Let's face it: Nutrition isn't mainstream in medicine.

According to a study out off the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 88 percent of medical school instructors feel that their students aren't getting adequate nutritional training.

The National Academy of Science does...

Even cowboys get the blues. Some bluer than others. Take Wyatt Webb, whose life 30 years ago was straight out of one of the country songs he was singing on the road -- complete with heartbreak, hopelessness and a bottle as his best friend. He was at the end of...

America's children are protected under the Child Abuse Prevention Act 1974; women's rights are ensured under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Why wouldn't our seniors have the same security? Now's the time to pass the Elder Justice Act. You can help.

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"As many as one in three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some other way ... Violence kills and disables as many women between the ages of 15 and 44 as cancer. And its toll on women's health surpasses that of traffic accidents and malaria combined."...

It would be too easy to make this story about the hardships and woes of young kids in an underserved community. With 36 percent of youth under 18 in Newark, NJ, living in poverty, many are not likely to graduate high school.  But zip codes don't dictate individuals' drive to...

Media outlets are getting the drift that a daily dose of heavy news isn't enough for well-rounded brains.

There's a trend catching on in the news; it's called seeing the bright side. Hold your eye rolls, please. Despite associations with earnest idealism, "goodness" is a smart sell. It comes...