A major obstacle to preventing the sexual abuse of children is getting people to realize that it is a common problem. A local survey released this month shows that Rochester-area residents believe child sexual abuse is "more of a national problem than...
Police officer Brian Post recognized the 16-year-old girl lying face down in the grass at the Whispering Pines apartment complex in Lynnwood, Washington. He had gotten to know her in recent weeks, helping her obtain a restraining order against her...
Roughly 30% of adults with attention-deficit disorder (ADD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were physically abused as children, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Toronto in Canada found that the likelihood of...
YouTube and Twitter are usually prime places for youngsters to mock ministers, whip up dissent and do battle with the government. So why have a range of social media's brightest stars just joined forces with it? Charlie McDonnell, Jamal Edwards,...
The goal that Lorraine Speaks has set for herself seems simple: Eat better. Barely 5 feet tall, the 58-year-old weighs 240 pounds. To lose weight, she knows she'll have to cut back on processed foods and the bags of miniature cookies that are her...
It has been 23 months since Brown County noticed a spike in the number of child abuse and neglect reports in Brown County. At the time, April 2012, officials talked about the seriousness of the problem and how action need to be taken quickly. Since...
Dr. Vincent Felitti, MD again joined our SoCal (Southern California) ACEs Group March 7 for our alternate-month San Diego meeting. He’s shown with author-activist Morgan Rose (details below). I felt so grateful. Earlier March...
I get lots of questions about Dr. Mary Main’s Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), which showed in 1994 that only 55% of Americans have “secure attachment.” That’s already a shocker– it means 45% of us did not. [FN1] (Mary Main with her top grad student, neuroscientist Dr. Daniel Siegel, MD) We’ve got a 52% divorce rate, round numbers make discussion easy, and in 1994 the public hadn’t even heard of the Internet. In the 20 years since,...
Americans' excessive alcohol use contributes to thousands of deaths each year, and the majority who die are working-age adults, according to a new government report. More than two-thirds of these deaths and 80 percent of years of life lost come from...
Employers need to take a more proactive approach to employees with depression in the wake of figures showing the illness now costs European workplaces an estimated £77 ($130) billion a year. The greatest economic loss is through absenteeism and...
For a female inmate, there are few places worse than the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Corrections officers have raped, beaten and harassed women inside the aging prison here for at least 18 years, according to an unfolding Justice Department...
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Teens and young adults involved in relationship violence are more likely to suffer depression, a new study indicates. The Bowling Green State University sociologists found that both males and females who committed or were victims of relationship...
Andrew Steptoe of University College London and his colleagues have found that telomere length can predict how long it takes older men to recover from stressful situations. Men with shorter telomeres have longer recovery times than men with longer...
Researchers at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have found that emotional stressors – such as those provoking anger – may cause changes in the nervous system that controls heart rate and trigger...