Ketamine has emerged as a potential alternative for some people with treatment-resistant depression, producing antidepressant effects more rapidly than conventional medications. But its benefits, limitations and safety requirements remain important considerations.
A 2024 study of Black women in Alberta found that socioeconomic barriers, racism and healthcare system challenges significantly affect access to care, while trusted physicians, positive patient-provider relationships and community organizations helped improve experiences.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed two bipartisan bills on September 24, 2026, aimed at reducing barriers to mental health care for pilots and air traffic controllers and improving transparency around FAA medication certification rules.
Understanding the science of addiction challenges the misconception that it is simply a lack of self-control. Research shows that repeated substance use can alter brain systems involved in reward, motivation and decision-making.
Fitness and health-tracking apps can encourage healthy habits, but when notifications and daily targets begin influencing how we feel about ourselves, digital health tracking can become another source of pressure, guilt and anxiety.
Many mothers experience postpartum depression in silence, shaped by stigma, cultural barriers, and societal pressure to present motherhood as uniformly joyful. Families have a role to play in changing that.
Conservative MP Corey Tochor introduced Bill C-286 in June 2026 to create a more direct regulated pathway for medical psilocybin access in Canada, drawing on the experience of Saskatchewan resident Thomas Hartle.
New research from Queen's University Belfast links air pollutants including PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide to suicidal thoughts, attempts and death by suicide, raising questions about how environmental conditions intersect with mental health.
The B.C. Supreme Court ruled on July 30 that the province's forced psychiatric treatment regime violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, giving the province six months to respond.
Meta has signed an $18 billion agreement with 52 US attorneys general, introducing default screen time limits, nighttime restrictions, and parental supervision tools for teen accounts on Instagram and Facebook.