Once each year comes Fire Prevention Week. It is always the week of Oct. 9, the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. It was on Oct. 9, 1871, when a conflagration occurred in the United States, now ...

I don't recall the first time I knew what suicide was, but I remember the first time it hurt. I recently had the privilege of listening to Vernon Stickman and Chris Grant speak about suicide ...

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A new study of school-based prevention programs focused on crime and substance abuse found that while schools implemented a large number of such programs during the 2004–05 school year, fewer than 10 ...

Across the country, America as a nation did an almost uniformly horrible job of tobacco control in 2011, according to the American Lung Association (via WebMD). Only seven states received a passing ...

Money invested in preventing students from dropping out of school is well spent, according to a five-year evaluation of Communities in Schools, a dropout-prevention program active in nearly 3,000 ...

Blair CK, Sloane R, Peterson B, Morey M, Lipkus I, Cohen H, Paxton R, Demark-Wahnefried W. (2012). Influence of race on response, enrollment, attrition, and adherence rates in lifestyle interventions ...

Hardy C, Wynn-Wallace T, Williams M, Marron J, Partridge E. (2012). Community Health Advisors as Research Partners: Utilizing Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Cancer Prevention and ...