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The Adderall shortage exposed a troubling gap in how doctors care for the disorder.

A plan to increase Los Angeles County’s psychiatric mobile crisis teams has faltered, often leaving people no choice but to turn to police during a mental health emergency.

After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced.

Mathematician Abba Gumel uses calculations and models to prepare for future disease outbreaks

Warmer temperatures helped at least 500 more long balls sail over MLB fences from 2010 to 2019, according to a study from Dartmouth College researchers.

Boundaries are important. But our relationships require a touch more compassion than some online blueprints offer.

It's shockingly easy for CPS to destroy poor, Black families.

Brain scans show that people who have had Botox injections have altered brain activity when they look at happy and angry faces, possibly because the paralysis of muscles means they can’t mimic the expressions they see

Much of dreaming remains a mystery, but scientists have some ideas as to why some people are better than others at remembering their dreams.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the LAPD’s abortion squad hunted down women getting the procedure and the people performing them.

Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.

I was braced to sit through something condescending & inaccurate at best. Instead, the show gave people with OCD the episode we've always deserved.

My dilemma was more common than you’d think.

The features that make your voice unique. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Most of us use our voices every day to communicate one way or another, but the way we produce sound is so much more than the words we say. Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar instruments, but with endless variations. As humans, we each essentially produce sound in the same physiological way, but it’s not as simple as plucking a guitar string. And when we talk we’re dropping clues about who we are, what we do, and where we’re from. A dialect can hint where a person is from. An expressive range might suggest a person is a singer or actor. A slow and quiet tone could mean a person is feeling sad or tired. Check out the video above to learn more about the ins and outs of how we produce sounds and why no one else sounds like you. For more on the ins and outs of how we produce sound: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.4964509?TRACK=RSS For more on how puberty changes a person’s voice, including what we do and don’t know about why our voice boxes are so sensitive to sex hormones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594207/ You can find Justin Stoney’s website here: https://newyorkvocalcoaching.com/ Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com Support Vox's reporting with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://vox.com/contribute-now Shop the Vox merch store: http://vox.com/store Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://facebook.com/vox Follow Vox on Twitter: http://twitter.com/voxdotcom Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom

In the aftermath of tragic events like school shootings, you may feel anxious, grief-stricken, angry, hopeless, powerless, or even desensitized and numb. Experts say there’s more than one way to process trauma, all of which are normal and to be expected.

A teenage girl died by suicide after she started menstruating and not knowing what it was, in 1935. A bill in Florida wants to take us back to those times.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

Here’s what it’s really like to experience dissociation in a persistent, life-affecting way.

Trans patients share their stories of subtle discrimination, outright hostility and ill-informed medical professionals.

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

Judges have already ruled that the prosecutors broke the law.

How do we ensure no person dies as a result of bringing life into this world?

Scientists are digging into why a few people escape the rarest form of Alzheimer's, which is inherited and strikes young.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys say relatives of crash victims are legally entitled to damages beyond their own grief and loss.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The recent tragedy surrounding Lindsay Clancy and her children underscores popular misconceptions about a grave and mysterious disorder.

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender healthcare bans.

Of all the king’s intellectual interests, however, his love of language was perhaps the most significant—and he may have once sent two infants to live on an island with a deaf-mute woman just to see what would happen.

To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of things from their lessons.