Latest in mental healthThe Philippines faces a unique triple burden of disease that requires the health system to simultaneously address lifestyle illnesses, lingering infectious diseases, and modern-society conditions including mental health problems, newly appointed Health Secretary Edwin Mercado said Saturday.…
Most of us spend our lives chasing happiness without ever stopping to ask what the science actually says about how to find it. Fortunately, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject has been paying close attention — and the answers, while sometimes surprising, are well within reach for…
Researchers say music does more than distract patients from pain. It may actually change how the brain processes it. Studies have shown that listening to preferred music can dull pain more effectively than listening to speech or podcasts. “Music is a distractor. It draws your focus away from the…
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