Veteran Teaches Therapists How To Talk About Gun Safety When Suicide's A Risk
The VA is now training counselors in how to better understand and bring up guns and gun safety without alienating clients who are combat veterans.
Mental Health
In West Virginia, Men In Recovery Look To Trump For A 'Helping Hand'
Residents of a drug treatment center in Huntington, W.Va., hope President Trump follows through on promises to fight the addiction crisis. Many are worried about how they'll pay for their health care.
Prion Test For Rare, Fatal Brain Disease Helps Families Cope
Scientists now have a fairly noninvasive way to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare form of dementia. A similar test, they say, might offer earlier diagnoses of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Military Widows Find Hope And Understanding Together
In the past, women seeking help from the American Widow Project were young women whose husbands had been killed in combat. Today, their husbands are dying on U.S. soil.
Not Getting Enough Sleep? Camping In February Might Help
Living most of life indoors can get your body clock out of phase. A fairly painless way to synch it is to spend a weekend camping, researchers say. Even the dim light of winter will do.
Young Girls Are Less Apt To Think That Women Are Really, Really Smart
Girls are less likely to identify their own gender as brilliant than boys are, even at age 5. One question is whether it's the girls who need to change their thinking about innate intelligence.
Rural Colorado's Opioid Connections Might Hold Clues To Better Treatment
Opioid abuse is rising fast among those who live in rural areas. Research suggests the drugs' illicit use there spreads rapidly via social networks, which could be part of the solution, too.
How To Get Dads To A Parenting Class? Ask Them To Read To Their Kid
In a world of mom-focused parenting classes, this class got low-income Latino dads engaged by focusing on a tangible skill: reading to their preschoolers. It ended up helping dads and kids alike.
Haight Ashbury's Free Health Clinic: Middle-Aged And Still Groovy
A series of mergers with other nonprofit clinics has transformed the 50-year-old San Francisco clinic into a $110 million health care system that provides networked care up and down California.
Treating 'Imaginary Illness' In 'Is It All In Your Head?'
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan about her new book Is It All In Your Head? O'Sullivan chronicles the stories of patients she's diagnosed with psychosomatic disorders.