The online smears, threats, and disinformation against a public health official would be obscene under any circumstance — and they are especially so now, in light of the prudent, science-backed ...

In 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, an estimated 1 million Americans entered a hospital emergency room for treatment of an overdose due to “nonmedical” use of an ...

There's an article up at OpenDemocracy.net that's attempting to be contrary and counterintuitive about the Bush administration's "war on science." I must say, I found it fairly feeble. The author's ...

CHRIS MOONEY is the Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and the author of "The Republican War on Science." ALAN SOKAL is a professor of physics at New York University and the coauthor of ...

Scams. Shady caregivers. Poor care. Elder mistreatment has many faces — from financial exploitation to physical and emotional abuse. About 10 percent of those 60 and older are reportedly affected by ...

Official reports of child abuse may overestimate the tendency of such maltreatment to run in families. Parents who were abused themselves as kids are more likely than nonabused parents to be reported ...

She had planned to start college that week. Instead, the young woman was sitting in my office, sobbing. She was not on my schedule, but she’d started to wait for me in the afternoons, saying I was the ...

About 1 in 8 American children will experience some form of maltreatment serious enough to be confirmed by government authorities, new research shows. Slightly more than 2% of kids are victimized ...

As a researcher who studies child sexual abuse prevention, most of my work entails asking people—including children—about their sexual experiences and behaviors. It’s fundamental: You can’t study sex ...

The online smears, threats, and disinformation against a public health official would be obscene under any circumstance — and they are especially so now, in light of the prudent, science-backed ...