Access to mental health care for teens improving, but less for communities with disparities

Teens in the U.S. have more availability of mental health care than they did two years ago, but access is not equal in all communities, new research suggests. A five year study gauged opportunities for children and teens at the local level in communities across the U.S. surveying over 2,000 adults across the U.S. who work and/or volunteer on behalf of children and teens.
SOURCE: Children’s Health News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.

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Calorie-Counting Apps May Not Help You Lose Weight

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May 28, 2015
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MyFitnessPal is a popular phone app that reveals the number of calories in a serving of any of the 5 million foods whose vital statistics are stored in database. When Randy Dotinga wrote about a study focusing on the app, he noted that the study “doesn’t conclusively debunk” the app, but that it wasn’t clear if the app actually helped anyone lose weight. The interesting thing is that the study author was Dr. Brian Yoshio Laing, who did and still does recommend MyFitnessPal to his patients. Thoughts on this could go either way. As a general rule, it isn’t considered kosher for anyone other than an app’s developers to work on a study of a product or process. Once the thing is out in the world