Thea James, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine, and president of the medical and dental faculty. She is also the co-founder and director of the Violence...
Few phrases turn me off as quickly as networking lunch. That’s only possibly outdone by networking foodless event. So it was strange that Tuesday morning as the networking lunch grew closer, and I had no exit strategy, I felt fine. I...
When Hind Benjelloun, a District of Columbia-based crisis psychiatrist with InSight Telepsychiatry, works an overnight shift, there’s never a dull moment. Even when the emergency room empties out, Benjelloun still has patients waiting for...
A new study published in The Lancet outlines a programme for preventing suicidality among young people. The results provide strong endorsement for a method whereby school students learn to discover signs of mental ill-health in themselves and...
A 10-year restorative justice experiment in city schools that uses a carrot instead of a stick on students with discipline issues will be expanded to all 86 schools in five years, officials announced Wednesday. At the 27 schools that now use...
The start of 2015 meant rising salaries for minimum-wage workers in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Workers in New York got their raise a day early, when the state increased the minimum wage by 75 cents on the final day of 2014....
New state data show a steep drop in suspensions and expulsions of California students, continuing a recent downward trend. Altogether, 20 percent fewer students were expelled and 15 percent fewer students were suspended in 2013-14 than in...
This week the Inside Track continues a series of interviews with members of the Strategic Advisory Committee of Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and American Heart Association, exploring their various...
Many parents know the scenario: Their child shows signs of anxiety or depression, throws fits or has trouble focusing. They tell the pediatrician, who has only 15 minutes to see them, a crowded waiting room and limited experience with...
Editor's note: In the past decade, the police department in Richmond, Calif. has undergone a dramatic transformation. Spearheaded by an openly-gay and white chief in charge of policing this largely African American and Latino city, the...
I recently visited a young man named James who is serving a 15-to-life sentence that he began at 15 years old. He is now 26 and confined at a maximum-security prison in New York. By the time he is released, if ever, James will have spent more of his...
A broken-down car. A sick childcare provider. A dwindling bank account. For young people supporting themselves through college, these challenges aren't merely bumps in the road. They can be brick walls that keep young people from staying in school. To...
New York City officials unanimously agreed Tuesday to eliminate solitary confinement for inmates ages 21 and younger. The decision is groundbreaking: Jails across the U.S. impose solitary confinement on misbehaving inmates. In recent years, the...
Among New Year’s resolutions shared on Twitter, unplugging digitally came right after losing weight and quitting smoking. People are flocking to digital detoxes, screen-free bedrooms and apps that nudge you off your phone. It is all in...
January 31st 2015 is the deadline for submitting an abstract to present your research work at the 7th International Attachment Conference taking place in New York City over 6-8 August. The mornings will be devoted to full congress...