The need to regulate restraint and seclusion in our nation’s schools just gained significant momentum with the release of a new report and an NPR article that highlights the need for immediate action. ProPublica analyzed data released by the...
Walla Walla WA: The study of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) has become a well-known effort to assess relations between childhood mistreatment and later-life health and well-being. The ACE Study , a collaboration between the Centers for...
Fighting with friends and family may have more lasting effects than just ruining your day. In a study released May 28, psychologists Rodlescia Sneed and Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University found that negative social interactions can increase...
We Are the Youth is a photographic journalism project chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and "as told to" interviews in the...
Delinquent children are much more likely than their nondelinquent peers to die violently later in life, a study finds. And girls who ended up in juvenile detention were especially vulnerable, dying at nearly five times the rate of the general...
A Montreal man says he feels vindicated after winning $33,000 in a racial profiling case against the Montreal police. Four years after a police officer dragged him out of a car and fined him for "wandering without being able to justify his presence,"...
America's children are already getting too much sugar and consuming too many calories. Now they're also getting an excess of vitamins and minerals in their food. According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 45 percent of...
Blacks have the highest risk of dying from colon cancer, according to the CDC . And a new study suggests one of the possible reasons why. Researchers analyzed information from 503 patients in the North Carolina Colon Cancer Study . They...
A congressional committee has begun investigating why child abuse and neglect persists on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake reservation, almost two years after the federal government stepped in to address the problem. At a hearing on Tuesday, tribal...
Fewer than one in five city schools ’fessed up to even a single incident of bullying on a new tracking system run by the state — proof, advocates say, that Education Department officials and principals have failed to address a dangerous...
The Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge played host to an unconventional baby shower this month as it collected donations for the reopening of its Mother and Child Unit. The program was cancelled in 2008, which was deemed...
A new study helps us to better understand the link between stress and negative health outcomes. Scientists may have identified the connection between chronic stress and heart attacks, according to a new study: white blood cells . “[They] are important to fight infection and healing, but if you have too many of them, or they are in the wrong place, they can be harmful,” said Matthias Nahrendorf of the Harvard Medical School, who was a co-author of the study, Agence...
The prevalence of cancers associated with risky behaviors such as drinking and smoking is on the rise in England. ACEs work have identified these same behaviors as maladaptive coping mechanisms. There has been a rise in rates of lifestyle-linked...
Prescription drugs may be used as maladaptive method to cope with emotional pain, but when putting restrictions on the drugs we also must consider the benefits for those dealing with physical pain. Prescriptions for narcotic painkillers have surged in...
A demonstration of anxiety in crayfish may help us understand the neuronal mechanisms of anxiety and stress in humans. For the first time, CNRS researchers and the Université de Bordeaux have produced and observed anxiety-like behavior in...