The death of movie actress Marilyn Monroe on August 5, 1962 is still controversial despite being ruled a "probable suicide" by Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi. While the cause of death was due to acute barbiturate poisoning and Monroe had made previous suicide attempts using prescription drugs in...

Following what is quickly becoming a nation-wide trend in the U.S., the Indian Creek Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Virginia, recently opened a veterans-only dorm to house prisoners who are former soldiers. In dedicating the new wing, state correctional officials announced that they hoped that the veterans-only facility will...

Since 2006 when Prime Minister Stephen Harper first took office, his governing party has passed numerous bills designed to reinforce his "tough on crime" approach. Stressing that crime in Canada was on the rise and strong countermeasures were needed to keep offenders in prison longer, the bills passed into law...

How safe are your children if a fire breaks out?

While statistics from the United States Fire Administration show that fire is the third leading cause of unintentional injury in children under the age of 14, at least 40 per cent of all fire-related injuries involve children under...

A trial still unfolding in Bordeaux, France is already attracting lurid headlines as a man is facing prosecution over his nine-year domination of an aristocratic French family. Thierry Tilly of Oxford, England has been described by prosecutors as the "Leonardo da Vinci of mental manipulation."

The 48-year...

Although collecting health statistics across the world can seem almost impossible because of political unrest, economic problems, wars, and simple bureacracy, the World Health Organization has been collecting mortality statistics since the 1950s for most countries. In spite of that, there are still gaps where some health statistics are largely...

On January 8, 1989, a Boeing 737 operated by British Midland Airways crashed into the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth in Leicestshire. The aircraft had been making a routine flight from London's Heathrow Airfast to Belfast in Northern Ireland when the air crew heard a loud...

The suicide of former linebacker Junior Seau on May 2, 2012 came as a shock to his countless fans around the world. A well-loved icon in the San Diego sports community, the 43-year-old Seau had retired from professional football in 2010 following a long career as a linebacker...

For country and western star Glen Campbell, the decision to go public with his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease wasn't easy. In the press release that he and his wife Kim issued in June 2011, the 76-year-old singer admitted to experiencing short-term memory problems for years before being diagnosed....

For many soldiers deployed abroad in distant countries, the sense of isolation and danger can be overwhelming. It is hardly surprising that military suicides have risen astronomically since the beginning of the respective missions to Iraq and Afghanistan with a recent study showing an 80 per cent increase...

A recent conference on autism held in Philadephia earlier this year was more controversial than usual. Along with the presentation of papers relating to the causes and treatment of autism, a new film by French documentary filmmaker Sophie Robert showed the powerful hold that psychoanalytic theories about the...

When police broke into Kevin McGee's Edinburgh apartment, they found that the 32-year old man had hanged himself. The police had been notified by several of McGee's friends after they noticed that the television producer had updated his Facebook status to read: "Kevin McGee thinks that...

One of the most controversial issues raised during the recent provincial election campaign here in Ontario dealt with the promise by Progressive Conservative Leader, Tim Hudak, to make the provincial sex offender registry accessible to the public. While publicly accessible sex offender registries have been available in the United States...

On my recent visit to New Orleans, I looked forward to seeing how well the city has recovered from the devastating impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the city.

Based on what the various tour guides had to tell me, much of the damage seems to be nothing more...

A 31-year-old Indonesian man facing execution for committing 11 murders is now seeking a stay of execution on the grounds that he is a psychopath and mentally unfit for execution. Verry Idham Henyansyah (who often goes by nickname of "Ryan") was arrested in 2008 for a series of...

In September 2004, a group of armed militants took more than 1,100 people (including 777 children) hostage at a school in Beslan located in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. After a tense standoff with Russian troops that lasted three days, security forces stormed the school....

While the use of physical restraints in dealing with mentally patients remains controversial worldwide, treatment professionals in most countries are encouraged to consider their use only as a last resort for patients who might harm themselves otherwise.

Given the lack of viable treatment options in many developing countries, family...