A new Canadian study is the first to observe that the longer one suffers from active anorexia nervosa, the more likely a person’s DNA may be altered. This biological change may lead to additional changes in physical and mental health....
Finding child care is a challenge for most parents, so imagine if you're in the military and uprooting your family constantly. A recently launched Department of Defense website aims to help ease the child care search. "Service members move on...
An investigation into a possible hate crime is underway in Rapid City, S.D., after a group of men allegedly assaulted Native American kids at a minor league hockey game. The incident angered many in the community, and racial tensions in Rapid...
With the recent outbreak of measles originating from Disneyland, there's been no shortage of speculation, accusation and recrimination concerning why some people won't vaccinate their children. There's also been some — but only some...
By Andrea Blanch, Ph.D. and David Shern, Ph.D. As Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health wrote in a recent blog , precision medicine is a hot new topic in the research world. The basic idea is simple: Get the “right...
From 2/9/15 CT Mirror http://ctmirror.org/2015/02/09/op-ed-empathic-support-can-improve-healing-for-survivors-of-abuse/ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) are a public health crisis impacting more Americans than diabetes and heart disease combined....
First, let me start this blog by acknowledging that I am completely and strongly in favor of children and adolescents being vaccinated to prevent the spread of communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and human papiloma...
Mice genetically deficient in serotonin—a crucial brain chemical implicated in clinical depression—are more vulnerable than their normal littermates to social stressors, according to a Duke study appearing this week in the...
Stress may partly explain why young and middle-aged women have a worse recovery after heart attack, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Although 35,000 women under age 65 experience heart...
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adolescents who come out at school have higher self-esteem and lower levels of depression as young adults, compared to LGBT youth who don't disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity at school,...
While estimating the homeless population is difficult, about 1.3 million students in the U.S. were homeless at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. Children not enrolled in school, although their numbers are less easily measured, push the...
In a new challenge to police practices in Ferguson, Mo., a group of civil rights lawyers is suing the city over the way people are jailed when they fail to pay fines for traffic tickets and other minor offenses. The lawsuit, filed Sunday night...
When I was a kid, I liked this poem by Jean Little from her collection, Hey World, Here I Am!: Our History teacher says, "Be proud you're Canadians." My father says, "You can be proud you're Jewish." My mother says, "Stand up straight, Kate. Be...
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, childhood experiences can have a tremendous effect in various ways throughout a person’s life. Three Types of ACEs RWJF reports that there are three types of ACEs, or adverse childhood...