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Depression can be hard to treat, with even established medicines taking time to be effective and perhaps not helping at all. Now a new study compared the psychedelic drug psilocybin with escitalopram, an established antidepressant, and the results impressed Matthew …

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Can the psychedelic drug psilocybin be used to treat depression? That possibility was examined in a recent study comparing psilocybin to escitalopram, an established antidepressant, in people with moderate to severe depression. Matthew Johnson, a psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins, …

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Children don’t get severe Covid-19 disease as often as older people do. That assertion underpins decisions to travel with children and otherwise exercise fewer precautions against infection in this population. Yet Covid is not benign for kids. That’s according to …

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As the Covid pandemic rages on, more younger people are becoming infected, and more variants are being reported. Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, is concerned that children might begin experiencing infections more commonly as a …

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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, abbreviated MIS-C, appears to be on the rise in the US. Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says the syndrome may sneak up in unpredictable ways. Milstone: We have a lot …

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MIS-C stands for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, and it’s on the rise in the US, recent data indicate. Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at Johns Hopkins, describes what’s known. Milstone: This is a post-infectious phenomenon so kids …

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When people say they won’t get a Covid-19 vaccine, that’s called ‘vaccine hesitancy,’ and while one person’s individual decision not to be vaccinated may not seem like much, since we need the majority of people to get the shot to …

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