Many forces can drive a male college student to commit sexual assault. But one of the most important may be the company he keeps. A number of studies, on college campuses and elsewhere, have shown that having friends who support violence...
As the governor of Missouri calls out the National Guard to finish what Ferguson's armed-for-combat police started, it's hard not to question the efficiency, or even intelligence, of this kind of paramilitary policing. Arming police with...
If you’re a modern, wealthy nation, however, war — even easy, victorious war — doesn’t pay. And this has been true for a long time. In his famous 1910 book “The Great Illusion,” the British journalist Norman Angell...
A team led by researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and King's College London has uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet that epigenetic changes in the brain play a role in Alzheimer's disease. Epigenetic changes affect the...
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In 2010, Tom Delbanco, an internist, and Jan Walker, a nurse and researcher, started an experiment called OpenNotes that let patients read what their primary care providers write about them. They hypothesized that giving patients access to notes would...
Former congressman Patrick Kennedy is building a "Community of Mental Health," by making connections that are needed for mental health to be fully integrated into our understanding of overall health. To achieve this goal, he has created the Kennedy...
Facing its final Assembly hearing, the California Fair Sentencing Act (SB 1010) authored by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) won approval today. Mitchell’s bill will correct the groundless disparity in sentencing, probation and asset...
Contrary to popular belief, not all meditation techniques produce similar effects of body and mind. Indeed, a recent study by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has demonstrated for the first time that different types of...
Starbucks said Thursday it is changing its scheduling policies in hopes of easing the burden on workers struggling to balance their home lives with the chain's erratic hours and shifts. The company vowed to update its scheduling software to make...
Robin Williams' death has renewed focus on the issue of suicide, in the media and in the medical community. Psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Minne speaks with Melissa Block about how a high-profile suicide like Williams' may affect vulnerable populations...
In the fall of 2012, The Huffington Post published Jane Ellen Stevens’s three-part overview on what Stevens claimed was “probably the most important public health study you never heard of.” Stevens, a seasoned health, science,...
Children with high everyday levels of a protein released into the blood in response to infection are at greater risk of developing depression and psychosis in adulthood, according to new research which suggests a role for the immune system in mental...