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  People don't talk about psychiatrists the way they talk about neurologists, dentists or vets. In fact, there are those who call psychiatry voodoo or pseudoscience; and, to be fair, the specialty does have a history of claims and practices that...

  It is the small detail as much as the horrific event that stands out starkly in a governor-appointed panel’s final proposals for preventing another massacre like the one that took the lives of 20 children and six school workers in...

EvaluACTION  is designed for people interested in learning about program evaluation and how to apply it to their work. Evaluation is a process, one dependent on what you’re currently doing and on the direction in which you’d like go....

The above chart portrays the indicator trends of ACEs and health behaviors in the United Way of East Central Iowa Service Area which includes Iowa, Benton, Cedar, Jones, and Linn Counties.

  With the population growing and most of it happening in cities, these Canadian journalists wanted to take a closer look at whether our sprawling modern villages are up to the task of housing more humans. Over half of the world lives in urban...

  In 1990 The New York Times published a front-page article by Lawrence Altman, a reporter with a medical degree, announcing that scientists had discovered “a link between alcoholism and a specific gene.” That was merely one in a...

  Daniel Rosen, a senior State Department official arrested last month for soliciting sex online with a minor, was reportedly arrested again Sunday night in Washington, D.C., and charged with an earlier crime of voyeurism after police searched...

  Researchers have built a new computational tool that identifies 800 different ways people are at increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), permitting for the first time a personalized prediction guide. Results from the study out...

  Hollywood has given movie-goers many classic portrayals of grumpy old men—American Movie Classics even maintains a list of the top fifteen film curmudgeons. But new research suggests that getting older doesn't imply becoming cynical and...

  Let no educator, parent or advocate ever say parents don’t care about how their children do in school. Most really do, and given the right chance, will do all they can to help. Here in the heart of the nation’s poorest region, in a...

This patient isn’t usually mine, but today I’m covering for my partner in our family-practice office, so he has been slipped into my schedule. Reading his chart, I have an ominous feeling that this visit won’t be simple. A tall,...

Dr. Amit Sood, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and founder of the  Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing , narrates this animation, which he produced after becoming frustrated with how difficult it was to meditate. After he...