FDA Advises Against 'Gas Station Heroin' Supplement Due to Health Risks; Why is Tianeptine Dangerous?

Medicine & Technology Jan 30, 2024

FDA advised consumers to avoid buying and taking tianeptine, or gas station heroin. Read to learn more.

Animal Cruelty: Woman Prohibited From Keeping Any Pet After She Offered Drugs, Flushed Monkey in Toilet

Aug 25, 2022

A woman was prohibited from keeping all animals for life after pleading guilty of maltreating her marmoset monkey. Read to know more about it.

Vaccine Hesitancy Linked to Vital Childhood Details Possibly From Abuse, Neglect of Parents

Apr 11, 2022

Vaccine resistance in adults has been observed to be linked to key childhood details in participants from a long-running cohort. Read on to find out a negative living situation during a person's early-life influences their perception of medical details especially vaccines.

Study Finds Link Between Obesity and Childhood Abuse, Socioeconomic Background

Nov 27, 2020

This finding proposes that improving child welfare, like by rising prevention measures for abuse, will also reduce obesity when they grow up.

Brain Scans Reveal How Badly Emotional Abuse Damages Kids

Jun 14, 2019

The brains of emotionally abused children are less developed, experts say

Mental Care Services Rejected Children

Oct 14, 2015

Children with problems that stem from abuse have been rejected by local specialist NHS mental health services.

In Chimpanzee Sexual Selection, Nice Guys Finish Last

Nov 15, 2014

Behavioral studies of our close relatives the chimpanzee often reveal origins of what we believe to be distinctly “human” interactions. Grooming behavior, child rearing and even gang formation have all been identified in chimpanzee populations, but in a recent study conducted in Tanzania, researchers from Arizona State University say that they may have found the origins or far more disturbing behavior—bullying and male-on-female violence.