Bob CollinsThere have been a couple of suicides at Hastings High School in the last week or so, a subject that requires an honest and somewhat clinical look at the cause.
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If you chase down your wife and shoot her to death in the daylight of a strip mall, you’ll get your name and picture in the paper, and nobody will suggest it will lead to more husbands killing their wives. But if you take your own life, alone, outside a school, you’re invisible.
It’s easy, trust me, to think that we’ll never make significant progress in getting people to understand the complexities of the brain, and accept the illnesses that it can bring.
Can TV anchors be obese?
A British Columbia teen who has raised thousands of dollars for children’s medical charities is finding it difficult to get the money to come to Minnesota for treatment of her own health problems.
Some Minnesotans might be chortling about a study out today showing Mississippi is the most obese state in the country, but our day will come, Minnesota. You had your chance to lower the obesity rate by 15 percent and — like every state in the union — you missed.
There should be another term for a migraine headache, because ‘migraine headache’ doesn’t come close to conveying the severity of one. Just ask anyone who’s called in sick with a migraine headache.
Health professionals have learned a lot about treating people with mental illness since the last mental health facility was built in the Twin Cities. Plenty of light, the feeling of being in control, open spaces are part of that. They’re patients; not prisoners.