Concentrated poverty remains a huge barrier to developing the potential of black and Hispanic youth in the United States. Of all the issues raised by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, perhaps the most intractable is the challenge of...
As a follow up to last week’s Top Ten Healthcare Quotes For 2014, this week we target some of the bigger healthcare stories through the lens of ten charts (and one PowerPoint slide) that appeared throughout the year. Since 2014 was the...
The fact that childcare is expensive, sometimes prohibitively so, is nothing new. For years, families have been confronted with high-priced childcare that sometimes leads to one spouse stepping away from the workforce, reasoning that the cost...
Backed by a new report from his Council of Economic Advisers, President Barack Obama is framing his push for universal preschool and early education as an economic issue that will yield extraordinary financial benefits not only to children and...
In Richmond, Calif., a city long equated with high rates of crime and poverty, the local police have taken steps in recent years to improve relations with the communities they serve. Highlighting those efforts, Richmond Chief of Police Chris...
University of Michigan Original Study A nxious mother rats give off an odor that teaches their newborn babies to be afraid. Researchers studied mother rats who had learned to fear the smell of peppermint and saw them teach this fear to...
Steinway & Sons Grand Piano Iron Plates and Strings. Credit: David Maiolo / Wikipedia. M usic training has well-known benefits for the developing brain, especially for at-risk children. But youngsters who sit passively in a music class may be missing out, according to new Northwestern University research. In a study designed to test whether the level of engagement matters, researchers found that children who regularly attended music classes and actively...
When the average American thinks about how climate change -caused global warming could affect their health , what do they think of? Not much, apparently, according to a new study ,Public Perceptions of the Health Impacts of Global...
Correction: The quote "Paradise is open to all creatures" was mistakenly attributed to Pope Francis. It was in fact spoken by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI. Do dogs go to heaven? If you thought this was a silly question, forget that! No sooner...
I n a study of more than 5,500 school teachers to estimate the prevalence of depressive disorders in workers with burnout, 90% of the subjects identified as burned out met diagnostic criteria for depression. The study also examined the...
We get it, you’re busy. But it turns out you don’t need very much time in the gym to improve your health. In fact, it might only take one—yes one—high intensity minute of exercise to do the trick. New research...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The families of nine people killed in the Newtown school massacre filed a lawsuit against the maker and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting, saying the gun should not have been sold for...
Nick Meza, 18, recently had another five-day round of chemotherapy at the outpatient clinic here at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Usually those days drag for Nick, an Eagle Scout with a flashing grin, a hunger for conversation,...
Distrust of police prevents many Hispanic Americans from calling 911 when someone is suffering cardiac arrest, a new study reveals. "Residents of low-income, minority neighborhoods have two strikes against them: The incidence of out-of-hospital...
A stretch of dry, empty prairie where the Sand Creek Massacre took place in Colorado has hardly changed in a century and a half. Back in December 1864, America was still months from the end of the Civil War. Gen. William Sherman was making...