I’m a mental health advocate who also lives with mental illness. I experience the symptoms of bipolar disorder just like anyone else would. Bipolar and anxiety disorders cause me to feel depressed, manic, anxious, and a host of other...
It’s not just the right thing for employers to pay attention to their employees’ health and well-being; it’s the right thing to do for the bottom line. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report,...
Wh en you spend a lot of time reading and writing about American families, it’s easy to focus on the bad news: high rates of family instability, widespread financial difficulties in the wake of the recession, expensive ...
A crowd of 80 that included members of the state’s Legislature and experts in the mental health and addiction recovery fields met at the Seabrook Community Center for the Integrated Systems of Care Legislative Summit Friday morning....
Over the past year, I haven't been able to shake the importance of that word "community" in thinking about veterans, whether it's the bond they have with one another or what sort of impact they can have on society at large. "Veterans can be a...
Facebook just announced a move toward addressing the increasingly large and embarrassing income gap between the haves and have-nots in Silicon Valley. The company will give contractors -- think janitors, cooks -- a minimum wage of...
The announcement that Wegmans plans to open a Brooklyn store sent a wave of excitement through New Yorkers on Wednesday. The proposed grocery store, slotted to open in 2017, would bring affordable food prices to a segment of...
Texas House lawmakers are expected to consider a measure as early as Wednesday that could be used to protect child welfare service providers who want to force kids into discredited gay conversion therapy programs. The bill also protects providers who...
Actress Elizabeth Banks, singer Jordin Sparks and Vice President Joe Biden are among those helping Tumblr establish a safe place from bullies online. The celebrities will appear in videos on the blogging website to launch its new...
Linda Ranson Jacobs discovered the Kaiser-CDC ACE Study three years ago when she read how Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, changed its approach to disciplining students. Through her experience as a childcare provider and independent...
Did you know that half the babies born to American women under 30 are born outside of marriage? Yes, half. Let that sink in. More alarming, nearly three-quarters of the pregnancies to single women under 30 are not planned. Most say...
New research has found a link between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and accelerated aging. “This is the first study of its type to link PTSD, a psychological disorder with no established genetic basis, which is caused by external,...
Researchers at the University of California-Davis have developed a new intervention that identifies potentially depressed mothers and encourages them to seek treatment. The Motivating our Mothers (MOM) program relies on pediatricians rather...
Abstract Racial disparities in health are well-documented and represent a significant public health concern in the US. Racism-related factors contribute to poorer health and higher mortality rates among Blacks compared to other racial groups....
When Noah first came to see Dr. Daniel Nam five years ago, he was an unemployed EMT with a busted-up smile and a broken tooth in his hand. He says he was too embarrassed to apply for jobs or even smile. Dr. Nam is a volunteer dentist at the...