Too much mental health awareness, saving cancer patients from financial toxicity, and more

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By Torie Bosch Editor, First Opinion

This week at First Opinion: Could mental health awareness campaigns for teens be making things worse? Academic psychologist Lucy Foulkes explains why she's researching that question. Ezekiel J. Emanuel proposes a solution to the financial toxicity that plagues cancer patients. "Screen-and-refer" systems intended to help people with social needs are backfiring. And much more! Have an opinion for or on First Opinion? Email me: first.opinion@statnews.com.

Adobe What if we're talking about teens' mental health too much? As rates of mental health problems continue to swell, it's time to at least start asking these difficult questions. By Lucy Foulkes Cancer patients shouldn't be responsible for out-of-pocket costs Private insurance companies and Medicare should eliminate any deductibles, copayments, and other types of cost sharing for cancer patients. By Ezekiel J. Emanuel How 'screen and refer' systems fail to help patients Hospitals brag about systems to help patients access food, domestic violence resources, and more. But research shows they're not working. By Torie Bosch Adobe Checklists to screen for patients' social needs aren't helping Hospitals like to brag about systems intended to identify patients who need help. But the approach isn't working. By Sanjay Basu Adopting the term 'preaddiction' would be a serious mistake Instead of creating new labels, it would be more effective to take a public health approach to conceptualizing addiction. By Cassandra L. Boness STAT+ | Will AI soon diagnose politicians' mental health conditions from afar? The author of "Listening to Prozac" on Donald Trump, the Goldwater Rule, and the future of diagnosing mental illness. By Peter D. Kramer OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images STAT+ | Three ways to test medical AI for safety The most urgent question for generative AI in medicine is: How do we test this so we can start using it as safely as possible? By Isaac S. Kohane Opportunistic CT: There's gold in them there images Opportunistic CT can identify people at risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, and more while AI reduces the risk of "incidentalomas." By Miriam A. Bredella and Robert M. Wachter STAT+ | An overlooked way to make participants in clinical trials look more like America About 30 million Americans, 59% of whom are members of racial and ethnic subgroups, receive care in a group of safety-net clinics. By Gloria Coronado and Leslie Bienen

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