The top 10 mental health apps

Approximately 48.3 million adults in the United States are faced with a mental healthcondition each year, and 9.8 million of those are serious conditions that limit the activities of everyday life. Among U.S. adults aged 18–44, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are now the third most …

Being overweight often goes with a number of health problems, but it also has psychological effects. Children who are overweight are more prone to low self-esteem, negative body image, and depression. Due to the size of this issue, much research is focused on trying to understand the psychology behind …

Regular family mealtimes may benefit children’s physical and mental health. Researchers have found that children who often ate meals with their family at the age of 6 years old had better social skills and general fitness by the age of 10, compared with those who rarely spent mealtimes with their family.

A child needs enough nutrition to support a healthy growth, inclusive of protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins for a healthy development of the child. If the child does not get enough nutrition, it not only leads to deformed development but extreme cases lead to stunting, a process where the body halts the …

The World Health Organization is adding an unexpected disorder to its list of mental health conditions in 2018. Next year, people who play an … The inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD-11 means health care workers and doctors can now diagnose someone with the condition. The description of the …

An analysis of the shape and components of human hair can help detect diseases and determine overall health, a research institute and companies said. Eighteen organizations and companies, including the Riken research institute, wigmaker Aderans Co. and search engine provider Yahoo Japan Corp., …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is in “excellent health,” Dr. Ronny Jackson said in a statement after he gave the president a medical examination. … “The president is in excellent health and I look forward to briefing some of the details on Tuesday,” Jackson said in a short statement.

Therefore, on seeing an image of a woman who was overweight, they would perceive her to be a healthy weight if the previous image they had viewed was of woman of a healthy weight. But what do these findings — recently published in the journal Scientific Reports — mean outside of a laboratory setting …

Older men and women who engage in more housework might have better health. Though if women get too much or too little sleep, the health benefits of housework diminish. The new study — which was recently published in the journal BMC Public Health — was led by Nicholas Adjei and Tilman Brand, …

Mayor Tom Barrett asked for Milwaukee Health Department Commissioner Bevan Baker’s resignation Thursday because the department failed to ensure that families of 8,000 children with elevated blood levels were notified. A Common Council statement said MHD “failed to ensure adequate notification of …