Health-care professionals are questioning the efficacy of private mental health and addictions care in Alberta due to the lack of public data. In June, the Alberta government published data on how many people accessed the Opioid Dependency Program (ODP), a program managed by the Alberta Health Service that provides treatment to people suffering from opioid … Read more
The mental-health app Woebot launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and new: a way for people to get on-demand mental-health support in the form of a responsive, empathic, AI-powered chatbot. Users found that the … Read more
Mumbai, India – Had it not been for his grandfather, Ganesh Kale might have been dead today. In January this year, the 40-year-old woke at 6am in his remote village in India’s western state of Maharashtra and quietly walked to his 2-hectare (5-acre) farm – on which the millet crop was about to be harvested … Read more