Democrats lost control of the House but expanded their majority in the Senate, giving them more power to issue subpoenas that party senators say they plan to use to investigate price gouging and other inequities in American business. Democratic committee and subcommittee chairs have said they plan to ask companies to provide more information about …
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Do we care about children in America? Will the president? This is a question that people across the country should seriously ask themselves. The country has been struggling with a shortage of infant formula for nearly a year. What kind of society allows this to continue in the shadows? How is this not a hot …
When Porter Burks began to experience a mental health crisis on October 2, his family called 911 in hopes of receiving help for the 20-year-old who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Instead, five Detroit police officers arrived at the home, where they fired 38 rounds at Burks, killing him and leaving his family forever shattered. …
America has a mental health crisis. Jail is not the answer. Read More »
What better time than the middle of the holidays – the zenith of the consumption of high-calorie cookies, cakes, pies, puddings and pastries – to bring a message of absolution to those of us who are struggling to hold back? There is a new vision of obesity which explains that it is not only about …
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Elaine Lalanne, 96, encouraged Americans to get up and move for nearly half a century alongside her late husband, Jack Lalanne. (Photo: Getty Images and Caitlin Murray) Shameless is a Yahoo Life series where people get the chance to share how they’re living their best lives — out loud and in color, without fear or …
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JThe prevailing mental health system today still operates, to a large extent, on an old paradigm. This paradigm reduces mental health problems to supposedly dysfunctional characteristics inherent in an organism. It is, however, a particular way of thinking about things. In this way of thinking, mental distress is seen as static – a predetermined category …
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