Sleep issues can be a big deal for teens. They can lead to some pretty serious mental health problems. One big issue is something called psychotic-like experiences, or PLEs. These are things like hearing voices or seeing things that aren't there. It's important to understand how sleep problems can lead to these experiences. A recent study looked at how sleep issues ...

When teens have friends with diagnosed mental health issues, it can affect their own chances of finishing school. This impact is not just about personal struggles but also about the influence of peers. The focus of the study was on how having classmates with mental health diagnoses in ninth grade could affect the likelihood of dropping out of upper secondary educat...

The way we eat can have a big impact on our liver health. This is especially true for a condition called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD. MASLD is a fancy term for a liver that's too full of fat. It is a growing problem worldwide. Many studies have looked at how diet affects MASLD. However, the results have been all over the pla...

Ever wondered if the age of a father can affect the mental health of his children? Well, it turns out that there might be a link between a father's age and the risk of mental health issues in his kids. The idea is that as men get older, their sperm can accumulate more mutations. These mutations, known as de novo mutations (DNMs), are not in...

Even after years of government efforts to educate people about HIV, the number of new HIV cases among women in Indonesia is rising. This is happening at the same time as a noticeable lack of complete understanding about HIV among these women. One of the main challenges for the Indonesian government is to provide HIV prevention education across the vast archipelago. T...