mental health

EU threatens to shut down popular app that pays users to watch videos

April 24, 2024Arts, Culture & Media

The European Commission is calling the new TikTok Lite app “toxic as cigarettes.” It’s a spin-off from the makers of the original TikTok, that pays people to watch videos. The EC says it was launched without regard for risks of addiction, or safeguards against children using it. Now they’re threatening to suspend it.

The world is 4 million teachers short. Here’s how to solve that.

May 6, 2015Development

In Arizona’s wake, gun control for the mentally ill?

July 4, 2014Conflict & Justice

Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN

August 14, 2013Global Politics

The Army’s New Approach to Mental Health

August 14, 2013Health & Medicine

Ugandans with Mental Illness Learn to Fit In

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

In developing countries, even when people with mental illness receive medical treatment, they often have trouble fitting in. A program in Uganda aims to change that by training people with mental illness to earn a livelihood. Joanne Silberner reports.

Emotional depression, economic recession

August 14, 2013Health & Medicine

The World Health Organization said last week that within the next 20 years, depression will become the largest health burden on society. But treatment for it is often underfunded, despite drastically affecting productivity in many countries.

Jailed Journalists: The Road to Recovery

August 14, 2013Health & Medicine

The road to recovery has begun for American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The Takeaway speaks to Yael Danieli, a clinical psychologist and trauma specialist, and Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto psychiatry professor.