HCPlive (1/27, Butera) reports research suggests there may be “significant associations” between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and “common allergic conditions such as food allergy, respiratory allergy, and skin allergy” in children. Included in the study were “192,573 children aged four to 17 years old.” The study revealed that the “weighted prevalence” of AD/HD “was higher among children with allergic conditions.” The findings were published online in the journal Nutrients.

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— “ADHD Associated with Food, Skin and Respiratory Allergy “Armand Butera, HCPlive, January 27, 2022

Psychiatric News (1/27) reports, “Psychiatrists view telemedicine as a tool to facilitate engagement with care, encourage patients to keep appointments, and improve adherence with treatment,” investigators concluded after conducting “semi-structured interviews with 20 psychiatrists treating adults in outpatient settings across the” US from June 25 to August 4, 2021. The findings were published online Jan. 26 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Most Patients Considered Good Candidates for Telemedicine, Psychiatrists Report, Psychiatric News, January 27, 2022

NBC News (1/27, Matsakis) reports, “Meta and TikTok pulled advertisements from” Cerebral, “a major mental healthcare startup, this week after receiving inquiries from NBC News.” The two “social media platforms found the ads promoted negative body images and contained misleading health claims.” Some “experts have raised concerns about the advertising tactics mental health care startups have been using to attract patients they do believe are appropriate candidates for their services.” John Torous, MD, MBI, who chairs the American Psychiatric Association’s Mental Health IT committee, said, “When you see ads like this, you kind of worry about their marketing, who they want to reach, and how they’re reaching people.” Due to the fact that mental healthcare “startups are often backed by venture capital, they may have a mandate to grow as quickly as possible in order to provide a return to investors, he said.”

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— “Instagram and TikTok pull ads from startup Cerebral linking ADHD to obesity “Louise Matsakis, NBC News, January 27, 2022

Healio (1/26, Herpen) reports, “U.S. adults who display moderate or greater symptoms of depression are more likely to endorse misinformation related to the COVID-19 vaccine,” investigators posited.

According to Psychiatric News (1/26), additionally, those “who believed misinformation about COVID vaccines were less likely to be vaccinated or be willing to get the vaccine,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from U.S. adults who responded to at least one of two online surveys conducted between April 1 and May 3, 2021, and between June 9 and July 7, 2021.” The findings of the 15,464-participant survey study were published online Jan. 21 in JAMA Network Open.

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— “US adults with depression more likely to endorse misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine “Robert Herpen, Healio, January 26, 2022

Kaiser Health News (1/26, Covert) reports, “Miscarriage, which occurs in about a quarter of all pregnancies, is the most common form of loss of a pregnancy.” However, “there are no national laws that protect people when they need time off from work to deal with the loss.” Across the US, 30 “states and five localities…have enacted laws that require employers to offer workers accommodations related to pregnancy, which can include time off to recover from a miscarriage,” yet “outside those states, workers are protected only by” the Pregnancy Discrimination Act or the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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— “After Miscarriages, Workers Have Few Guarantees for Time Off or Job-Based Help ” Bryce Covert, Kaiser Health News, January 26, 2022