If you have an emergency, you dial 911. If you find yourself in need of emergency food or shelter, you can dial 211 — but help might not come very soon. On a busy morning at Seattle's Crisis Clinic, specially trained operators such as...
Mental illness remains highly stigmatized, even after celebrities like Brooke Shields , Mel Gibson and Robin Williams went public with their stories. So it was really a big deal 60 years ago when the Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall...
We had both just gotten home for the holiday when Dad calmly announced to the dinner table, “Your uncle has had a heart attack.” An explosion of questions and half-eaten rice erupted from my brother, an emergency-medicine resident,...
Police officers in Meridian, Mississippi, were spending so much time hauling handcuffed students from school to the local juvenile jail that they began describing themselves as “just a taxi service. It wasn’t because schools in this...
Would better education significantly reduce income inequality in America? No, says recent study from the Brookings Institution. But that doesn't mean that better education wouldn't help the overall economic picture. The study suggests that...
“Racial reconciliation is not something that white people do for other people,” proclaimed Russell Moore in March. Moore, a white man from Mississippi, was opening a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville,...
The gap between white and Mexican-American children in cognitive skills such as oral language is apparent at age 2, according to a recent study from UC Berkeley. The gap is largest between white children and the children of immigrant parents,...
A group of psychiatrists and social workers formerly employed at an Australian offshore immigration detention center publicly accused the government on Tuesday of failing to act over systemic child sexual abuse at the controversial facility. More than...
Less than 20 years ago, Vince Felitti, MD, and Rob Anda, MD, published the results of research that showed proof of a strong relationship between painful things that can happen in childhood – adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs - and...
I doubt anyone would disagree that we need to make headway in reducing illegal drug use in this country. We know the toll that illegal drug use takes on families, on communities, on our state and on our economy. What do we know, though, about...
Over the past 10 months in these Editor’s Pages, I have often encouraged my cardiologist colleagues to observe our responsibilities as teachers, leaders, and caregivers. However, in this Editor’s Page, I turn my attention to different...
http://www2.aap.org/commpeds/cpti/opportunities.htm COMMUNITY-PEDIATRIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILD WELL-BEING GRANTS Applications due 2:00pm Central, April 21, 2015. CPTI will support 3 projects partnering pediatric faculty residency programs...
Eighteen months ago, Shots first told readers about tumor paint, an experimental substance derived from scorpion venom. Inject tumor paint into a patient's vein, and it will actually cross the blood-brain barrier and find its way to a brain...
A new study by UNC researchers, based on MRI brain scans of 152 infants, found disruptions in functional connectivity within part of the amygdala-prefrontal network - a pathway thought to play an important role in arousal regulation. To our...
Orange Is the New Black, the popular Netflix show based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, brought female prisons into America’s living room, highlighting several issues that are plaguing the correctional system. While the show exaggerates...