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Former congressman Patrick Kennedy is building a "Community of Mental Health," by making connections that are needed for mental health to be fully integrated into our understanding of overall health. To achieve this goal, he has created the Kennedy...

Facing its final Assembly hearing, the California Fair Sentencing Act (SB 1010) authored by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) won approval today.   Mitchell’s bill will correct the groundless disparity in sentencing, probation and asset...

Contrary to popular belief, not all meditation techniques produce similar effects of body and mind. Indeed, a recent study by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has demonstrated for the first time that different types of...

Starbucks said Thursday it is changing its scheduling policies in hopes of easing the burden on workers struggling to balance their home lives with the chain's erratic hours and shifts. The company vowed to update its scheduling software to make...

Robin Williams' death has renewed focus on the issue of suicide, in the media and in the medical community. Psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Minne speaks with Melissa Block about how a high-profile suicide like Williams' may affect vulnerable populations...

In the fall of 2012, The Huffington Post published Jane Ellen Stevens’s three-part overview on what Stevens claimed was “probably the most important public health study you never heard of.”  Stevens, a seasoned health, science,...

Children with high everyday levels of a protein released into the blood in response to infection are at greater risk of developing depression and psychosis in adulthood, according to new research which suggests a role for the immune system in mental...

A panel of academics with members from several institutions in the U.S. has published a Comment piece in the journal Nature asking journalists to be more careful in how they portray the results of epigenetic studies. The panel, led by Sarah Richardson...

Later this month, new residents will arrive at a nursing home in the Bronx. Like other coming to Jewish Home Lifecare, they will be recuperating from hospitalization for cardiac surgery, strokes, fractured hips -the whole panoply of...

The Justice Department is leading a broad review of police tactics, including the kind of deadly force that prompted recent protests in Missouri and New York, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday. The review is being conducted as the...

A new study by Child Trends shows adverse childhood experiences -- like witnessing violence, or being separated from a parent -- are potentially traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on their health. This can include depression,...

Across the country over the next year, federal agencies expect to manage about 60,000 minors who entered or will arrive in the United States without an adult guardian. That figure compares with about 7,500 who came in annually before the numbers...