Mental Health

Millions of Americans suffer with depression – and traditional medications used to treat the illness are expensive, and can have a ...

Guests: Brooke Gladstone On the Media’s ...

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.

Sleep is the new skinny. Americans are obsessed with a good night’s rest — after decades of viewing sleep as a waste of time for ...

Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are sta ...

There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe ...

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

Guests: Margot Sanger-Katz, Julie Rovner, Ralph Muller The Senate released their health care plan to repeal and r ...

Guests: Angela Nagel, Jillian Jordan, Conor Friedersdorf Political discourse has turned into an outrage machine. ...

Powerful and surprisingly prevalent horrors are blocking access to education and ravaging children’s lives. Sadly, they remai ...

A busy journalist and mom test drives tools from “happiness science.” When the architects of America wrote about the p ...

Something about crazy drunk Omar being dead. On a friend’s facebook page. That’s how I got the news last week. That’s one of the ug ...

Guest: Mitch Prinstein Most of us have some painful memories from our school days – maybe we were always the la ...

Many recovery homes in Philadelphia are not licensed, unregulated and are illegally receiving thousands of dollars per month from drug tr ...

Guests: Emile Bruneau, Dannagal Young, Kevin Arceneaux In these increasingly polarized times, it can be difficult ...