Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-LedgerAn empty lot for sale on Hopkins Place in Irvington. Essex County has the highest poverty rate in New Jersey
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Restore tax credit and protect children's health care | NJ.com
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP 2009 file photoAbortion rights and anti-abortion demonstrators marched in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling that articulated a woman’s right to a safe and …
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Abortion bill is an assault on women's health care | NJ.com
Acne has been associated with stress and diet for eons. Now finally, we can see how the stress-diet connection may be reconceptualized as the brain-gut connection that impacts the skin.
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Srinivasan Pillay: Acne and Stress Connected Through the Brain
The Commonwealth Fund annual scoreboard on children’s health ranks Alabama No. 37.
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Alabama rates in lowest 15 states for children's health | al.com
When we’re tired of fighting the sadness and tired of feeling bad, can we face the depression with compassion and curiosity and ask it what it’s here to teach us? Here are five ways you can let depression be your teacher.
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New Harbinger: 5 Steps for Letting Depression Be Your Teacher
Dr. Joanna M. Cain, who rose to national prominence during years at Oregon Health & Science University, abruptly resigned last week from a high-level post at Brown University’s Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I..
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Prominent women's health advocate Joanna Cain, formerly of OHSU …
The cost of depression (lost productivity and increased medical expenses) is $83 billion each year which exceeds the costs of the war in Afghanistan.
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Robert Leahy, Ph.D.: The Cost of Depression
Medications, shock therapy and exercise were part of the depression treatment guidelines issued by the American Psychiatric Association this month, along with a newer therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which a North …
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation treats depression, gains favor …
Today, Oct. 7, is National Depression Screening Day. It is held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week, and more than half a million people have been screened each year for depression since 1991.
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Memoirs On Depression: Autobiographical Writings On The Illness …
An emergency survey conducted door-to-door in coastal Alabama confirmed elevated levels of depression and stress following the oil spill and also detected possible effects, such as respiratory ailments, according to a preliminary …
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After oil spill, depression and stress levels rise in coastal …