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Released: 9-Dec-2016 4:05 PM EST
WashU Expert: 21st Century Cures Act Good Start, Should Focus More on Immediate Needs
Washington University in St. Louis

The newly passed 21st Century Cures Act  awaiting President Obama’s signature will provide necessary funding to help those with mental illnesses, but a mental health expert at Washington University in St. Louis says it should focus more on mental health outcomes of those suffering right now.“Over 40 million Americans suffer from a mental health condition at any given time,” said Ryan Lindsay, associate professor of practice and chair of the mental health concentration at the Brown School.

Released: 9-Dec-2016 1:35 PM EST
WashU Expert: Economic stress played role in increasing U.S. death rate
Washington University in St. Louis

Greater stress and anxiety resulting from economic insecurity may be at least partly to blame for the U.S. death rate that the government announced Dec. 8 has increased for the first time in a decade, says an expert on poverty and inequality at Washington University in St. Louis.“For the first time since 1993, the overall life-expectancy rate in the United States last year actually went down, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” said Mark Rank, the Herbert S.



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