As Dr. Jay Fisher enters Patient Room 12, a 14-year-old boy with curly, brown hair smiles sheepishly from the bed. Dressed in a green hospital gown, he’s quiet — calm even. Gabe is a ninth-grader, big brother, budding chef, Tom...
Childhood mental illness and obesity are significant public health concerns in the US. Since they start in childhood, preventive and early intervention approaches are needed. Pet dogs have been linked with health benefits for...
When I was younger, I’d have to make an excuse to leave the room whenever sex scenes came on the television. I learned to sniff out at a bedroom scene within 30 seconds and escape to make tea, or feign a yawn and head off to bed. There...
Mental health courts sound like a great idea—just like the drug courts that inspired them. People with psychiatric disorders often have difficulty controlling their behavior; if you treat them effectively, you’ll reduce crime and the need...
Sometime between 11 am ET and 9 pm ET Wednesday, Dec. 2 , ACEsConnection.com will go offline . Two hours later, it will reappear with a new look. Most of the functions — posting a blog, a calendar event, navigating around the site...
A rapid descent because of the trauma load you carry can be very short. That's what happened to Alaska Native Joseph Murphy in Juneau, Alaska. His death at the hands of the Alaska Department of Corrections was revealed when Governor Walker revealed an...
Over the past 20 years, black enrollment in colleges and universities has skyrocketed . It’s a huge success story, one that’s due to the hard work of black families, college admissions officers, and education advocates. But at...
Where were you on November 11, 2015? It was only a couple weeks ago, but already you may not remember. It was a humming but unexceptional news day. In the United States, protestors at the University of Missouri had just successfully ousted...
Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg's life is all about focus. In each image and time-lapse he captures, there's an incredible amount of activity going on, but our eyes tend to hone in on one particular aspect. This is no accident. "There's a large...
A woman accused of stabbing her three young daughters is on trial in Compton on murder charges. Carol Coronado's husband testified that she'd been "acting weird" before allegedly killing the girls and then stabbing herself May 20,...
In many cases, the storybook is a childs first resource that inspires, gives hope, and teaches the heros journey. Stories like Cinderella, Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast are sources of knowledge, happiness, and imagination....
Flu season is nearly upon us, and in an effort to limit contagion and spare ourselves misery, many of us will get vaccinated. The work of Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis has helped restrict the spread of the nasty bug for generations, and the influenza...
The average length of time served by federal inmates more than doubled from 1988 to 2012, rising from 17.9 to 37.5 months.1 Across all six major categories of federal crime—violent, property, drug, public order, weapon, and immigration...
* With 95% confidence intervals indicated with error bars. † Emotional or behavioral difficulties of children were based on parents' responses to the following question: "Overall, do you think that (child) has any difficulties in one or...
Governor Steve Beshear, Democrat of Kentucky, only has two weeks left in office, but he’s determined to go out with a bang. Beshear announced today that he is issuing an executive order restoring voting rights for nonviolent...