cancer will live and how badly they will tolerate treatment.

When patients living with long-term illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, or chronic pain walk through the doors of a hospital workshop dedicated to painting, music, relaxation, or movement, most clinicians would struggle to say precisely what changes inside them.