In recent years, life expectancy in the US has been dropping. A significant contributor to that drop has been deaths of despair. Drug overdoses and suicides have increased in tandem with the opioid crisis, and the outcome is shorter...

A MAN who tried to take his own life has finally found recovery after battling depression for years without a diagnosis, beginning his own mental health charity in the process. For Pat Lawson, growing up with depression wasn’t something...

Professor Nock received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University (2003) and completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center (2003). Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the...

Let's be honest. The real controversy around the issue of guns is, what might we do about it? It's the potential firearms policy changes that make people squirrelly. But guns have been regulated in the United States, we can see what...

Penis size and Suicide. Not two topics that normally go together. This is Healthcare Triage News. How big is the average penis?

When Aaron was an intern, or a first-year doctor in training, he knew something was wrong with him. He had trouble sleeping. He had difficulty feeling joy. He was prone to crying at inopportune times. Even worse, he had trouble...

A recent study looked into ketamine, noted animal sedative and party depressant, as a short-term treatment for severe, emergency room level depression. While it can help people who are suffering from suicidal ideation, it is a short term...

Healthcare Triage often notes that lots of health metrics are improving in the US. But that is not the case with life expectancy. Life span is decreasing, and the losses are not equally distributed. The lives of the poor are getting...

In this video, we discuss the clinical screen for depression and for suicide along with important risk factors and red flags.

We continue our special look at guns and public health in the United States. This week, we're looking at how easily accessible firearms complicate the suicide rate in the United States. While people have always committed suicide, guns...

One of the things that baffles me about people is how they completely misunderstand risk. Lots of my friends panic about things that have no real chance of killing them, but ignore the things that will. This can lead us to make...

Penicillin: Mechanism of Inhibition of Transpeptidase

After watching this lesson, you will be able to support your discussion of Hamlet’s themes with detailed textual analysis! This lesson unpacks the most famous and significant quotes uttered by Hamlet, the main character. These quotes...

In response to the popular, yet controversial Netflix show "13 Reasons Why," one school began sharing some personal stories from students struggling with suicidal thoughts. Instead of sharing the reasons why someone might make the choice...

Sanaz Fotouhi was born in Iran soon after the revolution, during the Iran-Iraq war. Her father’s job as a banker took her and her family to many countries before she landed in Australia.She holds a PhD in Literature from the University...

When Sholem Aleichem published the sixth of his Tevye stories, Jews in Eastern Europe were in dire straits. Violence against Jews was escalating, and pogroms led to a large, fleeing refugee population. During this time—1906-1907—Jewish...

At least 95 people were killed and 150 others wounded as a bomb was detonated by IS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group, at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport last Thursday, according to the BBC.

Students can read about the causes of depression and the therapies for its treatment. But what’s it actually like to suffer from depression? This short film looks at one woman’s experience of depression: the fatigue, the feeling of being...

The attack seems to be part of a shadow war between Iran and Israel, in which both sides use clandestine strikes against each other’s commercial and military ships.

In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Tony Robbins and Joe Berlinger about their new documentary film, "Tony Robbins: I'm Not Your Guru." The film captures the transformative experience of attending one of Tony Robbins' seminars and...

Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores influence of religion in Hamlet. See how Shakespeare uses the spiritual confusion of the play to ask us questions about good and evil, and the way we live our lives.

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Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores an overarching theme in Hamlet: death and mortality. Consider for yourself Shakespeare’s provocative questions about our understanding of death, and the way it can affect...

Othello, the timeless battle of good versus evil. The sinister Iago is pitted against Othello, a man of honor. Othello learns that Desdemona had not been unfaithful, he mourns his dead wife and stabs himself. This video is part 9 of the...

This episode is in response to the measles controversy, we discuss and highlight the re-emergence of Measles, as well as learning more about the history and implications of the illness