In late September, more than 1,000 family members who have lost loved ones to drug overdoses rallied in Washington with an angry message: We’re Fed Up! with the epidemic of drug addiction in this country and the soaring number of overdose...
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Although drinking during pregnancy has long been considered taboo, new research suggests that as many as one in 20 U.S. children may have health or behavioral problems related to alcohol exposure before birth. The study found that between 2.4 percent...
About This Event: Please join me and invite your friends to come and talk about all the great work happening in Alameda County October 28th 4pm at A'Cuppa Tea 2992 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705 Jasmine Pettis, MPH, CLE Community Manager
The books I have written have each been dedicated to the same two people: my wife and my psychotherapist. My psychotherapist preceded my wife. He also preceded my writing. I found him one summer afternoon by a stroke of luck, when, 27 years old...
Pope Francis continues to speak out on issues that have long scared off even the bravest American politicians. In a remarkable speech before international penal-law representatives on Oct. 23, the leader of the Catholic Church called for an end...
In “Why Doctors Need Stories” (Sunday Review, Oct. 19), Dr. Peter D. Kramer indirectly explores “the art of medicine.” This craft consists of the elegant combination of clinical judgment, anticipation, communication and...
In 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem. The geologist and author of several books was left completely unable to communicate, in a state known...
As many as 4 million Europeans and 3•5 million Americans experience homelessness every year, and the numbers are rising. Homeless people "are the sickest in our society," but just treating ill health might not be enough to help...
At the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino County, gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) people are punished twice: first, for the crimes they allegedly committed and again, simply for being GBT. Unlike non-GBT inmates who are housed...
Page May had only one word for it: torture. That was how she and others with the new activist group We Charge Genocide are classifying police brutality in Chicago in a report compiled for the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the...
In a sobering decision, the Illinois Supreme Court recently upheld the automatic adult prosecution of a 15-year-old who was living in a state residential home due to long-standing neglect by his family. Unlike its earlier decisions upholding transfer...
Last month, Medical News Today investigated what the adult health consequences - both psychological and physical - of childhood bullying may be. Among the adverse effects linked with a history of being bullied, our feature briefly touched on some...
It's not uncommon, when Republicans score a major political victory, for American liberals to throw up their hands and say, "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada." More often than not, it's an empty threat—deterred either by the intricacies...
Into the rippling fountain water they go — all the burdens Marsha Phelps carries from another day in her sixth-grade classroom. Gone with a toss of her hand are the bouts of disrespect, the eye rolls of a defiant child, the fatigue in...