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  Mental Health and Guns
  Topic by Kirsten N Lemmons

  On July 20, 2012, 24-year-old University of Colorado student James Eagan Holmes entered a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, that was showing The Dark Knight Rises , and opened fire. His actions killed 12 movie goers and left several more severely injured. After the mass killing in Aurora,...

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  Indoor Tanning: an Issue of Addiction?
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  With salon names like Half-Baked Tanning, Electric Tan, Sun UR BUNZ, T-N-T Tanning and Sizzle, the tanning industry has been ripe for parody long before Kristen Wiig played the New Jersey tanning mom, Patricia Krentci, on SNL. While Krentci’s sun-logged complexion and alleged tanning abuses...

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  How Sleep Disorders Impact Health in Trauma Survivors
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  In a sample of female rape survivors with post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma-related sleep disorders had an indep...

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  Heroin Moves Away from Urban Centers, into the Hands of Youth
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  The little town in Indiana where much of my extended family lives just observed a somber anniversary. It marked a year since a young woman, age 18, overdosed on heroin and died. Her death forced residents there to recognize that heroin—a hard-core narcotic once identified with the gritty...

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  Mental Illness
  Article by Sue Abderholden MPH

  Involving families and friends in the lives of people with mental illnesses makes sense.

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  Chronic Pain in Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  I describe challenges for providers in understanding and diagnosing chronic pain. I also describe two common pain syn...

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  Violence against Women and the Perinatal Period: The Impact of Lifetime Violence and Abuse on Pregnancy and Postpartum
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  Abusive experiences, both past and present, can influence women throughout the childbearing cycle. Below is a summary...

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  Why Trauma Makes People Sick: Inflammation, Heart Disease and Diabetes in Trauma Survivors
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  Cytokines are proteins that regulate immune response and proinflammatory cytokines help the body heal wounds and figh...

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  Inflammation and Traumatic Stress: A Likely Mechanism for Chronic Illness in Trauma Survivors
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  Trauma survivors have higher than average rates of many chronic diseases and often die prematurely, as the studies de...

• PSYCHOTHERAPY AS SOCRATEAN DIALOGUE: Old wine in new wineskins
  Article by Daniel R Wilson, MD, PhD
• Food Allergies on the Rise
  Topic by Enelda Butler
• Parts for People: Biomaterials Experts Seek Consensus
  Article by Robert E Baier
• The Cost of Dementia in the United States
  Article by Michael Gordon
• Why Breastfeeding and Omega-3s Help Prevent Depression in Pregnant and Postpartum Women
  Article by Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett
• Ethics, Risk and Decision-making
  Article by Roger P Worthington
• Sjögren's Syndrome: Briefing Notes
  Article by Dr Dennis Lendrem
• Pronoia: From Paranoia to Feeling Good
  Article by Dr. Mel Borins
• A Pacemaker Challenge
  Article by Michael Gordon