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Katie Davis spends her afternoons and evenings in therapy sessions with kids. As a clinical psychologist in private practice on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Davis helps young patients through severe anxiety, mood disorders and other mental health challenges in order to improve their educational attainment. She says she’s “taking on all of their struggles,” and […]
As London’s murder rate overtakes New York’s, with 50 deaths recorded in 2018 alone, undercover police officers and ‘Al Capone’ tactics are now being deployed to tackle the crime epidemic. The officers, who will operate alongside highly visible uniformed ones, have been trained in behavioral science to spot any suspected criminal behavior. It comes after […]
The vaping device has become a coveted teen status symbol and a growing problem in high schools and middle schools, spreading with a speed that has taken teachers, parents and school administrators by surprise.
University students on Vancouver Island have launch a program to address the trauma experienced by children affected by the opioid epidemic.
DISEASE X has been identified as a mystery pathogen by World Health Organisation scientists, who believe it may have the potential to cause a deadly outbreak as bad as Zika or Ebola – or even worse. But how could Disease X cause a global epidemic? One expert explains how animals could be to blame.
It was while training as a medical student, hunched over a seven-hour facial reconstruction, that Alan González realized he was destined for a career in plastic surgery. But it wasn’t until later, when he was an established physician and 16-year-old Erika Vanegas walked into his office, that the course of his career began to change. […]
Drug distributors “knew the amount of opioids allowed to flow into Ohio far exceeded what could be consumed for medically necessary purposes, but they did nothing to stop it,” Ohio Attorney General says.
AP Photo/Susan Walsh Flu experts agree that the 2017-18 flu season may not be a full-blown pandemic, but it sure is nasty. The flu is widespread across 48 US states right now. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say doctors have been seeing as many patients as they did at the height […]
BRITAIN’S obesity crisis could be tackled if people started eating more slowly, according to new research. In a wide ranging study, scientists found consuming meals slowly could hold the key to losing weight – along with cutting out after dinner snacks and not eating two hours before bedtime.
Enlarge / Lungs of a coal worker, with black pigmentation and fibrosis from inhalation of coal dust. (credit: Yale Rosen) An epidemic of severe and rapidly progressive black lung disease is emerging among coal miners in Appalachia. Case counts from just three clinics in the region reveal the highest disease levels that doctors have ever […]
