Every year since 1975 researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, in conjunction with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), have conducted the Monitoring the Future survey. The survey asks eighth...

Deaths caused by smoking have reached epidemic proportions. In the United States alone, 430,000 people die annually from smoking-related illnesses such as cancers and lung disease. Stephen Jay, chair of the Department of Public Health at In...

Today seemed to be a normal day for Steve. He went to school and like usual sat in the back of class quietly doing his work. At lunch he sat with his friends and goofed around like usual. After school he went home and let himself in. Usuall...

“One of the greatest fears of a dying patient is not death, but the pain associated with the final days of life.” —R. Henry Capps Jr., medical student, East Carolina University School of Medicine William Bergman, a ret...

Political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world—the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S.—or the second world—the communist states led by the Soviet Un...

In light of our discussion that we had on Friday my stand on women in the military did not change. I still believe that they should be integrated in the military but they should never be drafted. Some new points were brought up in the discu...

One of the earliest treatments for mental illness was developed in Neolithic times, more than five thousand years ago. In a process known as trepanning, Stone Age surgeons would use a small tool to bore a hole in the skull of their patients...