The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in...
The patient was dying and she knew it. In her mid-50s, she had been battling breast cancer for years, but it had spread to her bones, causing unrelenting pain that required hospitalization. Jeremy Force, a first-year oncology fellow at Duke University...
Many of us are walking around all the time in a fog caused by "social jetlag." That's what happens when we lose sleep because our daily schedules don't match our bodies' natural rhythms. The condition can be a particular problem for shift...
Jane Stevens, Dr. van der Kolk and Dr. Covington “I thought it was hyperbole,” said one participant, “’The Titans of Trauma’, but the speakers were phenomenal.” Admittedly, we were a few titans short...
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Dr. Scott Grant, a resident at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona, and Dr. Sara Bode, director of community pediatrics at the hospital, provided an overview of ACEs on Tuesday, March 10. The first 28 minutes of this video show...
When offenders leave prison after having served their sentence, the hope is that they will have learned from the experience and make a serious effort to reintegrate into the community. Ideally, they will return to their families and finish...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience trauma at higher rates than their straight peers. Common traumas experienced by these youth include bullying, harassment, traumatic loss, intimate partner...
How the School Nutrition Association became an ally of what you might call the “let them eat cake” forces is a long story. What matters is that if, like the association, you’re taking a stand against the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free...
The boy was abducted by the Lord's Liberation Army to serve as a child soldier when he was 7. He had been forced to kill his uncle with a machete. At 14, he escaped and made his way back to his parents. But he wasn't himself. He couldn't sleep...
The good news from last week's job report is that the U.S. unemployment rate—now at 5.5 percent—is at the lowest level since May 2008. (Some optimistic forecasters are even predicting that it might continue to fall to below 4...
New York is expanding its efforts to make sure inmates who receive mental health treatment in prison aren't cut off from such care when they are released. Discharge planning that included medication, enrollment in Medicaid and initial clinic...
The business secretary, Vince Cable , has spoken of the postnatal depression suffered by his mother, on the eve of a speech in which he will emphasise the importance of further educational opportunities for people with mental health...
It’s a well-known fact at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco that the toughest time to teach is right after lunch. Kids are tired, and trouble that starts at lunch can sometimes carry into the classroom....
This story was written for the series, "Being 12: The Year Everything Changes," from member station WNYC. If adolescence has a poster child, it's a teenager. In a car. Smoking, drinking, and driving badly while also, somehow, having sex in the...