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Mental health problems among US young adults are at an all time high, with many pointing to social media as a prominent factor. Carol Vidal, a Johns Hopkins adolescent and child psychiatrist, did a study looking at depression and social …

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Which comes first, depression or social media use? Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal set out to find out. Vidal: We basically looked at depression as an outcome variable, so looking at whether the use of social media …

Looking at young adults over time helps tease out the relationship between depression and social media use, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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How are use of social media and depression related? A study led by Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal enrolled several hundred young adults to find out whether depressed people used more social media or if social media …

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Fungal infections of people are on the rise, Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor and author of “Will the Fungi Win?” states. That’s true because climate change is stimulating the organisms to become more capable of thriving at body temperatures, which …

What is the best strategy to mitigate the impact of fungal infections in people? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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What is the human thermal barrier? As Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor, describes in his new book, “Will the Fungi Win?” it is our normal body temperature, and it has been holding the majority of fungal infections in humans at …

Worrisome fungal infections are on the rise, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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The summer of 2024 is shaping up to be among the hottest on record, and for fungi, that may be just the stimulus needed to enable them to effectively infect humans. That’s according to Johns Hopkins professor Arturo Casadevall in …

Fungi are becoming more adapted to hot temperatures, and that may lead to more human infections, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Most of the world’s population is dependent on grains for survival, and if fungal attacks on these food sources continue to increase, starvation of many of us is possible. That’s according to Arturo Casadevall, author of “Will the Fungi Win,” …

Devastation of food crops is one of fungi’s biggest threats to people, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »