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However, patients with bipolar disorder can experience side effects such as mania or mixed symptoms from this type of depression treatment. (Photo: Pixabay)

Depression remains linked to higher risk of early deaths

Mental illness has also been linked with poorer diet, lack of exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption.

24 Oct 2017 3:15 AM GMT

Located in Toronto, the restaurant called Junes on Tuesday was serving its first meals prepared by HIV-positive cooks. (Photo: Twitter/BakedAlaska)

Canadian restaurant run by HIV-positive staff aims to smash stigma

Wearing aprons printed with such messages as Kiss the HIV+ cook and I got HIV from pasta.

15 Nov 2017 9:58 AM GMT

The MDACS has informed all blood banks in the city that all blood donors who have tested positive for HIV have to regularly visit these centres for further treatment.

Link found between stigma, cognitive performance in people with HIV

Researchers found that HIV-related stigma had direct effects on cognitive test performance and anxiety.

30 Nov 2018 3:15 AM GMT

The findings indicate that heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders are the most important risk factors for dementia. (Photo: Pixabay)

Does alcohol cause dementia?

The findings from the study are published in the journal Lancet Public Health.

16 April 2018 8:30 AM GMT

US president Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. (AFP)

After the 'Chinese virus' jibe, Trump has a 'good conversation' with...

'Much respect', tweets the US president after Beijing protests stigmatisation

27 March 2020 1:49 PM GMT

A woman (C) speaks on her phone on a bus before being taken to a quarantine facility after arriving from Mumbai. (AFP)

Mumbai returnee tag stigmatises guest workers

Villagers are scared that guest workers returned from places with high number of corona positives will spread the virus

27 May 2020 6:28 AM GMT

A medic uses a thermal screening device on a boy during a door-to-door survey to detect COVID-19 cases in Nagaon district in Assam. (PTI)

Medics around the world face hostility over virus stigma

In countries like India, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere, doctors and nurses are intimidated and treated like pariahs...

16 May 2020 10:26 AM GMT

The challenge is to bring awareness that dementia is not a normal part of ageing, and if and when individuals and families are affected by it, there are ways to deal and cope with it provided guidance and support is sought from those experienced in dealing with it.

Let's challenge the stigma surrounding Alzheimer's

Dementia should not be ignored, especially by family members, as it can have effects which can become unmanageable if...

16 Sep 2018 6:59 PM GMT