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Misconception: Migraines are psychological manifestations of women’s inability to manage stress and emotions Actually: Neurologists are very clear that migraines are a real, debilitating medical condition related to temporary abnormal brain activity. The fact that they may be more common for some women during “that time of the month” has nothing to do with emotions. For centuries, doctors explained migraines as a woman’s problem caused by emotional disturbances like hysteria, depression or...

Every year, U.S. hospitals treat hundreds of thousands of violent injuries. Often, the injured are patched up and sent home, right back to the troubles that landed them in the hospital in the first place. Now, as these institutions of healing are facing pressure under the Affordable Care Act to keep readmissions down, a growing number of hospitals are looking at ways to prevent violence. In Baltimore, health department workers have pitched hospitals an idea they want to take citywide. The...

With the goal of inventing better ways to move forward for the next generation of children, the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island will invest $715,000 over the next three years into helping northern Vancouver Island children suffering from trauma and neglect. On Monday, the organization brought together Diane Lloyd, interim CEO of the foundation, project co-leaders Dr. Carol Coxon and Dr. Bruce Perry to make the announcement at the Old House Hotel in Courtenay. The Healing...

On Tuesday evening students, staff, and community members attended a showing of “Paper Tigers” on campus at UAA. The showing was a joint effort of Alaska Children’s Trust, Prevent Child Abuse America and UAA Residence Life in recognition of National Public Health Week. The room was packed and there was an animated discussion after the film. “Paper Tigers’ clearly had a strong impact on everyone who attended. In the written evaluations everyone indicated that they would recommend the film to...

Dr. Allison Jackson of Richmond, VA is giving a Tedex Talk today on ACEs and need for more community involvement on this issue. She is scheduled to be on at 2:47 pm today, April 8, for about 10 minutes. There are three other speakers during the day speaking on trauma to a first time ever sold out crowd at RVA Tedex of1500 folks! The live stream link is available today on www.tedxrva.com .

Jennifer Rauhouse, founder and executive director of Peer Solutions, began standing against sexual, relationship and family violence in 1981. She received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology of Law and Speech Communication from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a teacher certification from Arizona State University. Rauhouse later worked as a volunteer coordinator at the Center Against Sexual Abuse (now the Casa Center for Positive Social Change ) and as a teacher at the Phoenix Union...

A change to a U.S. government nutrition program improved the diets of millions of young children in low-income families, a new study says. Researchers compared the eating habits of nearly 1,200 2- to 4-year-olds in low-income households before and after the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) was changed in 2009. With the revamp, more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat milk were included in the WIC food voucher package. The change improved...

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III drew on the spirit of his grandfather Robert F. Kennedy this morning, casting juvenile justice as an urgent civil rights issue in a rousing and eloquent keynote address at the inaugural Probation System Reform Symposium . He applauded the 200-plus symposium attendees, many of them people who work with children in the system, for being on the front lines of this movement and putting reforms into place that de-emphasize punishment and throwing children deeper into the...

By now, no one is debating the fact that economic inequality has grown substantially in the past few decades . It seems that almost every day there’s a new report showing that incomes and wealth continue to grow for the richest while everyone else struggles to make do. But when it comes to solutions, the conversation stalls. That may be because people are focusing on the wrong parts of of inequality, says Kevin Leicht, the head of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s sociology...

In the not too distant past, I am sure you can all remember a time driving in a car while not wearing a seatbelt. In fact, many grown adults can recall a time when, as children, they would crawl around the backseat of the car and even sit in the rear window while the car zoomed down the interstate. Today, I fret, with good reason, as to whether I adjusted the straps of my daughters NASA-approved car seat appropriately to keep her safe while, with my hands at 10 and 2, I cautiously inch my...

I spent the nineties growing up in San Francisco, which, like many cities in that decade, churned with swirls of startling change. Boulevards were beautified (although a shaggy indie scene managed to thrive on side streets). Coffee changed from canteen sludge to crisp black java, and still cost less than a sandwich . New museums opened. Trendy people pursued “desktop publishing” in warehouses long left to rot. Urban life means riding a pendulum between extremes: a city is always en route to...

On February 23, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a $100 million, three-year strategy to begin inquiries into the roots of violence against Indigenous women. Grassroots groups are asking why the United States has not responded to this crisis by allocating more resources to investigate violent acts on its soil. Valentine’s Day in Fargo, North Dakota, was cold this year: It was snowing and the wind blew sharply. A small group of about 12 to 14 Native American women and supporters,...