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Loading video... VIDEO: A new GeneSight Mental Health Monitor national survey finds 83 percent of those diagnosed with depression say life would be easier if others could understand what they're going through. Yet,... view more  Credit: GeneSight Mental Health Monitor In a new nationwide poll, the GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor found that 83% of people with depression agree that life would be easier if others could understand their depression. Yet, most people who have not experienced depression may not be able to understand the challenges, including its treatment. "Depression is o...

Addiction recovery brochures. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Experts fear that the isolation and trauma of the pandemic will only worsen the spread and stigma of substance use disorders and addiction. But in the Veterans Affairs health care system, psychologists are using a new intervention that has had great success in treating one of the most difficult addictions to break: methamphetamine. Host Tonya Mosley speaks with Dominick DePhilippis, a clinical psychologist with the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. This segment aired on April 23, 2021.

State of Our City | Feb. 18-25 Some bite-sized morsels of news you may have missed in other places. Cupid’s…shot? More than 1,800 veterans got a little something special for Valentine’s Day when they received their second and final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center on Sunday. The hospital has been consistently vaccinating eligible veterans since mid-December. Maybe somebody in City Hall should take a page from the VA’s playbook.  Ring the alarm  A group calling themselves Stop Gun Violence Philly delivered a ...

The Victor J. Saracini Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Horsham announced Tuesday that it will be offering the COVID-19 vaccine through the end of this week. The clinic, located at 433 Caredean Drive in Horsham, will provide vaccines for those with appointments only between 4 and 7 p.m. through Friday and all day Saturday, the release states. Veterans must be enrolled in VA Healthcare to be eligible and they must be either 75 years or older or 65 years old or older with comorbidity. "You have to be be registered with the VA for benefits," a representative from the clinic...

Veterans from N.J. to get COVID vaccine at pop-up clinics Updated Jan 29, 2021; That’s why a pair of South Jersey pop-up clinics are being set up this weekend to vaccinate eligible veterans. The two clinics, one in Runnemede in Camden County and the other in Rio Grande in Cape May County, seek to vaccinate about 500 veterans each on Saturday. “We realize that 588 doses is not an enormous number, but for those veterans and their families, it has a huge impact,” Camden County Commissioner Melinda Kane, liaison to the Office of Veterans Affairs, told NJ Advance Media. Camden County is ac...