How to outsmart your COVID-19 fears and boost your mood in 2021
One medication-free technique uses your emotions to release stress.
Dec. 28, 2020 • ~6 min
health mental-health covid-19 coronavirus depression anxiety stress fear training emotions fight-or-flight cognitive-behavioral-therapy self-help
More PT and OT cuts death risk for pneumonia patients
Physical therapy and occupational therapy leads to fewer hospital readmissions and lower death risk for patients with pneumonia, a new study shows.
Sept. 30, 2020 • ~4 min
lungs hospitals pneumonia health-and-medicine physical-therapy
MGH-led study shows light therapy is safe
MGH-led study shows light therapy is safe, modulates brain repair, and may benefit patients with moderate traumatic brain injury.
Sept. 23, 2020 • ~8 min
harvard-medical-school health-medicine hms massachusetts-general-hospital mgh benjamin-vakoc light-therapy rajiv-gupta
3 research-based ways to cope with the uncertainties of pandemic life
Feel like you're facing too many pandemic-related unknowns? Reframing what it means to not know can help you break the uncertainty-anxiety connection.
Sept. 22, 2020 • ~7 min
mental-health covid-19 coronavirus anxiety psychology uncertainty cognitive-behavioral-therapy worry coronavirus-anxiety mindset
CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapy
The immune system is trained to destroy viruses, even when they carry therapeutic cargo as is the case in gene therapy. Now researchers have figured out how to dial down the immune response.
Sept. 3, 2020 • ~7 min
innovation health medicine crispr inflammation immune-system gene-therapy gene-editing viruses steroids
I'm a lung doctor testing the blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors as a treatment for the sick – a century-old idea that could be a fast track to treatment
In the blood of COVID-19 survivors are antibodies that can defeat SARS-CoV-2. Researchers are testing whether these antibodies can be collected and injected into others to save them from the virus.
Aug. 21, 2020 • ~8 min
covid-19 pandemic antibodies sars-cov-2 viruses infections covid-19-therapy convalescent-plasma
I'm a lung doctor testing the blood from COVID-19 survivors as a treatment for the sick – a century old idea that could be a fast track to treatment
In the blood of COVID-19 survivors are antibodies that can defeat SARS-CoV-2. Researchers are testing whether these antibodies can be collected and injected into others to save them from the virus.
Aug. 21, 2020 • ~7 min
covid-19 pandemic antibodies sars-cov-2 viruses infections covid-19-therapy convalescent-plasma
Listen: Drugs like MDMA and LSD are transforming therapy
Listen to an expert break down the latest findings on how psychoactive drugs like MDMA are changing the way people engage with therapy on this podcast.
Aug. 3, 2020 • ~3 min
drugs memory therapy featured health-and-medicine post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd
Cell-like decoys could mop up viruses in humans – including the one that causes COVID-19
Nanoparticles dressed up in cell membranes snag SARS-CoV-2 virus particles before they reach human cells.
July 9, 2020 • ~5 min
covid-19 coronavirus immune-system nanotechnology pandemic vaccines treatment covid-19-vaccine biomedical-research covid-19-therapy
COVID-19 and telehealth may be changing how much you know about your therapist
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
July 1, 2020 • ~9 min
health psychiatry covid-19 coronavirus psychology pandemic telehealth mental-illness therapy telemedicine covid-19-front-lines technology psychotherapy
/
4