Reporter Lois Collins wrote a two-part series called " Living Lonely " for the Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT). In "Seniors in search of a song", she looked at the health effects of loneliness. Although a possible link of adverse childhood...
PISA stands for Programme for International Student Assessment , which is done every three years in 70 countries. PISA is published by the OECD -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- a 50-year-old organization that...
Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris and the Center for Youth Wellness are the focus of this segment on KQED's California Report today. Dr. Burke Harris is on the front lines of a scientific theory that measures Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE),...
Ryan White wrote this overview of "The Child Mill", the Los Angeles Times' three-part series for ReportingonHealth.org. If you don't have time to read the entire series, this is definitely worth a glance. It might even entice you to check out all...
Compared with a combination of medication and headache education, children 10 to 17 receiving the cognitive therapy had an average of 4.7 fewer headache days per month (95% CI 1.7-7.7, P =0.002), according to Scott W. Powers, PhD , of Cincinnati...
...and it would be interesting to know how ACEs fit in, don't you think? Study participants included 5,502 men and women aged 30 to 79 years, in three racial groups, Black, Hispanic and White. The researchers found that Black and Hispanic men...
Matthew Haney, commissioner of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, and Neva Walker, executive director of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth in San Francisco, wrote this op-ed for sfgate.com (San...
Here's one researcher's take on compassion. Would asking about ACEs be another? Or does compassion enter in HOW a physician or nurse asks about ACEs? "Good to see you. I'm sorry. It sounds like you've had a tough, tough, week." Spoken by a doctor to a...
This "mini-review" by Ulrike Ehlert at the University of Zurich in Switzerland appeared in the September issue of Psychoneuroendocrinology: There is increasing evidence of a strong interconnectivity between genetic dispositions, epigenetic...
Somehow, in recovering from dental surgery and not paying attention to much of anything except sleeping and reading mysteries, I missed this study published by researchers at the MARCS Institute Babylab at the University of Western Sydney....
Monique Morris, co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and author of Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century , interviewed black girls in juvenile detention in Northern...
THIS -- an essay adapted from Atlantic magazine editor Scott Stossel's upcoming book -- will rev up your anxiety just reading it, even if you're not the anxious type. Here are the first two graphs: I’ve finally settled on a pre-talk regimen...
...and that's just the beginning of this glance at high school and college graduation rates across the U.S. If you dug into these dropout rates, no doubt you'd find layers of ACEs and few support systems. This is another reason for making sure schools...
The Stearns County Domestic Violence Program is hiring a child advocate to help connect kids who have witnessed violence or other traumatic events with proper mental health care. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to have child...