Being bullied as a child may take a larger toll on a young adult's mental health than being abused or neglected at home, a new study suggests. Kids who are the victims of bullies are more likely to experience anxiety, depression and to try to...
Acceptance of science has become increasingly polarized in the United States. Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the...
For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K-12 education. Armies of college graduates joined Teach for America. Zillionaires invested in charter schools. Liberals and conservatives, holding...
The Family Nurturing Center is on a mission to prevent future heroin abuse by intervening in the lives of children who have been traumatized. Northern Kentucky, a center of the nationwide heroin scourge, is seeing dramatic increases in...
There was a sense of idealism in the air in 1971 when Craig Ramey, a psychologist in his late 20s with a newly minted Ph.D., took a job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to launch what would become one of the longest-running educational...
Reducing the effects of significant adversity on young children’s healthy development is critical to the progress and prosperity of any society. Yet not all children experience lasting harm as a result of adverse early experiences. Some may...
The stories are all too common. A popular high school football player was found dead not far from his Grand Forks home in North Dakota and two high school students in Texas died after taking synthetic drugs. One took the drug mistaking it to be...
After two weeks of high tensions and mostly peaceful demonstrations in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, violence beset Baltimore on Monday afternoon and fanned through the city overnight. In the bright light of morning, answers may not be...
A global study of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods revealed that teenagers from Baltimore, a city located just 40 miles from the US capital, are faring worse than their counterparts in Nigeria. Many people tend to associate child...
Rona Renner -- a long-time nurse, parenting coach, author (Is That Me Yelling? A Parent's Guide to Getting Your Kids To Cooperate Without Losing Your Cool), and member of ACEsConnection -- hosts the radio show "About Health" on KPFA (FM 94.1) in...
Children who are exposed to an adverse childhood experience (ACE) are 28 percent more likely to develop asthma, according to a new study published in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The asthma risk increases even more with each additional ACE exposure. Asthma is one of the most common chronic childhood conditions, currently affecting seven million, or 9.5 percent, of children in the U.S., said researcher Robyn Wing, M.D., an emergency medicine...
Poor old Dr. Krebs. His painstaking Nobel-winning work on cellular metabolism, called the Krebs cycle, has made him the symbol for what's ailing medical education. "Why do I need to know this stuff?" medical students ask me. "How many times...
In the early morning, as the cold set in, Anaya Maze stood next to the charred remains of a CVS store. Holding a sign, she was the only protester left in front of a line of police officers dressed in riot gear. She is petite. Still, she faced...
Much of our recent reporting, especially from New Orleans, has focused on young people who are neither in school, nor working. There are an estimated five and a half million of them, ages 16 to 24, in the United States. But what do we call...
Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the...