If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This weekend, the three of us were browsing through the toy store at the local mall, when I came upon a display of stuffed Transformers characters (they actually transformed, and were all fabric and velcro; pretty much what one [...]
Saturday night I went to the movies with my next door neighbour. I had planned on going alone, but happened to hear him outside with his son while I was grilling dinner, and thought I’d invite him. (We both have the same infrequent “date nights” with our wives due to a lack of [...]
Victims of violence within a partnership have poorer health and engage in riskier behaviors than individuals who haven`t had such experience. This is based on a study by researchers at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC.
A national telephone survey of 70,156 adults showed that 13 to 31% of women and [...]
It seems that the incidence of asthma in children is on the rise – especially in low income neighborhoods in urban areas. And it`s not only pollutants and other chemicals that trigger the attacks.
The link between air pollution and asthma is well-established. However, researchers at the American Lung Association thought there may be other factors [...]
These are the kinds of things you know you never want to happen to you: rape, extreme poverty, war. Throw in a feeling of displacement, of never belonging, of never being able to come home.
In times of crisis, it seems that the incidences of rape increases. In several alarming cases reported in [...]
