Fast Food and the Changing Definitions of Health
This article has some really great links and interesting charts throughout that really looks at the ways Subway, Taco Bell and other fast food restaurants are trying to change the definition of what is...
View ArticleAmerica’s Largest Mental Hospital Is a Jail
If you haven’t read this article yet, you should go ahead and take the time to understand what is happening in our correctional institutions. This article is mostly about Cook County (the Chicago...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Laws Don’t Lead To More Teen Use
So, there’s a study that has been going on since 1991, where 8th, 10th and 12th graders are possed about their marijuana use in the previous month. Every year, students in the mentioned grades have...
View ArticleGood Music Always Makes Your Heart Beat Faster
This is a wonderful article about the benefits of listening to good music. Apparently, cardiologists have discovered that good music actually increases your heart rate, which is really a great thing...
View ArticlePoor Fathers who Can’t Afford Child Support Aren’t Necessarily Dead Beat Dads
With Father’s Day a few days away, I think this article is incredibly important. Maybe you can’t pay exactly what the court is requiring, but there are a million other things you can do that will help...
View ArticlePost-concussion Depression and Anxiety linked to Brain Injury Patterns
This might be an important study that could help addicts receive improved care based on a better understanding of these common disorders. If we can continue to understand how brain injury affects...
View ArticlePositive Things That Come With Great Loss
Grief is a seriously tough emotion to process through, wehther you were super close to the situation or just on the fringes. And there are several different reasons that warrant grieving. There’s the...
View ArticleMoody Mice Cheer Up with Happy Memories
I know, I know, how weird that I’m posting about moody mice. But look, even though this seems like the most basic of science, silly experiments that can figure out the part of the brain that stores...
View ArticleAlgae Bloom in California Shutting Down All Fishing
Commercial and recreational fishing has been shut down on the West Coast from California to Washington due to one of the largest toxic algae blooms ever seen off the coast of California. It seems like...
View ArticleKentucky has a Pill Problem
Suboxone was designed to help people safely decrease their heroine intake until they didn’t need it anymore. However, the pill effects the same receptors of heroine and other opiates. So, when Kentucky...
View ArticleThe Brain: Affective Empathy vs Cognitive Empathy
Have you ever had an argument with someone and the difference in how long the difficult between you two lasted was based on how emotional you both were and how quickly you could get to the rational...
View ArticleOD-Reversal Kits Are Saving Addicts
This is great news for the organizations and programs that support and provide the ‘family and friends OD-reversal’ kits. Better than that though, this is great news for the family and friends. Read...
View ArticleDementia And The Missing Elderly
There are several steps in the article below that may help find a missing person suffering from dementia. Sadly, not all elderly are found safe after wandering off. If you have someone in your sphere...
View ArticleHip-Hop Could Be The Key To Beating Mental Illness
Because of the fundamental message of hope found in hip-hop, this type of music could be (and is being used) to help combat some of our darker mental illnesses like bipolar episodes or periods of...
View ArticleMisconceptions about Mental Illness
Typically, I wouldn’t post an article from lifehacker as the articles are mostly opinion. That said, I thought the article below on the misconceptions about mental illness was well-written and well...
View ArticleKids Are Displaying Body Image Dissatisfaction At Really Young Ages
This article is about a month old, but I’m not sure it got near as much play as it should have. Based on a U.K. study, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, we now know that poor body image...
View ArticleCarbs may Contribute to Feeling Depressed
This article is about the affects Carbs and junk food can have on your state of mind. If you are feeling depressed, try eating healthier – it won’t be the end all be all, but it sure might help you...
View ArticleGloucester Police in Massachusetts are Sending Addicts to Rehab
The Police Department in Gloucester, Massachusetts is trying a revolutionary approach to decreasing the number of inmates in the prison system while helping addicts get their lives back on track. In...
View ArticleA Book that will Clean Water
This is an amazing break-through in the quest for providing every man and woman and child clean drinking water in every place around the world. The challenge, I think, will be the cost of getting this...
View ArticleA History of the Republican Love Affair with Planned Parenthood
Regardless of your personal politics, its important to understand the history of the issues (real or perceived) in an election season. Frankly, considering the vitriol surrounding Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleMillion Veteran Program data spurs research in Diabetes, Cancer and PTSD
A team of Vanderbilt and Nashville VA researchers have been awarded a VA grant to conduct diabetes and cancer research using the Million Veteran Program data. It will be exciting to see what...
View ArticleHow The Florida Governor’s Office Manipulated Media By Altering The Findings...
Hear me out on this one, please. When you click the link, you will see this article is from Media Matters for America. For those of you who do not know, Media Matters is a Web-based, not-for-profit,...
View ArticleBiomedical Informatics Degree Program
At the beginning of this week, I had the opportunity to go to New York and visit the Scientific Computing Department at Mount Sinai Medical School. The experience was incredible. For those of you that...
View ArticleBreaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty
The UN has vowed to wipe out poverty. Its a big goal, and I’m not really sure if its even viable. But while looking at some research on poverty this past week, I ran across the webpage below from the...
View ArticleAbusive Practices at Church
I can’t help but wonder if when John the Baptist started preaching and dunking people in the water, and then some guy named Jesus started walking through the country being kind to the down-trodden,...
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