Flu season is winding down in Australia and it’s been the worst one in years. Public health officials fear it will be equally severe when it reaches the United states.
“We watch all of the Southern Hemisphere countries very closely, hoping that we get some sort of insight, but it’s not perfect by any means,” Dr. Alicia Fry, chief of the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told NBC News.
During her ER visit, all [Pell] received was the ice pack and the bandage. That’s it. She wasn’t treated in any other way. Doctors made no diagnosis. And she made sure that no one touched her before she knew if they were in network or not.
Pell received a bill for $5,751.
Scientists at University College London have conducted an umbrella review, evaluating pre-existing research, and concluded that there is little support for the idea that depression is related to abnormally low levels of serotonin.
Sahanika Ratnayake at Slate writes:
It’s true that the authors of the study are controversial figures, vocal to sometimes vituperative critics of the mental health status quo, leaving heated debates in their wake with each new publication. But the authors’ conclusion has been an open secret within mental health circles for at least a decade. The very public dispelling of this “serotonin model” has also removed a key plank in the widely believed but oversimplified myth of mental illness being caused by a “chemical imbalance.”