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  I n a study of more than 5,500 school teachers to estimate the prevalence of depressive disorders in workers with burnout, 90% of the subjects identified as burned out met diagnostic criteria for depression.   The study also examined the...

  We get it, you’re busy. But it turns out you don’t need very much time in the gym to improve your health. In fact, it might only take one—yes one—high intensity minute of exercise to do the trick.   New research...

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The families of nine people killed in the Newtown school massacre filed a lawsuit against the maker and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting, saying the gun should not have been sold for...

  Nick Meza, 18, recently had another five-day round of chemotherapy at the outpatient clinic here at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Usually those days drag for Nick, an Eagle Scout with a flashing grin, a hunger for conversation,...

Distrust of police prevents many Hispanic Americans from calling 911 when someone is suffering cardiac arrest, a new study reveals. "Residents of low-income, minority neighborhoods have two strikes against them: The incidence of out-of-hospital...

  A stretch of dry, empty prairie where the Sand Creek Massacre took place in Colorado has hardly changed in a century and a half. Back in December 1864, America was still months from the end of the Civil War. Gen. William Sherman was making...

  It seems long ago now, but in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, murders and robberies exploded as cocaine and other illegal drugs ravaged American cities. Then came June 19, 1986, when the overdose of a college athlete sent the nation into shock just...

  With brutality by guards at the Rikers Island jail complex rising at an alarming rate, the chief investigator for the New York City Correction Department stood before a roomful of senior officers and union leaders in the summer of 2012 and...

  ....Each time an idol falls, we also lose a sense that justice, criminal or social, is a possibility – that there are true consequences for grave mistakes. Perhaps 2014 was not a year of fallen idols. It was a year when we began to see...

As executive director of Tumbleweed Runaway Program in Billings, MT, Sheri Boelter understands the challenges of serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in rural places.   Residents may hold onto traditional beliefs...

  “ Social Connectedness and Self-Esteem: Predictors of Resilience in Mental Health among Maltreated Homeless Youth ” (abstract). Michelle T. Dang. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 35 (2014).   What it’s about:  One...

  "Is my 18-month old already behind for schooling?" That was the subject line of a recent post on the D.C. Urban Moms and Dads online discussion forum. The anonymous author was reacting to an article written by a mom who had hired an education...