Click Here to Read:  Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America by George Washington on September 19, 2012.

Click here to read “Understanding How Children Develop Empathy” by Perri Klass, M.D. from The New York Times on December 10, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  A blood test for autism? By Laura Blue from  TIME.com on the CNN website on December 7, 2012,

Click here to read “Pollution and Well-Being: A Startling Connection” by Christy Matta from Psych Central on December 5, 2012.

Click here to read “Psychiatric association approves changes to diagnostic manual” by Miriam Falco, CNN Medical Managing Editor, from CNN on December 3, 2012.

Starting next year, the process of diagnosing autism may see drastic changes following the revision of the official guide to classifying psychiatric illnesses.

Click Here to Read; Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? By Nathaniel Rich In The New York Times on November 28, 2012.

Click here to read “When it’s more than ‘winter blues'” by Dr. Charles Raison from CNN.com on November 28, 2012.

Dr. Charles Raison, CNNHealth’s mental health expert, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Click here to read “Why you keep playing the lottery” by Jacque Wilson from CNN.com on November 28, 2012.

Maybe your kid is sick and there are hospital bills to pay. Maybe you’ve lost your job and you’re worried about making rent. Maybe you still have a job, but it sucks, and you’d really like to spend the next 50 years lying on a beach with a mai tai in hand. Whatever your predicament, the current estimated Powerball jackpot of $550 million could fix it. Which makes us wonder — when it comes to playing the lottery, are we all just damsels in distress?

Click here to read “Aiding the Doctor Who Feels Cancer’s Toll” by Jane E. Brody from The New York Times on November 26, 2012.

The woman was terminally ill with advanced cancer, and the oncologist who had been treating her for three years thought the next step might be to deliver chemotherapy directly to her brain. It was a risky treatment that he knew would not, could not, help her. When Dr. Diane E. Meier asked what he thought the futile therapy would accomplish, the oncologist replied, “I don’t want Judy to think I’m abandoning her.”