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woodleywonderworks/flickr Teaching Kids About Sexual Assault
At increasingly young ages, programs aim to teach children about healthy relationships and create places where parents, teachers, and children feel they can speak up about abuse. The message cannot obscure the fact that adults, not children, are responsible for keeping children safe.
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AP World Health Organization: No, Seriously, Stop Abusing Antibiotics
In a consciously alarming report today, the agency said, "Without urgent action, we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries can once again kill."
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55Laney69/flickr How We Grieve on Social Media
In expressing support and condolences after tragedy, the distance provided by social media is extraordinarily safe, but that doesn't make the process less meaningful.
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spDuchamp/flickr Study: Bullied Kids at Risk for Mental Health Problems 40 Years Later
Frequent and occasional bullying were both associated with a higher risk for depression, psychological distress, suicidal thoughts, and anxiety disorders in middle age.
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Kelly Sikkema/flickr Prescribing Mushrooms for Anxiety
A New York University research team is using hallucinogenic experiences to help patients come to terms with their mortality.
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AP/Amin/Hamblin Who Will Watch You Fall? A Radar Detection Program for the Elderly
With age comes risk of serious injury or death related to falling down. In the next three decades, the number of Americans over 65 will double. Many want to live at home indefinitely. One man has a solution.
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Mike Segar/Reuters Slimming Down Alone, Together
Weight loss is often framed as a personal endeavor, but the best outcomes stem from group efforts.
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U.S. National Archives and Records Adminstration Turning Bacon Into Bombs: The American Fat Salvage Committee
During World War II, the U.S. government urged Americans to save excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives.
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Wikimedia Commons In Which a Man Is Not Acquiring a Woman: A Wedding Redesign
Some Jewish couples are developing alternatives to a gendered, heterosexual matrimonial ceremony that can still work within Jewish tradition and law.
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flupirupi/flickr Everyone's a Health Nut on Monday
New research shows that people are more health-conscious at the start of each new week, so health advocates are encouraging everyone to harness the psychological power of Mondays.
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AI Project / Reuters The Private Lives of Public Bathrooms
How psychology, gender roles, and design explain the distinctive way we behave in the world's stalls
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Charles Platiau/Reuters Recognizing When Kids Benefit From Their Parents' Divorce
"Would kids really be better off if their parents stayed together, fighting and yelling and tiptoeing around?"
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Lattanzio Gambara/National Gallery of Art Avoiding the Black Plague Today
Though it calls to mind medieval massacre, the deadly infectious disease known simply as plague is still around. New research on how the disease spreads helps us better understand the pandemic that killed up to 100 million people, and how to continue to keep it in check.
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Neon Tommy/flickr The Problem With 'Man-Bag' and Other 'Man' Words
What's really going on when we use "male" versions of terms for typically feminine things?
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tmab2003/flickr Study: Music Is Just Advertisement for Alcohol Brands
Mentions of drinking or alcohol brands in music are associated with binge drinking in adolescents who listen to (and enjoy) the songs.
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northcharleston/flickr Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. That doesn't have to be the case.
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Bob Galbraith/AP Looking for Answers in a Town Known for Leukemia
A small town once plagued by the most significant childhood-cancer cluster on national record—Fallon, Nevada—has become a case study in outbreak investigation.
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Ben Curtis/AP This Is Resilience
One of history's darkest spasms of inhumanity began 20 years ago this week. Remembering unfathomable tragedy and celebrating unprecedented health progress in Rwanda.
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Guian Bolisay/flickr When Doctors Act on Tradition and Emotion Over New Science
This week a major journal published new recommendations for treating high blood pressure and cholesterol. But doctors are often reluctant to change old habits.
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One Man's Story of Eating-Disorder Recovery
Brian Cuban, younger brother of relentless billionaire Mark Cuban, on a life of shame and rejection—and what turned it around
