Wellness Apps for Schizophrenia
Symptoms of schizophrenia like hallucinations and paranoia can usually be improved with drugs and therapy. But things like anxiety, trouble with focus, and lack of motivation may not be as easy to treat.
“People with schizophrenia often find it hard to remember to do things like take their medication, or struggle to eat right or get regular physical activity,” says John Torous, MD, a Harvard psychiatrist and director of the Digital Psychiatry Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. As a result, their symptoms may get worse, and they end up in a vicious cycle that’s hard to break.
As public health officials and scientists grapple with new virus variants, manufacturers of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate, this one a single dose, reported Friday that it was 66 percent effective overall in preventing moderate to severe COVID-19 cases 28 days after vaccination.
Johnson & Johnson simultaneously announced plans to seek emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the U.S. in early February and said that pending its approval, it anticipates a manufacturing timeline that will enable it to meet its 2021 supply commitments signed with governments and global organizations.
The findings, based on Phase 3 clinical trials conducted in eight countries across three continents, applied to all participants from different geographies and included those infected with an emerging viral variant, according to Johnson & Johnson.
Updated on January 19, 2021 at 6:32 pm
NBC10 Boston
More than a dozen sites are being illuminated in Boston Tuesday evening in solidarity with cities across the nation memorializing the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced that it would host the COVID-19 Memorial in honor of those who have died from the coronavirus the day before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office.
The committee invited cities and towns around the country to light up their buildings and ring church bells at 5:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 19 in a national moment of unity and remembrance. A ceremony was held at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, where Biden delivered his final address as president-elect.