<span itemprop="author">Mohammed Umer Waris, MD

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Regulating social media’s effects on mental health

There can be no denying that, since its mass-scale introduction, social media has encompassed more and more of our lives, particularly in the lives of young people. As of 2022, among teens ages 13 to 17 years old, 95 percent report using social media, …

Deaths of despair: an urgent call for a collective response to the crisis in U.S. life expectancy

Some grim news has emerged revealing the sad decline in the health of the United States. America saw its most significant 2-year fall in life expectancy, 2.7 years, in almost 100 years. This has led to U.S. life expectancy being at its lowest since the…