The Daily Dose: Pill Popping, Hand Transplants and How Unemployment Makes You Sick

RxAmerica: Nearly half of all Americans have taken a prescription drug in the last month, according to the Center for Disease Control's National Center of Health Statistics. So what are we on? Asthma treatment was the most common prescription for the 20% of American children on medication. Stimulants appeared most frequently among adolescents, while middle-aged [...]

Veronica’s View: Young, Black, Gifted and Gone

*It was an ordinary day when he committed an unordinary act. Corey ended his life. While many people were just waking up to get ready for church, a South Los Angeles couple was awakened by a call that their fourth child had taken his own life.They were leveled by the news. The sound emitted from [...]

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Boettcher named instructor of the year | © 2010 Longmont Times-Call

Terri Boettcher of BC Services Inc. has been named Instructor of the Year by the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals.

Wagner College psychologist analyzes dad's slashing frenzy

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Douglas Nemeth attacked his family and then slashed his own throat, he was struggling to take command of a situation he had lost control of. That’s the theory put forth by a psychologist interviewed about...