Each spring, a group of editors from our parent company, ECM Publishers, spends a day at the state capitol in St. Paul, meeting with the governor, legislative leaders and other state officials. We come prepared with our questions, and we learn...
Medical experts are increasingly realizing that early childhood trauma stunts brain development and leaves kids at risk for lifelong health and behavioral problems. That was one of the major takeaways from the 25th annual Forum on Child Abuse...
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched research in the 1990s into the relationship between traumatic experiences in childhood and health problems in adulthood, they first focused on mental health outcomes and health...
In the spring of 2009, California-based writer Sharael Kolberg did the math and estimated that she spent four months of her year using some form of entertainment technology — whether watching TV or surfing the Internet. So Kolberg, 44,...
New research shows that it doesn't take much for kids to be considered couch potatoes. Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese compared to children who...
In the weeks after 9/11, Pamela Cantor, a child psychiatrist specializing in trauma, was enlisted by the New York City Board of Education to lead a team studying the impact of the attacks on the city’s public school children. What the...
Here's a great radio spot from Sheilah Kast at WYPR's "Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast", interviewing Baltimore's Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen. Dr. Wen participated in the Urban Health Institute at Johns Hopkins' Conference on Trauma's...
Definitely time for me to pursue a little R&R!!! My self-assigned work for the weekend has been completed! +Early trauma (high ACE scores), attachment disorders and impaired empathy: great power in new research that combines the three
When he asked, “Is this bottom?” in the middle of yet another crisis that took me from work, writing and my daughter, I said, “I hope so.” The bottom was ten times after I thought he had already face-planted into...
Fear followed Alberto Velazquez every time he left the apartment he shared with his mother and siblings in Pomona, Calif. If he saw a cop walking on the sidewalk, he said, his first instinct was to turn around and walk the other way. “I...
With mounting concern over the explosive rise in Type 2 diabetes, mostly among overweight and obese Americans, it is easy to forget that Type 1 diabetes, which is far less common, can be a much more serious disease that often seems to arise out...
The first thing you notice in the obituary for Molly Alice Parks is her photo. She's young, bright red lipstick; her hair streaked with pink and teal. Molly Parks died last Thursday in Manchester, N.H. She was 24. And what's most remarkable in...
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors. That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell published Thursday that showed how activity in the cerebral cortex affected high-grade gliomas, which represent about 80 percent...
Welcome to Caring and Connected Parenting: A Guide to Raising Connected Children. This guide supports and strengthens the partnership between parents and children, particularly new parents embarking on this great adventure in their lives. Based...
Five years ago, during the recession, Maria Morcera lost her house to foreclosure in Atwater, a city in California’s Central Valley. The house wasn’t just where Morcera, her husband and their four children lived. It also was...