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The brain doesn’t fully develop until about the age of 25. This fact is sometimes quite surprising and eye opening to most adults. It can also be somewhat overwhelming for new parents and professionals who are interacting with babies and young children every day, to contemplate. It is essential to realize however, that the greatest time of development occurs in the years prior to kindergarten. And even more critical to understand is that by age three 85 percent of the core structures of the...

Anxiety rooted in the hidden wounds from childhood need not be a lifelong sentence. A combination of effective strategies offer hope and help to alleviate anxious conditions, including excessive worry and panic attacks, that originate in childhood.

Use of the term “compliance” instead of “adherence” by healthcare regulatory entities and organizations, plus practitioners, health systems and their and employees condones the blaming of patients for poor outcomes. It’s time to change this practice!

For moving past hidden wounds from childhood, mindset matters. These important attitudes undergird the process of healing from adverse childhood experiences.

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

(This is a review of what I believe is an important new resource for the PACEs [for positive and adverse childhood experiences] science movement. Opinions expressed are my own, and are shared as a parent, advocate, author, and longtime student of trauma, healing, and prevention. Thoughts are also shared through my lens as someone who believes, deeply, in the incredible importance of and value in building healthier, more compassionate communities to support and nurture pregnant and new...

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 21 procedures and conditions. © Shutterstock To read more of Kristina Houck's article, please click here, These San Diego Hospitals Are Among Best In Nation: U.S. News (msn.com) SAN DIEGO, CA — Several hospitals in San Diego County are among the best hospitals in the country, according to Best Hospitals rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The 34th edition of the rankings recognizes the top 484 regional hospitals,...

via RDNE Stock project/Pexels A young man suffering a heart attack is administered CPR. To read more of Tod Perry's article, please click here. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, heart attack deaths have become more common in the United States, and the largest increase has been among younger people. According to a September 2022 study by Cedars Sinai Hospital , heart attack deaths among those aged 25 to 44 rose 29.9% over the first two years of the pandemic. The same study showed that over...

Julia Minson and her mom. Julia Minson To read more of Laura Krewel's article, please click here. When Julia Minson was in graduate school, her mother was diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer. It was a difficult time, and to cope, Minson became a student of the disease. She read through clinical studies and learned all the terminology she could. Her research uncovered something she found promising: a new experimental drug that had a small chance of helping her mom. But when she brought...

Disturbing thought patterns linked to shame are learned. They can be challenged and replaced.

Trauma-informed, disordered eating prevention training for physicians launches in South Carolina after 13 years of collaborative efforts.

Photo Credit: Walt Stoneburner, Flickr Creative Commons By Michelle Crouch, The Charlotte Ledger, July 5, 2023 -- With foster homes in short supply, more than 55 children over the past year have spent at least one night sleeping on an air mattress in a Mecklenburg government conference room; “It’s as bad as it’s ever been.” Dozens of children have been forced to sleep on the floor of Mecklenburg County offices over the past year because of a severe shortage of foster homes and crisis beds,...