by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2021 | Health
Therapy dogs can bring light into otherwise dark lives. Therapy dogs aren’t necessarily as highly trained as service dogs for visually impaired people, for example, but therapy dogs must have specific characteristics. Therapy dogs need to be...
by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2021 | Health
Responsible scientists and scholars hesitate to prematurely claim causation when data shows a correlation between two factors. Researchers from the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health withhold claims of causation in either direction between...
by Bruce Brown | March 4, 2020 | Health
Engineers from Texas A&M University (TAMU) are taking a proactive approach to the mental health of college students. Researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering are developing a wearable continuous mental health monitoring and...
by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2019 | Medical
Treating and managing clinical depression would be much easier if the disease was the same for all people, but that’s not the case. Pharmacological treatment too often requires multiple trials to determine the best medication for the individual patient, a...
by Bruce Brown | June 4, 2019 | Medical
Depression is a primary cause of disability globally, according to the World Health Organization, which tallies more than 300 million people suffering from depression worldwide. For a person with clinical depression, the search for an effective pharmaceutical solution...