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A smartphone-based Chinese culture-adapted digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (DCBT-I) appears beneficial, producing improvements in the severity of insomnia as compared with sleep education, according to a study.

Short nighttime sleepers are at higher risks of long COVID, depression and cardiovascular (CV) diseases than normal sleepers, according to three recent studies by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Long-term treatment with methylphenidate does not increase risks of growth impairment and psychiatric or neurological adverse events (AEs) in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the international ADDUCE study co-led by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the University of Melbourne.

Women with HIV who use antiretroviral therapy (ART) combinations such as tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) with a cobicistat-boosted integrase inhibitor (INSTI) or protease inhibitor (PI) appear to frequently show somatic depressive symptoms, according to data from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) presented at CROI 2023.

Mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) appear beneficial for prostate cancer survivors and their partners who are dealing with sexual dysfunction, a study has shown.