Grief and Bereavement Articles and Grief Research 

The dramatic decline in childhood mortality during the 20th century has added a full year to women's lives, according to a new study. "The picture I was building in my mind was to think about what the population of mothers in the U.S. looked like in 1900," said Matthew Zipple, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University and author of "Reducing Childhood Mortality Extends Mothers' Lives," which published May 9 in Scientific Reports.

It's been three months since the start of a devastating series of wildfires that raged through Los Angeles from Jan. 7 to Jan. 31. As victims pick up the pieces of their lives, a study published in Environmental Research: Health from the UC Davis School of Medicine offers insights into what victims may need in the short and long term.

For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists have only recently been able to test if and how this actually works. In the latest of these efforts, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine measured the effects of mindfulness on pain perception and brain activity.