Quitting smoking sets off a series of changes in the brain that Penn Medicine researchers say may better identify smokers who will start smoking again—a prediction that goes above and beyond today's clinical or behavioral tools for assessing...
Even the most trivial of emergency-room trips can quickly add up. Going in for an upper respiratory infection averages more than $1,000 . A urinary tract infection can set patients back thousands of dollars. But before Obamacare came on the...
A s a civil rights attorney, Constance Rice [co-founder of the Advancement Project] became known in the 1990s for, as she puts it, going to war with the Los Angeles Police Department. Rice filed lawsuits against the department, mainly over their treatment of minorities in underprivileged communities. Here are a couple of excerpts from the interview: On whether or not racism plays a factor in police force : He [the police officer] doesn't feel like it's racism. The black...
If your children’s school seems to suddenly be devoting its time and resources to something called SEL, it may be leaving you wondering what happened to good old reading, writing and arithmetic (or even that new darling, coding)....
On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo for the July 17 killing of Eric Garner, the second no-indictment decision in a major police-involved homicide in...
When you go to bed, and how long you sleep at a time, might actually make it difficult for you to stop worrying. So say Jacob Nota and Meredith Coles of Binghamton University in the US, who found that people who sleep for shorter periods of time and...
If Danielle Goodwin had taken the Adverse Childhood Experiences Test as a teenager, she would have scored a perfect 10. The ACES test was developed in 1998 by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and Kaiser Permanente in...
As the morning school bell rings and students rush through crowded corridors, teenagers in one Portland classroom settle onto mats and meditation pillows. They fall silent after the teacher taps a Tibetan "singing bowl." "Allow yourself to...
The Golden Rule has been around a while. Some think it was first taught by Confucius. Yet, according to religious scholar and worldwide compassion ambassador Karen Armstrong, this core idea, that you must not do to others what you would not...
One week after the release of a surveillance video showing a Cleveland police officer fatally shooting a 12-year-old African-American boy who was holding a pellet gun, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. flew here on Thursday to announce that a...
It’s nearly noon on a beautiful Friday at the global headquarters of outdoor clothing company Patagonia. Workers gather around laptops on picnic tables nestled under a grape arbor. Some lift their voices to be heard over the sounds of...
Child homelessness is more of an issue than ever with a recent report by The National Center on Family Homelessness citing that 1 in 30 children in America were homeless during 2013, an 8% national increase from 2012. While many reasons can be...
Mick was 17 when his parents kicked him out of their Minneapolis house for being gay. He spent months couch surfing and sleeping in homeless shelters. Shortly after, he began a serious relationship with an older man and moved in with him....
A report by Mayor Bill de Blasios criminal justice task force outlined changes aimed at keeping low-level offenders with mental illness and substance abuse problems out of jail. [Read the report at http://www.nytimes.com/interac...tntemail0=y&_r=0 ]
Individuals conceived in the severe Dutch Famine, also called the Hunger Winter, may have adjusted to this horrendous period of World War II by making adaptations to how active their DNA is. Genes involved in growth and development were differentially...