The Family Nurturing Center is on a mission to prevent future heroin abuse by intervening in the lives of children who have been traumatized. Northern Kentucky, a center of the nationwide heroin scourge, is seeing dramatic increases in...
There was a sense of idealism in the air in 1971 when Craig Ramey, a psychologist in his late 20s with a newly minted Ph.D., took a job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to launch what would become one of the longest-running educational...
Reducing the effects of significant adversity on young children’s healthy development is critical to the progress and prosperity of any society. Yet not all children experience lasting harm as a result of adverse early experiences. Some may...
The stories are all too common. A popular high school football player was found dead not far from his Grand Forks home in North Dakota and two high school students in Texas died after taking synthetic drugs. One took the drug mistaking it to be...
After two weeks of high tensions and mostly peaceful demonstrations in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, violence beset Baltimore on Monday afternoon and fanned through the city overnight. In the bright light of morning, answers may not be...
A global study of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods revealed that teenagers from Baltimore, a city located just 40 miles from the US capital, are faring worse than their counterparts in Nigeria. Many people tend to associate child...
Rona Renner -- a long-time nurse, parenting coach, author (Is That Me Yelling? A Parent's Guide to Getting Your Kids To Cooperate Without Losing Your Cool), and member of ACEsConnection -- hosts the radio show "About Health" on KPFA (FM 94.1) in...
Children who are exposed to an adverse childhood experience (ACE) are 28 percent more likely to develop asthma, according to a new study published in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The asthma risk increases even more with each additional ACE exposure. Asthma is one of the most common chronic childhood conditions, currently affecting seven million, or 9.5 percent, of children in the U.S., said researcher Robyn Wing, M.D., an emergency medicine...
Poor old Dr. Krebs. His painstaking Nobel-winning work on cellular metabolism, called the Krebs cycle, has made him the symbol for what's ailing medical education. "Why do I need to know this stuff?" medical students ask me. "How many times...
In the early morning, as the cold set in, Anaya Maze stood next to the charred remains of a CVS store. Holding a sign, she was the only protester left in front of a line of police officers dressed in riot gear. She is petite. Still, she faced...
Much of our recent reporting, especially from New Orleans, has focused on young people who are neither in school, nor working. There are an estimated five and a half million of them, ages 16 to 24, in the United States. But what do we call...
Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the...
Current science on how toxic stress affects your patients’ health is the focus of a new course called Violence, Abuse and Toxic Stress in Pediatrics: An Update on Trauma-Informed Care in Children and Youth. The course will be held July 30-Aug. 2...
Unfortunately, sexual assaults on college campuses aren't all that unusual. And this one sounds pretty familiar: A student reported that she was assaulted in a dorm by someone she knew. It happened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The...
The emergence of research related to adverse child experiences, toxic stress and the biological consequences of these problems for adults and children highlights the importance of early recognition and intervention for abused children. All...