Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and author of " Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking ." Take a quick look at her site's "about" page and try really hard to not be impressed. This magical button...
When the Army discharged her for drug use in May 2004, Rhiannon Duncan, a single mother in her mid-20s who served full-time in the Army, had many demons and very little sense of direction. In August 2014, after a few years marked by...
The city of Boston is ramping up efforts to end homelessness among veterans , and for one local organization, that means focusing on legal assistance. Boston-based Veterans Legal Services (VLS) is the only organization of its...
When parents and communities are squeezed, their young children pay the price. How can we do better? California Newsreel's acclaimed new documentary series, The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation , explores how a...
Being overweight doesn’t necessarily make a person distraught, researchers are learning. Rather, it’s the teasing, judgment and unsolicited advice directed at overweight people that can cause the greatest psychological harm....
Abuse of older people, which can take the form of sexual or emotional abuse, physical violence and financial manipulation, affects at least 10 percent of older Americans, according to a review article published Thursday in...
At 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, you'll find Mark Gaither standing on Gough Street in southeast Baltimore. He's outside Wolfe Street Academy , the neighborhood elementary school where he's the principal. Gaither has a huge umbrella in case...
Introduction Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? In these reports, theCounty Health Rankings & Roadmapsprogram explores how wide gaps are throughout each state and what is driving those differences. This information can help state leaders as they identify ways for everyone to have a fair chance to lead the healthiest life possible. Specifically, these reports can help state leaders understand:...
Inequality: What Can Be Done? Anthony B. Atkinson Harvard University Press Inequality will be everywhere and nowhere in the 2016 presidential debates. Given the way the rhetoric has evolved among the leading candidates, the economy will likely...
Every Thursday night you can find Nathan Fields making the rounds of Baltimore's red light district, known to locals as The Block. An outreach worker with the Baltimore City Health Department, Fields, 55, is a welcome sight outside strip clubs...
This past summer, The Atlantic’s Sarah Yager wrote about the rising popularity of prison nurseries as a means of saving costs, enhancing morale, and reducing recidivism among the ever-growing female inmate population. Such...
Phoenix Children’s Hospital defines Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as the childhood traumas that can cause toxic stress and damage a child’s brain and overall health. These ACEs include but are not limited to, emotional and...
If love is the answer, Amarie is acing the test. Mom, aunties, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, cousins — her sprawling Eastern Shoshone family — brims with it. Her ready wide-eyed smile reflects the abundance, and she...
Princeton political scientist John Dilulio dubbed them superpredators—murderous teenagers who could commit heinous acts of violence without feeling a trace of guilt. “They fear neither the stigma of arrest nor the pain of...
Parental death from suicide is known to be linked with mental health problems and increased risk of suicide in the bereaved child, but little is known about the long-term risks of suicide after parental death from other causes. In...