"The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments. "In...
"Less than 50 percent of students in foster care earn a high school diploma, leaving them few opportunities for jobs that pay a living wage. "However, a program in Elk Grove Unified School District in the Sacramento area is improving the odds for...
"The 31-year-old, who is originally from Purley in Surrey, said: "Mental health needs in refugee camps are getting some attention from aid agencies but parenting needs have not really been looked at in detail before - even though it's known how...
"School refusal, frequent displays of irritability, sudden drop in grades, difficulty sleeping and unexplained bouts of crying could also be your child’s silent call for help. "Spend time with your child and listen to him/her in order to better...
"Long before Amy Chua’s provocative 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, raised the bar for tough-love parenting, psychologists at UC Berkeley were studying the effects of three kinds of child-rearing: authoritarian...
"A state report released Monday afternoon delved deeper into the dysfunction in Richmond’s Department of Social Services, which has been the subject of three separate probes since a chorus of concern from child welfare workers, City Council...
"President Obama officially declared June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month. However, despite advances in civil rights, sexual minority youth are still at greater risk for suicide than their heterosexual peers, according to...
Here is the final installment in our six-part series of reports from the National Summit on ACES , held May 2013 in Philadelphia. But the conversation doesn't end here. So many Summit presenters -- who included physicians, social workers,...
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"The former secretary of state announced a partnership called ‘‘Too Small to Fail’’ on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago. Clinton will partner with Next Generation, a nonpartisan group...
"This was the first of his 16 sessions with Idaho Horse Therapy Inc. "Jordan smiled shyly and fiddled with the rope, not quite making sense of the loops, before equine specialist Johnny Urrutia stepped in to lend advice. “He was really worried...
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http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/24/10132.abstract This article provides new therapeutic hope for people suffering from the disease of alcoholism. Alcoholism impacts families worldwide, the costs of treatment are overwhelming including the...
"Fights between siblings – from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom – are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up. Yet a new study from researchers at the University of New...