Preventing Suicide Among College Students Privacy rules that keep colleges from notifying parents of a student’s distress may be costing lives. Some solutions include granting permission in advance or having a friend alert the family. Read More…

Roboadvisers (With Human Helpers) These firms use a combination of technology and human professionals to provide financial advice at prices lower than traditional advisers typically charge. Read More…

How to Avoid Burnout in Youth Sports If children are to be successful at a sport, the drive to specialize and succeed must be of their own choosing. Read More…

Weighing the Pros and Cons of Statins Statins are often given to healthy people to prevent a potentially devastating problem, so some patients object to taking them. Read More…

How to Increase Your Chances of Having a Long, Healthy Life The big factors in life expectancy: whether people smoke, what and how much they eat, and whether they abuse alcohol or drugs. Read More…

To Counter Loneliness, Find Ways to Connect Much of modern life, though seeming to promote connectivity, has had the opposite effect of fostering social isolation and loneliness, experts say. Read More…

Is the Paleo Diet Right for You? In the Paleo era, people ran around all day and rarely lived past 40, so their risk of developing the so-called diseases of civilization is unknown. Read More…

An Underappreciated Key to College Success: Sleep Many college-bound students start out with dreadful sleep habits that are likely to get worse once the rigorous demands of courses and competing social and athletic activities kick in. Read More…

How Children Learn to Recognize Faces Halloween masks and makeup can be disorienting to children who are still developing the skill. Read More…

Jill Soloway Goes Completely Transparent in a New Memoir “She Wants It” details the creation of an award-winning television show amid the writer’s own process of self-discovery. Read More…