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Expert Exchange: KU Professor Utilizes Digital Health Technology to Understand, Influence & Improve Teen Behavior
Technology is exiting a sort of adolescent phase. Many technologies have grown in impressive spurts and occasionally lose their way. Data analytics, IoT Devices, wearables,…
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Weighing Female Patients at Healthcare Visits is Associated with Negative Mental Health, MU Study Finds
A routine trip to the doctor’s office almost always includes being weighed, a request that can be stressful. However, stepping on the scale isn’t always necessary, and as m…
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Children's Mercy Kansas City Opens Youth Clinic to Address Mental Health Care Crisis
The nation’s youth are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. More than 15 million children need mental health services, but only 30-50 percent receive care. In the …
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Study Details How Program at KU School of Medicine-Wichita Helps Doctors Deliver Mental Health Care to Children Across Kansas
Moving knowledge, not patients.
Putting more brains into a child’s case.
They’re not medical descriptions, but they encapsulate the approach of KSKidsMAP, which bring…
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Half of the World Faces Mental Health Disorders
A comprehensive study found that one in two individuals globally will experience a mental health disorder in their lifetime.
Analyzing data from over 150,000 adults acro…
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Expert Exchange: UMKC Professor Utilizes Novel Technology for More Effective Immunotherapy
Bigger is not always better. When fighting cancer, Kun Cheng, PhD, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC), the aim…
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