A close family friend of one of the suspects in the Tulsa, OK, shootings in which Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, are being held in the deaths of three African-Americans says it wasn't hate that led England to his actions, but past...
You've probably heard about the research in Pediatrics showing that children born to obese mothers are at higher risk of autism. "The study of more than 1,000 children found that the offspring of obese mothers had a 67 percent higher risk...
In this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Peter Vash , a physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, described a several-year journey with a morbidly obese patient that ended with...
Walla Walla, WA, recently hosted Dr. Vincent Felitti as keynote speaker to our second annual Violence Prevention Conference March 26-27. It was a whirlwind of events for the community- and Dr. Felitti! In addition to the conference, Dr....
In 2006, 4,569 kids under the age of 18 were hospitalized as a result of child abuse; 300 of those children died. So the U.S. could use more methods to protect children, according to this story by Bonnie Rothman on Time's Healthland . She describes a...
Saw this on Huffington Post this morning: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/03/sarahs-law-helped-to-protect-hundreds-of-children_n_1400937.html
One of the issues that many pediatricians and family practitioners have in screening for child trauma is the lack of effective treatment for the child. Jane Brody did a terrific post on the New York Times Well blog about a therapy that...
Since this is National Child Abuse Prevention Month , you're likely to see many editorials and op-eds on the subject. Here's one from today's Statesmanjournal.com . Bill Day's illustration about verbal abuse (above) for this editorial is,...
Nate (l) and Nico Winegar play with pinwheels that symbolize Port Townsend's "Our Kids: Our Business" campaign Last week, I posted a story about how a family services clinic in Port Townsend, WA, includes childhood trauma in regular health...
March 13, 2012 Dr. Mary G. Warren, PhD, IMH-E® (IV) Best for Babies Dependency Court Children's Mental Health Coordinator Never Shake A Baby Arizona Coordinator Prevent Child Abuse Arizona PO Box 26495 ...
Randall Reitz, PhD, Director of the Behavioral Science at St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency in Grand Junction Colorado and active participant in the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), and I have written a "Point Counter...
A man who stabbed his girlfriend 12 times in February pled guilty to attempted murder yesterday, a little more than a month after the assault. The case was part of a project to fast-track family violence cases in Minneapolis area, according to this...
Rashad Byrdsong, the founder of Community Empowerment Association (CEA), a nonprofit community development organization in Pittsburgh, thinks that poverty needs to be addressed through a public-health lens, according to this post by ...
The afternoon turned from rainy to sunny outside the 100-year-old farmhouse in Winters while eight members of the NorCal ACErs engaged in a captivating discussion about what drew each of us to devote some or most of our time to implementing ACE...
Burtt Richardson, Gladys Richardson, Marcia Stanton (pictured above, left to right) and I had a long lunch yesterday in Phoenix. Burtt's a retired pediatrician who practiced in Maine for decades. Gladys is married to Burtt and does community...