Here's an article from The American Prospect on the relationship between poverty and life expectancy.  I was struck by the fact that over the past eighteen years, life expectancy for poor white women has actually decreased by some...

My first exposure to the ACE Study came in the fall of 2002, when I attended the annual conference for the group now known as The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. One of the plenary speakers was Dr. Robert Anda, whose...