The Latest Breaking News on Mental health

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) issued a positive opinion on Friday recommending Eli Lilly and Co.’s (NYSE:LLY) donanemab for early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease in adults with confirmed amyloid pathology who are apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE4) heterozygotes or non-carriers.

A phobia of flying is common – one reader reveals how her fear affected her, and how she overcame it

Lydia Bogert's phobia became so extreme she developed an eating disorder

In the UK an estimated 1.1million young people between the ages of 11 and 17 vape and 100,000 smoke, according to Action on Smoking and Health

Is it depression or low mood? Worrying or anxiety? Psychotherapist Tanith Carey explains how to tell the difference and why it’s so important

The Royal College of Psychiatrists warned the conditions can be ‘truly devastating’ if left untreated.

Target easier to achieve than 10,000 steps and linked to 37% reduction in cancer deaths

A child has died from a brain-eating amoeba at Prisma Health Children's Hospital – Midlands in South Carolina.

Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne died this week at 76, about five years after announcing he had Parkinson’s disease

I was stuck in a job that made me miserable – then my friend suggested I go to a yoga class. When we played a kids’ game, the dark clouds parted and my life took a radical turn

Prof Henry Brodaty of UNSW says managing risk factors such as diet and anxiety is a cost-effective way of curbing the disease