by Research Team | Apr 6, 2015 | Health News
By law , many U.S. insurance providers that offer mental health care are required to cover it just as they would cancer or diabetes care. But advocates say achieving this mental health parity can be a challenge.
by Research Team | Apr 6, 2015 | Health News
Last August, at a stop during a rain-soaked Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon, Brian Lutes of Brewster walked into a tent at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay and broke down. Lutes, 48, is one of 43 people who were part of a photography project by...
by Research Team | Apr 6, 2015 | Health News
Louis Theroux’s new documentary meets transgender children and their parents in San Francisco, where there is a growing trend to allow transgender people to transition as early as possible in life. First we met Camille, 5, who was born a boy called...
by Research Team | Apr 6, 2015 | Health News
The rates of myopia have doubled, even tripled, in most of East Asia over the last 40 years, researchers say. Several places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have rates in the 80%.
by Research Team | Apr 6, 2015 | Health News
Pensioners in the UK are seven times more likely to develop the deadliest form of skin cancer than they were four decades ago, according to new figures from Cancer Research UK. Men aged 65 and over are around 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant...