For years, the sex trade was ‘their’ problem, a heinous part of culture in poorer nations. But attention here to sex trafficking has slowly increased in recent years with the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection...
Feeling stress about finances leads some Black adults to rate their health more poorly, finds a new study in the American Journal of Health Behavior . While lower income and education among minorities have been linked to poor health for decades,...
Pregnant women with chronic hypertension (high blood pressure) are highly likely to suffer from adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery, low birth weight and neonatal death, which highlights a need for heightened surveillance, suggests a...
A first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the University of Minnesota found that on average nationally, people of color are exposed to 38 percent higher levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) outdoor air pollution compared to white people. Nitrogen...
Renee Butkus and Arlene Weissman, Ph.D., from the American College of Physicians in Washington, D.C., conducted a survey of 573 internists (response rate, 56.5 percent) regarding experiences, practice behaviors, and opinions related to firearms...
The size and shape of two brain regions involved in emotion and motivation may differ in young adults who smoke marijuana at least once a week, according to a study published April 16 in The Journal of Neuroscience . The findings suggest that...
This is a view from the coastal trail near Muir Beach in California. It's a steep climb to this vantage point, but well worth the hard work. As mentioned in the weekly newsletter, we'll be doing mini-profiles of ACEsConnection members. Here's my...
...To begin with, the dramatic disparities the rates of nonfatal gunshot injury: overall it’s 46.5 per 100,000 for the city as a whole from 2006-2012. It’s 1.62 per 100,000 for whites; 28.72 for Hispanics, and 112.83 for blacks. For all...
...At Mount Saint Vincent, children's treatment begins with an evaluation of their brains, based on a system developed by Houston-based ChildTrauma Academy. The first tests seem like part of a comprehensive medical checkup: resting heart rate, gag...
The most salient finding is that increases in emotional difficulties are associated with lags in cognitive development for two separate measures of learning within and across multiple study sites. Exposure to potentially traumatic events, male gender,...
The percentage of Americans with diabetes has doubled since 1988, with nearly one in 10 adults now diagnosed with the blood-sugar disease, researchers report. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes was 5.5...
Mental health assessment and care coordination by a social worker eased anxiety and depression after hospitalization for heart disease, the MOSAIC trial showed. Mental health-related quality of life improvements were twice those achieved with usual...
...About 80% of the clients at Metro Community Provider Network have some behavioral or psychosocial component of their care. Metro Community didn't find zeroing in on their highest utilizers moved the needle on controlling costs. Instead, they...
The offspring of mice that suffered early-life stress show signs of the disturbance their parent experienced, researchers from the University of Zurich and their colleagues have found, pointing to a potential RNA-based mechanism by which trauma may be...