BACKGROUND Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, argue that treatments available in high-income countries should also be made available in low- and middle-income countries. Such arguments are oft...

BACKGROUND In France, negative views on schizophrenia are pervasive, even among health professionals. Prior research suggests that the level of prejudice is lower when the illness is described with the example of a specific individual. This finding highlights the importance of designing local, targeted destigmatization campaigns. The present study aims to evaluate the benefits of a short interv...

In the 2000s, online games became popular, while studies of Internet gaming addiction emerged, outlining the negative consequences of excessive gaming, its prevalence, and associated risk factors. The establishment of specialized treatment centers in South-East Asia, the US, and Europe reflects the growing need for professional help. It is argued that only by understanding the appeal of Interne...

Naloxone, most commonly known as Narcan, is a potent opioid antagonist that can readily rescue individuals with overdose by displacing the offending agonist from complementary receptors in brainstem. As such, it has saved thousands of lives and increasingly used first responders hospital emergency departments to revive suspected poisoning.1Rando J. Broering D. Olson J.E. et al.Intranasal naloxo...

1 Medical Director, Zanmi Lasante, Haiti; and Professor, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02155, USA. Correspondence should be sent to the author at the latter address (email: [email protected]). WHO’s new Director-General has just declared AIDS to be a global health emergency. This move is not unprecedented but does signal a welcome departure from business as usual. Ca...

To elaborate an understanding of medieval humanity rooted in the body, we must consider a broad class of ‘bodies’ beyond the physical. Applying the methodologies of disability studies to textual corpora offers new ways to reflect on the boundaries of the human in medieval literature. The dits, generically mixed texts, may thus be read as a corpus generated from a posthuman blending of textual e...