Allison Van Dusen has a nice writeup of Seasonal Affective Disorder over at Forbes.com:

For sufferers, January and February tend to be the months when …

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It was hard to miss a story titled “Straighter teeth won’t guarantee happiness” if only because the premise sounded pretty strange. Sure enough, scientists …

My oldest brother has been living with ulcerative colitis for years now. It’s one of those chronic medical conditions that can usually be well …

The California Literary Review has an in-depth, interesting interview with the latest Sigmund Freud biographer, Peter D. Kramer. You may remember Kramer as the …

Some online self-help communities seem to have been having a hard time of things lately.

Last summer, the long-running BrainTalk Communities went offline for nearly …

A recent article posted on Science Daily.com titled “Social Workers may indirectly experience post-traumatic stress“, discusses the impact that post traumatic stress disorder affected …

It seems logical that if a mother is under significant stress during pregnancy that the child may be at increased risk for some problems. Research …

There is ongoing debate across the country about the type of insurance coverage that people with psychological disorders receive. For many people, insurance comes up …

ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources which serves tens of thousands cancer survivors and people seeking information and emotional support for cancer exchanging over …

A report on a study about antidepressants putting the elderly at risk for bone fractures hit the wires earlier this week. Researchers essentially found …

People who take medication to treat a mental illness often face opinions and advice from friends (and strangers) whose ignorant ideas about medication come from …

There are millions of Americans who are not covered for health insurance because they can’t afford or their employer doesn’t provide it (or some combination …