Youth Mental Health
- In this cohort of young adults, reducing social media use for one week was associated with reductions in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia; however, the durability of these therapeutic outcomes and their associations with behavior warrant further study, particularly in more diverse populations. Read more here.
Addiction Issues
- Dr. Smita Das often hears the same myth: You can’t get hooked on pot. The misconception has become more widespread as a growing number of states legalize marijuana. Around half now allow recreational use for adults, and 40 states allow medical use. However, “cannabis is definitely something that someone can develop an addiction to,” said Das, an addiction psychiatrist at Stanford University. It’s called cannabis use disorder and it’s on the rise, affecting about 3 in 10 people who use pot, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more here.
Research
- What were the scope, timing, and financial impact of gender-affirming care (GAC) grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health in 2025? In this cross-sectional study, 64.1% of all identified GAC-related grants were terminated over three weeks, resulting in the loss of nearly $22 million in unspent funds. Canceled grants spanned a range of clinical, basic science, and implementation research related to the health effects of GAC or its provision. These terminations represent a politically driven disruption to GAC research, with consequences for scientific advancement and health equity. Read more here.
- In this systematic review and meta-analysis, CBT interventions including a narrative assessment were associated with a reduced risk of suicide attempt, while CBT without this component did not have an association with risk of suicide attempt. Age differences between study populations may partly explain this finding, as interventions in younger populations often show smaller and more inconsistent effect sizes. These results suggest that a narrative assessment may be a simple and effective way to capture the forces that lead to suicide attempts and to direct interventions toward their prevention. Read more here.
Health Insurance Subsidies
- The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies due to expire at the end of next month and new limits on eligibility, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the unannounced plans. The proposal would mark President Donald Trump’s foray into Capitol Hill negotiations over how to address health care premium spikes set to hit Affordable Care Act enrollees if Congress lets the premium subsidies expire. Read more here.
- The White House has postponed the rollout of a new GOP plan on Affordable Care Act subsidies amid pushback from Republicans in Congress. The issue could aggravate already frayed relationships with Hill conservatives who oppose an extension of enhanced tax credits that are due to expire at the end of the year. Some lawmakers were blindsided by reports of a plan to address spiking premiums in ACA markets and calls for a short-term renewal of the aid, MS NOW reported. Trump is still working on a proposal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. Read more here.
- President Donald Trump suggested he was open to extending Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year if it would give Congress time to make changes that he supports to the federally run health care plan. “Some kind of an extension may be necessary to get something else done, because the unaffordable care act has been a disaster,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, referring to Obamacare’s official name, the Affordable Care Act. Read more here.
- The White House’s silence on how its health care plan deals with abortion is causing a headache for Republicans on Capitol Hill. For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamacare is a must-have. But the White House’s decision to leave the issue out of its tentative framework caught Republicans off guard, leaving them in the dark about whether the president would ultimately stake out a position publicly, according to two aides granted anonymity to disclose private discussions. Read more here.
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