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  • Tackling the root cause of construction’s mental health
    on June 16, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    University of Warwick researchers have shaped a new Mental Health Joint Code of Practice, launched by the Construction Leadership Council, that presents solutions to poor mental health in construction, which is one of the most significant risks facing the construction industry. The Office for National Statistics says the suicide rate for men in U.K. construction is nearly four times the national average. Yet mental health harm is not inevitable; it is the result of decision-making around how construction work is designed, planned and led.

  • Three men’s health drugs that were originally designed for a different purpose
    on June 16, 2026 at 3:40 pm

    Many medicines begin life with one purpose and end up proving useful for a completely different reason.

  • Depression may rewire how kids pay attention to emotional faces
    on June 16, 2026 at 3:40 pm

    A smile. A frown. The faces a child pays closer attention to might offer insight into their mental health. Depression may shape how much children pay attention to emotional expressions—sad or happy faces—and those changes appear to depend on whether the child has a family history of depression, according to a first-of-its-kind study from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

  • Major sporting events could offer a public health role for nursing students
    on June 16, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    As Toronto hosts the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the city is welcoming large crowds, international visitors and volunteers into stadiums, transit hubs, fan spaces and public areas. For many people, the World Cup is about soccer, national pride and global celebration. But for host cities, it’s also a public health event.

  • Ultra-rare gene variant appears as schizophrenia or autism in one island family
    on June 16, 2026 at 3:00 pm

    For most of a century, psychiatry has kept its disorders in separate rooms. Schizophrenia in one. Bipolar disorder in another. Autism somewhere down a different corridor entirely. The arrangement was orderly, and it organized clinics and insurance codes and the words that families carried home from the appointment. It was also, as anyone who ever sat with real patients understood, a little bit of a fiction at the edges. The diagnoses were tidy. The family histories were not.