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When Depression Is Like a Cancer

Depression is not cancer. It’s a completely different disease. Yet when I look back on my husband’s depression and death by suicide three years ago, it sure looks a lot like cancer to me. As an adolescent medicine physician in Los Angeles, I have cared for many patients with depression and mental illness, and as… Read More »

Report says Coke’s academic research funding comes with a hitch. It can kill studies it doesn’t like

Pallets of Coke-Cola cans wait to the filled at a Coco-Cola bottling plant on February 10, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images Coca-Cola struck agreements to fund health studies at several public universities that gave the beverage maker the ability to review and kill studies it didn’t like, according to… Read More »

Like Fine Wine, Marriage Ages Well

French author Francois De La Rochefoucauld once wrote, “It is with an old love as it is with old age: a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.” That sentiment matches the belief many of us embraced growing up—that young love oozes with romance and joy, but over the… Read More »