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The LEAF (Life Enhancing Activities for Family caregivers) intervention may help to reduce the stress of caregiving for a family member with dementia

Positive Emotion Intervention Cuts Caregiver Stress

Focus on positive emotions reduces caregiver anxiety and depression after six weeks
Children with chronic illness have lower general health

Children With Chronic Illness Can Have Normal Life Satisfaction

Parent-reported health lower, but life satisfaction comparable to that of peers without chronic illness
Medical financial hardship affects more than half of adults in the United States

More Than Half of U.S. Adults Have Medical Financial Hardship

Hardship in material, psychological, behavioral domains more likely for those age 18 to 64 versus ≥65
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New Drugs May Influence Social Behaviors in Those With Autism

Drugs modulating the vasopressin pathway explored as agents to modify social behaviors in autism
Drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants accounted for 19.8 and 14.7 percent

Cocaine-, Psychostimulant-Involved Death Rates Increasing

Synthetic opioids driving increases in cocaine-involved deaths, less so in psychostimulant-involved deaths
Living alone is positively associated with common mental disorders in the general population in England

Living Alone Tied to Increased Risk for Mental Disorders

Loneliness explains majority of the association with common mental disorders
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requiring a new boxed warning on sleep medications such as Ambien

FDA Puts Tough Warning Label on Ambien, Lunesta, Other Sleep Aids

Move spurred by 66 cases of 'complex sleep behaviors' after taking the insomnia medications

April 2019 Briefing – Psychiatry

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Psychiatry for April 2019. This roundup includes the latest...
Youth with cognitive impairment or developmental disability have weight-loss trajectories after bariatric surgery similar to those of their peers with typical cognitive function

Cognitive Function Does Not Predict Pediatric Bariatric Surgery Outcome

Weight loss trajectory did not differ between those with, without cognitive impairment
Diagnosed mental health conditions

Mental Health Treatment, Diagnoses Up in Military Children

Mental health diagnoses, visits, prescriptions increased since 2003