Articles

Task Force Recommends Screening All Adults for Alcohol Misuse
Questions about alcohol use should be a part of regular physical checkups, according to a panel of experts. About 21% of American adults admit that they engage...

Drone Pilots: No Worse Off Than Those Who Actually Fly
A new Pentagon study contrasting the mental-health concerns of pilots who actually climb into the cockpit – as opposed to military drone drivers who sit at desks...
Mindy McCready
'I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos ... I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality.' As a young...

Why Personality May Matter In Preventing Alcoholism
A program that takes personality into account may help to identify and reduce teen drinking rates. Researchers studied 2,643 ninth-graders in England, aged 13...

Revisions to Mental Health Manual May Turn Binge Drinkers into ‘Mild’ Alcoholics
Are you an alcoholic— or just a problem drinker? It may not matter, according to the latest version of the DSM, psychiatry’s diagnostic manual. And now, in a...
Photo Essays

Twilight of the Idol: A Portrait of Mickey Mantle in Decline
The greater the athlete, the tougher it is to leave the arena. History is filled with examples of players, in pretty much every sport, who should have hung up...


