Let no educator, parent or advocate ever say parents don’t care about how their children do in school. Most really do, and given the right chance, will do all they can to help. Here in the heart of the nation’s poorest region, in a...
This patient isn’t usually mine, but today I’m covering for my partner in our family-practice office, so he has been slipped into my schedule. Reading his chart, I have an ominous feeling that this visit won’t be simple. A tall,...
Dr. Amit Sood, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and founder of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing , narrates this animation, which he produced after becoming frustrated with how difficult it was to meditate. After he...
For many years, if a public school district wanted to serve students apples or milk from local farmers, it could face all kinds of hurdles. Schools were locked into strict contracts with distributors, few of whom saw any reason to start...
Ella Barnes-Williams is dealing with a lot right now. For starters, her government-subsidized house in Northeast Washington, D.C., leaks when it rains. She points at a big brown splotch on the ceiling. "It's like mold, mold, mold all over," she...
AUSTIN - Up to 80 percent of juvenile offenders sent to state lockups could instead be held in regional treatment programs under a bill filed Friday, a move that could significantly downsize the state’s long-troubled youth corrections...
Although more Americans have health insurance coverage, 25 percent of non-elderly Americans don’t have enough liquid assets to cover the deductible on their health insurance plan, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family...
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/03/child_abuse_a_public_health_ep.html GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Genesee County had nearly 2,000 child abuse victims in 2013. The community needs to do better and needs to do more, local...
When it comes to the subject of domestic abuse, accounts of crime and violence usually take center stage. But another element that's not as often discussed are the financial losses suffered by the victims of domestic violence. It's estimated...
It has been estimated that each year, over one million children in the United States are misdiagnosed with a mental illness that could be better explained by trauma. That’s a lot of children inaccurately being labeled with a mental illness. The...
What is trauma? If I were to quiz you on trauma would you know how to define it? You might say something like trauma is a negative experience that you cannot forget or move past. I would give you an A+ but also challenge you to consider...
Why do sex workers do the kind of work they do? A recent study conducted by the University of Leeds funded by the Wellcome Trust and in partnership with National Ugly Mugs—a U.K. sex worker-rights group—asked sex workers themselves...
Almost seven years ago, a troubled 11-year-old girl reported that she had been raped — twice — in her Northwest Washington neighborhood. Despite medical evidence of sexual assault, records show that no suspects were arrested and...
The widely reported case of a 27-year-old naked and unarmed veteran shot dead by an Atlanta-area police officer on Monday is raising questions about how law enforcement is trained to deal with suspects who may be suffering from mental illness....
A month ago, Massachusetts became one of the only governments in the world to recognize that its citizens have a basic human right to fresh air — especially while undergoing treatment for a mental illness. Outgoing Governor Deval Patrick...