More than three quarters of wounded veterans are dealing with some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Wounded Warrior Project. More than 23,000 injured service members completed the 2015 Wounded Warrior Project Alumni...
The U.S. is grappling with a severe shortage of mental health professionals. But the situation is particularly dire for some minority communities, where barriers of language and culture can make it hard to seek and get help. Most good...
In October a video showing a senior deputy yank a student from her seat and flip her desk at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina went viral on the Internet. This incident gained wide national attention and demonstrates the need for...
We know that young offenders are different from adults and that incarcerating them perpetuates cycles of trauma and inequality that do us all more harm than good. As Congress considers pending juvenile justice reforms, such as the landmark Juvenile...
Putting oneself out of business is generally not sound career advice. But that’s exactly what Kevin Bethel, the deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, said he hopes to do through the department’s school...
Dr. Roberta Miller hits the road at 8 a.m. to see her patients. Many are too old or sick to go to the doctor. So the doctor comes to them. She's put 250,000 miles on her Honda minivan going to their homes in upstate New York. Home visits make a...
Ask Victor Lopez, a 17-year-old transgender male, what it was like when he got his period at the age of 8, and he’ll tell you a wrenching story about locking himself in his room for hours, crying and hiding from his family. Just getting...
Hannah Blomdal stood in her darkened front yard, trying to surmount her fear. Her family’s suburban home looked calm, even bucolic, on the April evening. But the 17-year-old’s thoughts were agitated. A few months earlier, the...
Silvestre Segovia had vowed many times over that he would never return to solitary confinement. Languishing in the vast Texas prison system's solitary confinement wings for more than a decade had exacted a heavy emotional toll. And...
Right now, 62 million girls worldwide are not in school. They’re receiving no formal education at all—no reading, no writing, no math—none of the basic skills they need to provide for themselves and their families, and...
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) young people appear to be less resilient than their older LGBT counterparts, according to a new study at the University of Missouri School of Medicine that explored the role resilience plays in lowering...
Bridgeport is Going Green to Improve Health Three years ago, Angel Torres-Sosa avoided the menacing, vacant lot around the corner from his Bridgeport, Conn., home. The neglected area in the Reservoir neighborhood was smothered with weeds and...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced the eight communities that were selected from more than 340 applicants to receive the 2015 RWJF Culture of Health Prize . Each of the winners will receive a $25,000 cash prize and the...
Just a quick follow-up note to say that the Trigger Points Anthology can now be ordered online. Here's the link ...
I'm Nurse Rona, and I host a show called "About Health" twice a month. You can hear all of the past shows and learn about my guests at http://www.nurserona.com/ . Join me and Dr. Will Courtenay and Niiobli Armah, to discuss the...