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Local NewsOctober is Mental Health Awareness MonthOctober is Mental Health Awareness Month—and this Saturday is World Mental Health Day. More than 1 in 5 American adults experience mental illness every single year -- that’s more than 60 million people. 1 in 4 of those people say they cannot get the help they need. On average, people wait 11 years from their first symptoms before they ever receive treatment. One of the biggest factors in mental health is something much simpler than most people realize: Connection. Belonging. Community.1 in 6 people worldwide struggle with loneliness. And research shows that isolation makes mental health significantly worse. That is where Crossroads Clubhouse in Warren comes in. Part of Macomb County Community Mental Health, Crossroads creates a real community for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. A place to belong, to build skills and to do meaningful work. Jennifer Zimmerman, Crossroads’ program director, joined Local 4 Live to talk more about the program. You can watch the full interview in the video at the beginning of this article. Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

It’s that time of year again — and we’re bringing the biggest conversations in women’s health to Los Angeles! Flow Space’s annual Women’s Health Summit is happening next week, bringing together some of the leading experts and voices in women’s health for an afternoon of smart, candid conversations about what it really takes to thrive in midlife. On Thursday, October 15, we’ll take over Penske Media’s beautiful rooftop in Sawtelle for a day packed with the topics everyone is talking about: wearable health tracking, peptides and GLP-1s, psychedelics, and the complexities of managing menopause during breast cancer treatment.

Landry Kalembo in front of the McMaster University Health Sciences building in Hamilton, Ontario. Landry Kalembo’s experience of displacement is driving him to ask whose stories are captured in health research, and what happens when they aren’t.

With back-to-school routines now in full swing, it’s a great time to remember good oral health practices for the whole family. Good oral health is an important part of a child’s overall health and well-being. Healthy teeth and gums can help children eat, speak, learn and feel their best every day.

American healthcare, the priciest healthcare system in the world, is set to get even more expensiveIn the coming weeks, the roughly 160 million Americans who get health insurance through work will log into their benefits portals and pick a plan for 2027. Even for people used to rising healthcare costs, what they see may come as a shock. Employer health plan costs are projected to rise 8 to 10% next year, the largest increase in more than 20 years and double the average increase of the 2010s. This spike is just the second in a series of three successive shocks to healthcare costs and coverage. The first came in January 2026, when the 24.3 million ACA Marketplace enrollees saw their after-subsidy premiums rise by an average of 114%. The second is the sharp increase in premiums and out-of-pocket costs for those who get insurance at work, the third year in a row of elevated increases. The third comes next January, when Medicaid work-reporting requirements take effect, which CBO projects will eventually push nearly 6 million people out of coverage. History suggests that the American political system makes a bold attempt to reform healthcare about once a generation.

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Ottawa Public Health is warning that residents who visited a number of restaurants and grocery stores last week may have been exposed to the measles virus. The public health agency says it is investigating confirmed measles infections in two Ottawa residents with known exposure to measles outside Ontario. At this time, OPH says, risk to the general population remains low. The announcement contains a list of eight locations with corresponding dates and times where people may have been exposed to the highly contagious respiratory infection:Tim Hortons at 3224 Hawthorne Rd. When: Thursday, Oct. 1 between 5:30 and 8 p.m. Monitor until Thursday, Oct. 22Your Independent Grocer at 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. When: Friday, Oct. 2 between 3:15 and 5:45 p.m. Monitor until Friday, Oct. 23Rexall Drugstore at 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. When: Friday, Oct. 2 between 3:45 and 6 p.m. Monitor until Friday, Oct. 23Metro Supermarket at 2261 Walkley Rd. When: Friday, Oct. 2 between 4 and 6:15 p.m. Monitor until Friday, Oct. 23Subway at 3190 Hawthorne Rd. When: Friday, Oct. 2 between 5:30 and 8 p.m. Monitor until Friday, Oct. 23McDonald's at 1796 St. Laurent Blvd. When: Friday, Oct. 2 between 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.

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What you need to know: First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, in patronage of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, convened global scientists, academicians, doctors, faith leaders, state officials, and advocates for a two-day summit exploring opportunities to advance social connection and belonging in a time of uncertainty and division. VATICAN CITY – First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, in patronage of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), co-hosted a two-day international summit at the historic Casina Pio IV at the Vatican last week. The summit brought together cross-sector leaders to confront the growing global crisis of social disconnection, advance a shared agenda to treat social health with the same urgency as physical and mental health, and share all of the programs that California and other communities across the world have modeled to answer this call.

Renfrew County and District Health Unit is offering RSV immunization for infants and high-risk children who qualify and encouraging parents to take advantage by booking an appointment. Immunization is offered at the health unit from Oct. 21 and continues into March for RSV season.

More than one in five adults in the US experience mental illness each year, according to data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. And more than one in seven young people ages 6–17 experience a mental health disorder, with 50 percent of all mental illness occurring throughout one’s lifetime beginning by age 14 and 75 percent by age 24. Psychologists have long espoused that how parents raise their children during their early years of life has a huge impact on their mental health and happiness as they grow up. Something as simple as praising or scolding a child can be deeply internalized and could determine whether or not that child struggles with depression, anxiety, or substance use as a teenager or young adult.

alf the world’s population spends less than five minutes a year with a doctor, on average. Daniella Foster of Bayer shared that striking figure during a Diplomatic Courier panel at the SDG Media Zone, noting that’s hardly enough time for introductions. Beyond these brief encounters, most people manage their health at home, in the community, or not at all. The panel featuring Foster and Valérie Boulet of the WHO Foundation was titled “Advancing Healthier Futures: The Health Systems We Haven't Built Yet,” and focused on the role of self-care. Pamela Kelley Lauder moderated. Foster and Valerie Boulet began from the same diagnosis. Boulet cited that an estimated 4.6 billion people who still lack full coverage of essential health services and a projected global shortfall of roughly 10 million health workers by 2030. Health systems cannot hire their way out of numbers like these. Together, the two speakers explained how evidence-based self-care is becoming a structural part of how healthcare is delivered. Boulet was careful to clarify what self-care means in this context. It goes well beyond eating better and making sure to exercise.

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada (9 October 2026) – When governance collapses in war, the basic checks on antibiotic use, water quality and infection control collapse with it. A new publication from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and the Geneva Water Hub warns that these are the conditions under which antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spreads fastest and furthest, with water carrying resistant bacteria between hospitals, communities and farms, and across national boundaries. The Policy Brief, Antimicrobial Resistance in Water Systems: A One Health Imperative in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings, examines how resistant bacteria, resistance genes and antibiotic residues circulate through water across human, animal and environmental interfaces. Written for decision makers in the water, health and humanitarian sectors, the brief sets out practical actions for governments, donors and humanitarian agencies, including in settings where state systems are absent or severely weakened.