In your lifetime, you’ve probably known someone who has an eating disorder or you have struggled with one yourself. As many as 10 million people in the United States have an eating disorder. Let’s look first at the most common types of eating disorders.

At a time when autism diagnoses are at an all-time high, most pediatricians don’t offer the tests necessary to screen Spanish-speaking children.

A study by Oregon Health and Science University researchers in the journal Pediatrics found only about 10 percent of California pediatricians offer both developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) screenings in Spanish. The tests are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, with four developmental screenings between ages nine and 30 months and two autism screenings at 18 and 24 months.

Review found strong links between discrimination and anxiety, low self-esteem in minority teens

SUNDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Being a victim of racism may trigger poor mental health, depression and anxiety in children and teens, according to a new review.

How to show you care

What do you say to someone who’s depressed? All too often, it’s the wrong thing. 

“People still have such a cloudy idea of what mental illness is,” says Kathleen Brannon, of Herndon, Va. 

“Sometimes people will say, ‘Oh, you’re depressed? Yeah, I’ve been depressed,’ and you realize just the way they say it that, nooo, it’s not quite the same thing. It’s not just that I’m feeling sad or blue.”

Below is a list of helpful things to tell someone battling depression, followed by what not to say, courtesy of the Depression Alliance.

Hispanic Heritage Month provides the perfect opportunity to explore how bilingual education positively or negatively affect our children.