Last week, I asked whether readers felt the diagnoses Asperger syndrome and PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified) should be removed from the diagnostic manual. If they were removed, people with those diagnoses would presumably be reclassified as simply "on the autism spectrum." A signficant majority of you (65%)...

This week a headline snagged my attention in Google news proclaiming Bipolar Disorder Increases 4,000 Percent in Children and Adolescents. The article is Lynette Fleming's review of the book The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World by Anthony Rao and Michelle Seaton. The basic premise...

Whether you agree with the approach or not, the new rap style video about women and lung cancer produced by the Lung Cancer Alliance is bound to get your attention. Meant to educate younger viewers, this video teaches us that lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of women...