who in June took the step ofdeclaringfirearm violence a public health crisis. A newadvisoryfrom Murthy highlights the impact of gun violence and, in particular, its toll on mental health and community safety. It also offers a public health approach to addressing the issue, with severa...
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Parents are stressed out, which can deteriorate their mental health and well-being — which in turn can negatively affect children, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said in anadvisoryWednesday.Murthy — who in the past has issued advisoriesrelated to gun violence, social media use and a...
Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA: Well, here's why Kirsten, I think many clinicians and folks in the world of public health understand that gun violence is a public health issue. My belief has always been when you have large numbers of people who are dying and being injured for preventable rea...
violence, including gun violence, is due to such mental illness. Yet for those few who are violent, it is only “during certain high-risk periods, such as during a first episode of psychosis.”4In other words, there may be no history of a tendency toward violence, even of severe...
Today I want to muse a little bit about the ongoing tension many Jews by choice have with the 613 commandments and the issue of physical and mental health. I have an anxiety disorder. I’ve had it all my life; it comes with the territory when you’re autistic. One of the ways I’...
Gun Violence Emergency Declared in New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo declared the first-in-the-nation gun violence disaster emergency as part of a new, comprehensive strategy to build a safer New York. This new strategy treats gun violence as a public health crisis, using short-term solutions...
and time online are increasingly being recognized as culprits in the teen mental health crisis. But it’s striking that, as kids are strapping on their backpacks and lacing up their new kicks, parents are even more concerned with the internet than the massively terrifyin...
Much ink has been spilt and given that we've beenwriting aboutmalignantdivorcefor so long, violence comes as no real surprise. People get upset and they sometimes kill. Reasonsabound: • Pundits will point to the easy availability of guns. The gun lobby will tell you that people k...
Murthy has issued advisories in the past about health misinformation and gun violence, but also on mental health topics such as loneliness and isolation and the effects of social media on youth. “The bottom line is that we’ve got to start seeing mental health as health. It is no less ...