Innovation in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder will not solve the care gap
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains one of psychiatry’s most disabling conditions, affecting about 1-2% of the population. People with OCD have an 82% increase in all cause mortality compared with unnafected matched people from the general population, with suicide being a major contributor.
The patients who watched the personalized AI avatar videos showed better understanding of their treatment plan, a greater ability to engage with health care decisions, and reduced stress compared to those who watched the standard educational video.
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Once cancer has begun to spread within the body (metastasise) it generally becomes harder to treat and survival rates are lower. The new research focuses on patients with oligometastatic breast cancer, meaning a few small secondary tumors have broken away…