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Yes, it’s hot outside. And football practice is starting for thousands of kids. But coaches and parents should be careful about tellings kids to drink more water. That has been deadly.
Low pay pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, causing more crashes and more traffic deaths.
Are most homeless mentally ill? Is it inevitable that a society will have homeless people? A researcher digs into the real data on homelessness.
Most European nations have seen suicide rates fall by 20 percent or more. Research is limited, but some studies blame US inequality.
The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling extends strong protection to the First Amendment ‘right of silence’ and continues their trend of expanding First Amendment rights, often at the behest of conservatives.
The Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to post signs with information about family planning services.
People’s most private information isn’t on paper locked in desks anymore – it’s online, stored on corporate servers. The Supreme Court now says some privacy protections cover that data.
Children with cancer often experience terrible pain. Adults who treat them are determined to lessen their suffering. Can the lessons from helping kids with cancer pain inform treatment for adults in pain?
Just as with so many other criminal justice policies, pretrial detention disproportionately affects African-American men and women, destabilizing black families in the process.
Privacy rules enacted in Europe are affecting companies – and their customers and users – all around the world.
Kids often experience anxiety when separated from parents for short periods. Longer separations, happening with some immigrant children, is a different matter, a leading child psychiatrist explains.
In the seven years since civil war erupted in Syria, refugees have fled the violence and destruction. But starting over in a new country after such experiences is much harder than it may seem.
Nestle pays the state a pittance in exchange for its water at a time when public awareness of water issues is rising.
Most people know that the First Amendment protects free speech. But two upcoming Supreme Court cases reveal how it also gives people in the US the right not to speak.
Bipolar disorder is an often misunderstood psychiatric illness. An expert defines it and explains how it is diagnosed and treated.
Whenever we apply that political or moral comparison, we set the bar for inhumanity as high as possible. Should the abyss of World War II really be the main measure for all things political?
When mass shootings occur, some people insist the focus should be on mental illness, not gun control. A psychiatrist explains how that view misses the mark.
A legal scholar looks at the new and narrowed definition of bribery by the US Supreme Court. In the future, will politicians doing favors for donors and friends ever be prosecuted for corruption?
On the heels of a new report that shows depression and anxiety are the top reasons college students seek counseling, a psychiatry professor lists a variety of factors behind the trend.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
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Director of the Washington Office of the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, Wayne State University
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Research Associate in Women's Health, Wayne State University
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Chair of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University
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Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Research Assistant in Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Wayne State University
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Professor of Supply Chain Management, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University
