Jim Spencer

The best cure for the blues that accompany being fired is to find another job fast. ''Job loss is very damaging to mental health, but research has shown that the...

Incidents of wife-beating and other forms of battery against women by their sexual partners wax and wane according to the season, a group of researchers at Emory University School of...

Services for infertile women continue to multiply. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that 15 percent of white, sexually active women in their childbearing years have used infertility services...

Americans harbor a deathly fear of being alone, says psychiatrist Martin G. Groder. To be without companionship is a sign of rejection. ''Our extroverted culture allows us to be alone...

Falling asleep at the wheel ranks second to alcohol as a cause of automobile accidents, according to Merrill Milter of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation`s Sleep Disorder Center. The...

There`s a new twist to the expression ''blind rage.'' Apparently, extreme stress literally can rob you of your vision, at least temporarily. Psychiatrists Gary Gelber and Howard Schatz of the...

The amount of support a husband gives his wife during her pregnancy determines in large measure how involved and sensitive she will be with her child after birth, says Robert...

White people who have black friends are not necessarily open-minded about race relations, a University of Michigan sociologist says. Culling new interpretations from data she collected in a 1975 survey...

None of the recently graduated psychiatrists who took part in a new survey planned to work for health maintenance organizations (HMOs). This shows a poor understanding of modern medicine, say...

Parents remember most fondly their babies` first steps, according to a recent national poll by Louis Harris and Associates. Among parental highlights of their kids` early years, babies` first words...