Today, the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth issues the first-ever guidelines for defending children facing our country’s most extreme sentence. “Trial Defense Guidelines: Representing a Child Client Facing a Possible Life...
Four-year-old Aiden and his mother came to a Raleigh, N.C., Salvation Army Women & Childrens Shelter for the 30-day overnight program in October. They had no car and had shuttled between the homes of friends and family in Raleigh and Durham, N.C., but Aidens mother was determined to find the services her son needed. Aiden, whose name is changed for his privacy, screamed and cried frequently, couldnt focus and couldnt sit still. He had language delays,...
The combination of stress and heavy depression can significantly increase heart patient's risk of death or heart attack, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. The...
Abstract In North America, substance abuse is a public health crisis with annual costs in the billions. Individuals suffer from substance use disorders for multiple years throughout their lifespan. This suggests that neither historical,...
A team of researchers in France has found a way to alter how a mouse "feels" about something it has remembered. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the team describes how they recorded brain activity while mice...
International researchers together with local scientists have created a theoretical model to help nurses become less susceptible to stress. The International Collaboration on Workforce Resilience, initiated by Curtin University,...
In rural America, where there are more guns, fewer people, and fewer doctors than in the urban U.S., young people are at particular risk of suicide. A study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics analyzed suicides among people aged 10 to 24...
For about a century, economic inequality has been measured on a scale, from zero to one, known as the Gini index and named after an Italian statistician, Corrado Gini, who devised it in 1912, when he was twenty-eight and the chair of statistics...
The University of Florida's Dr. Nancy Hardt has an unusual double specialty: She's both a pathologist and an OB-GYN. For the first half of her career, she brought babies into the world. Then she switched — to doing autopsies on people...
One in three California middle school and high school students reported having been harassed or bullied at least once in the previous year, according to new data from a statewide student survey. Thirty-four percent of students in grades 7, 9...
The Special Operations Command’s war on suicides is prompting its storied, silent commander to speak both publicly and privately—all but ordering his forces to get help. Suicides by special operators have fallen for two years...
The only shameful thing about mental illness is the stigma attached to it. A lack of understanding when it comes to these disorders can leave sufferers feeling isolated and hopeless. Only 25 percent of people with mental health issues feel that...
When a 1975 New York Times cover story charged the NYPD with widespread graft and thuggery, we got Al Pacino as Serpico, one lone idealist who exposes the department and lives — just barely — to tell the tale. When the RAMPART report in...
In this country, all children are supposed to have a shot at success — a chance to jump "from rags to riches" in one generation. Even if riches remain out of reach, then the belief has been that every hard-working American should be able...
Every year, nearly 40,000 Americans kill themselves. The majority are men, and most of them use guns. In fact, more than half of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides. Experts and laymen have long assumed that people who died by...