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Depressed Children

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 31, 2010 in the Editorials blog

Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?” asked the title of a long article in last week’s New York Times Magazine. “Good grief,” I thought. “I know where this is headed.” So I set the article aside. But it kept calling to me, so I read the first page. It was about a four-year old named Kiran who, among other things, spent a day at a children’s museum but couldn’t remember anything fun that he’d done. His life seemed to be awash in that kind of feeling. And so I had another reason not to read the article—I was not drawn to reading about children in that kind of emotional pain. But still it called. [Read more…]

Whooping Cough and Cellphones

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 24, 2010 in the Editorials blog

The Examined Life

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 17, 2010 in the Editorials blog

When an Assurance is a Lie

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 10, 2010 in the Editorials blog

Cancer in a New Key

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 5, 2010 in the Editorials blog

Translating Science into Health

By Jeffry Fawcett, July 27, 2010 in the Editorials blog

It’s the Environment, Stupid

By Jeffry Fawcett, July 13, 2010 in the Editorials blog

GMOcracy

By Jeffry Fawcett, July 6, 2010 in the Editorials blog

Endocrine Disruptors on the Loose

By Jeffry Fawcett, June 22, 2010 in the Editorials blog

Cancer is the Least of It

By Jeffry Fawcett, June 15, 2010 in the Editorials blog