Â鶹ŮÓÅ

Amid an enormous societal push to destigmatize mental illness and encourage more conversation about emotions, young people have been flooded with mental health information on social media and elsewhere. But much of it is unreliable and counterproductive. (Amanda Su and Adam Westbrook, 5/14)

Behavioral health care and primary care are among the most important medical specialties to keep patients healthy and avoid exacerbating illnesses. Yet both are in crisis. It is difficult to find a primary care doctor. According to data from Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and the Center for Health Information and Analysis’s primary care survey, in 2021 more than one-third of residents reported difficulty obtaining necessary health care in the prior 12 months. (5/12)

One study of children with achondroplasia found that 100 percent of them commando crawled when they first started crawling. As a parent, I didn’t know what to think. I felt more than a little scared, and I had no idea what to do. Developmental milestones, like crawling, seemed so straightforward—but only as long as my son was passing them. Did my son absolutely have achondroplasia? (Chris Sheldrick, 5/13)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the long-awaited final rule on nursing home staffing standards last month. There is good news: nursing homes are now required to have a registered nurse on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is a significant improvement providing clinical and leadership expertise around the clock. (Elizabeth Halifax and Lori Smetanka, 5/13)

Until recently, getting an MRI meant traveling to the hospital. But a new generation of more affordable and highly portable MRI (pMRI) devices are rapidly reshaping neuroimaging research and clinical care. The scanner will now come to you. That means the time is ripe for a related innovation: neuroimaging counseling. (Nancy Lu, Sumita Strander and Francis X. Shen, 5/14)