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Igor D. Bandeira :verified:

Our study explores innovative strategies to prolong the antisuicidal effects of ketamine in individuals with treatment-resistant depression, a critical step toward improving outcomes for patients in crisis.

This recognition not only supports early-career researchers like myself, but also strengthens our collective mission to advance evidence-based care for depression and suicidality.

#ADAA2025#SuicidePrevention#DepressionResearch
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Can you treat grief with a pill? Naltrexone, which is used to treat alcohol and opioid addictions, has been mooted as a way to help people with prolonged grief disorder (the premise being that they have become "addicted" to the person they lost). Ayesha Habib, whose father died when she was 21, writes for The Walrus about the many issues with this approach. "After my dad’s passing, my friends at the time grew awkward around me. They didn’t know how to speak to me, and some disappeared from my life entirely. Every person has a different way of understanding death and grief," she writes.

“In a world where grief literacy is so low, I worry about our intolerance for being present with people in pain,” says Marney Thompson, the director of the bereavement services program at Victoria Hospice in British Columbia. “I think we’re so quick to jump to the solution, the fix, the ‘get over it’ that we just don’t allow space for real human emotion, which is sadness and sorrow and suffering.”

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The Walrus · The Pill That Promises to Cure Grief | The WalrusSome experts aren’t so convinced it’s a good idea
#Grief#Bereavement#Psychology
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Kennedy Issues Demands for #Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall #CovidBoosters
Health Secretary #RFK Jr. announced a plan that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely takes place.
The agency suggested that #clinicaltrials in humans may be required for updated #Covid shots, raising questions about whether they will be available in the fall.
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The New York Times · Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid BoostersBy Christina Jewett
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

What #NIH #Layoffs Mean for #Cancer Patients
In the rush of headlines about budgets and restructuring, it’s easy to miss what’s really at stake. But working in cancer innovation and advocacy: when we delay #science, we delay survival. When we dismantle #research infrastructure, people #die waiting. Thousands at #NIH and #HHS were laid off. These were the people running #clinicaltrials, developing new treatment strategies, and pushing promising therapies toward approval.
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SciLight · What NIH Layoffs Mean for Cancer PatientsBy Catharine Young
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