My first sight of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Artesia, New Mexico reminded me of stories I heard from Japanese Americans who as children were held in internment camps. FLETC is entirely comprised of trailers. The...
Ed. Note: Unless Congress acts, federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which matches state dollars to provide health coverage for children under 19 in low-income families, will end next year. Ed Walz is...
Translating from one language to another is a tricky business, and when it comes to interpreting between a doctor and patient, the stakes are even higher. Consider the story of 18-year-old baseball player Willie Ramirez . In 1980, Ramirez...
Last night the mental health and substance abuse advocacy communities celebrated the merger of two organizations -- the National Council for Behavioral Health and the State Associations of Addiction Services -- at the Meridian House in Washington,...
Not long after Marcia Stanton stumbled across the original article from the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study , she heard a conference presentation by Dr. Vincent Felitti, one of the study’s co-authors. She invited Felitti to...
At the Long Beach community health clinic where I’m a pediatrician, I’ve learned that the way you ask questions can be more powerful than any medication. For example, we saw a child who was struggling with her vision and clearly...
Obese children and teenagers already show hints of future cardiovascular problems, new research has found. German researchers studied 61 overweight and obese children 8-to 21-years-old, comparing them with 40 non-obese children of the same age. All...
Because of the well-known dangers of open defecation — especially for children’s health — bringing millions of latrines to the poor has long been a goal of public health experts. But now a major study in India has stunned advocates...
In a rare, detailed look at sexual assault and harassment on a university campus, M.I.T. revealed Monday that among undergraduates who replied to a survey, at least 17 percent of women and 5 percent of men said they had been sexually assaulted....
October is Domestic Violence (DV) Awareness month; DV takes many forms, including intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child maltreatment, bullying, suicidal behavior, and elder abuse and neglect. These forms of violence are interconnected and...
To the Editor: “Mental Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List” (front page, Oct. 19) highlights cases in which people on the list threatened murder, attempted suicide and exhibited manic behavior with a history of...
An increasing number of migrant children are being detained in countries where they are seeking asylum despite a growing body of scientific evidence that such incarceration leads to long-term psychological and developmental difficulties. The UN...
University of Adelaide neuroscientists have discovered that just one session of aerobic exercise is enough to spark positive changes in the brain that could lead to improved memory and coordination of motor skills. A study conducted by...
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified for the first time changes in the metabolic activity of a key brain region in patients successfully treated for depression with psychodynamic psychotherapy, suggesting a...
A study published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics for the first time demonstrates that traumatic stress may induce DNA breakage, but psychotherapy may heal it. Previous research reveals an association between traumatic stress and an increased risk...