Stanford psychiatry resident Nathaniel Morris describes what it’s like to treat patients in the hospital after an attempted suicide. The post On caring for suicidal patients: A psychiatrist reflects appeared first on Scope.

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Older people are more susceptible to infection, cancer, and autoimmunity than younger people. This may be the result of our immune cells' receiving increasingly random marching orders as we age. The post Older people’s immune cells get fuzzier marching orders than those of younger people appeared first on Scope.