It’s been covered by everyone from Walk Off The Earth to babies. It’s spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s arguably one of the most positive tracks of 2014. It’s now 2015, and it’s showing no signs of...
Last year, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly did a segment on poverty where he asserted that “poverty will not change until personal behavior does,” explaining that anti-poverty work will never overcome “addictive behavior,...
Childbearing gets a little more bearable for working women this year, with various new state and city policies to accommodate the needs of pregnant and parenting workers. In several states, including Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota and West...
The death rates for eight of the 10 leading causes of death have decreased significantly, but not for the tenth leading cause — suicide. The national suicide rate has increased to 12.6 suicide deaths per 100,000 and for ages 18 to 35...
he woman had dropped out of the weight-loss study. So had a frustratingly high number of other patients, most of whom seemed to be succeeding at losing weight before quitting. This confused Vincent J. Felitti, the doctor leading the 1980s...
I am a doctoral student in health education at Teachers College, Columbia University. I just finished collecting qualitative data for my dissertation on the influence of ACEs on self-management of type-2 diabetes in adults. I am interested in...
NIH-funded researchers have discovered that an old fear memory is recalled by a separate brain pathway from the one originally used to recall it when it was fresh. Uncovering new pathways for old memories could change scientists’ view of...
They're holding open office hours this Friday: The National Council’s 2015 Trauma-informed Care Learning Community connects you with trauma experts and agencies like yours to make sure you are offering quality...
She was born to an incarcerated mother. She was repeatedly abused by relatives with whom she spent much of her early life. By the time she turned 10, she had been sexually abused by an older brother, a pimp, who forced her into prostitution....
With youth crime rates and numbers of incarcerated youths declining, now is the ideal time to review how juvenile incarceration meets the needs of youths, their families and society. California is in the process of allocating $80 million in...
There's new scrutiny this year on a federal program that's supposed to protect juveniles in the criminal justice system. Senate lawmakers want to pass a bill that would ensure young people are not locked up alongside adult offenders — and...
It's been two and a half years since the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting in which James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Jury selection for the 2012 incident is scheduled to start Tuesday. One of the...
Mental health professionals: Do you feel overwhelmed by the demands of your job? Do regulations, paperwork, lack of time and inadequate training get in the way of your providing the excellent treatment you dream of? Do you wish your team...
Among deployed and non-deployed active duty Veterans who served during the Iraq or Afghanistan wars between 2001 and 2007, the rate of suicide was greatest the first three years after leaving service, according to a recent study. Compared to the...
Regular physical activity improves brain function even in young adults considered in their prime and at the height of cognitive ability, according to a new University of Otago study. A body of research already exists showing aerobic exercise...