"People tend to joke about mood swings, saying 'my mood swings throughout the day, I'm already a bit bipolar,' or joke with each other, saying 'everything is bipolar.' And it's not quite like that, as ...

Community leaders and service providers gathered at the Center on Market on Wednesday for a training focused on challenging ...

Media and anti-stigma activities could help combat mental health stigma and discrimination, but only with lived experience involvement, according to research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, ...

Weight stigma is a commonly reported experience in maternity care that negatively impacts the health of mothers and their babies. Women who experience weight stigma commonly report symptoms of ...

Integrating HIV prevention and treatment into primary care could help address the persisting stigma about the virus, which is keeping some patients from getting access to drugs that can prevent ...

For people with epilepsy, doing yoga may help reduce feelings of stigma about the disease along with reducing seizure frequency and anxiety, according to new research published in the November 8, 2023 ...

When three leading obesity organizations issued guidance recently on the pharmacologic treatment of obesity, they didn’t stop at saying the recommended medications are safe, effective, and appropriate ...

Researchers from Newcastle University have identified a link between reducing the stigma of poverty in schools and the reading and math attainment of pupils. One in three U.K. children are currently ...

People addicted to drugs or alcohol are stigmatized in our society, which can impede their recovery. We cannot readily understand how they are thinking and why they are making the unhealthy choices ...

Although Veterans Day is firmly in the rear view, the difficult and critical work of offering veterans relief from their trauma remains a daily challenge. Reducing post-traumatic stress among military ...

It’s amazing—but understandable to us anthropologists—how little people understand about the basics of their own menstruating bodies. In one recent study of undergraduate students in Australia, only 1 ...