The Lullaby Trust found that nine out of 10 parents cosleep with their babies at one time or another.

Despite long practised in many societies, cosleeping is a dirty word in the west.

Many parents are harshly reprimanded or guilt-tripped for doing it, or have lied to health professionals.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett was desperate to do the right thing but doubted herself.

Despite cosleeping and using a pod, I try to look back kindly on my choices.

But worryingly, the market is flooded with untested products that prey on parents.

Health professionals and charities are increasingly focusing on teaching parents how to bedshare.

Rick Perry recently championed ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive alkaloid, as a potential breakthrough for America ’s addiction and mental health crises.

The substance has been an essential part of African spiritual and healing ceremonies.

Despite its potential, this psychoactive compound remains largely unexplored.

For many, however, the moral tension lies in whether embracing ibogain represents God's providence or headfirst dive into forbidden waters.

John Mac Ghlionn: Rick Perry's advocacy forces society to confront its relationship with substances and healing.

Big Pharma thrives on keeping people sick, hooked, and dependent, he says.

But the solution isn’t just swapping out one extreme for another, he writes.

Real healing happens in communities, not in clinics or clinics disguised as “treatment centers.

People need purpose, structure, and support — not just another chemical reset.

Bob Greene : Growing up in Butler , Penn ., I looked for a way to get into the vaunted Guinness Book of World Records .

Greene: Abie Abraham held the record for the longest period of time sitting in a tree.

He survived the hellacious Bataan Death March , plus another three years in a brutal Japanese POW camp.

Greene says critics who trashed the Reagan movie trashed it because of their hateful politics may soon change.

Paul Kengor : Reagan film has 98 percent audience approval from Rotten Tomatoes , 18 percent critics rating.

Kenger: Hollywood 's leftist reviewers are such an ideologically biased lot that their rating of the Reagan movie is at the farthest extreme of everyday moviegoers.

Producer Mark Joseph says he plans to apply for a Guinness World Record for “greatest disparity between viewers’ and critics’ approval of a movie’s approval” He would cherish a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records .

More than 182 million Americans have received at least one shot of new COVID-19 vaccines.

Early in the pandemic many had suggested that was immunological threshold at which a population might achieve herd immunity.

Achieving herd immunity depends upon vaccines and natural infection creating durable long-term protection against reinfection.

COVID-19 vaccines and boosters have proved to be highly effective in preventing severe cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Recent research in The Lancet calculates that COvid-19 vaccinations between December 2020 and March 2023 saved approximately 1.6 million lives in Europe .

In 2023 , a team of researchers estimated that " at least 232,000 deaths" in the U.S. "could have been prevented among unvaccinated adults".

The Senate passed the “Halt Fentanyl Act’s 84 -16 vote on Friday .

The bill would make traffickers of fentanyl analogues subject to the same criminal penalties as fentanyl dealers.

It was backed by a host of law enforcement groups including the National Fraternal Order of Police and the National Association of Police Organizations .

Utah Court of Appeals Judge Gregory K. Orme , joined by Judges Ryan M. Harris and John D. Luthy .

Ragsdale is the founder and owner of the Eva Carlston Academy , a treatment center for adolescent girls.

ECA opened a location at the end of a cul-de-sac in a Salt Lake-area neighborhood in 2013 .

The court upheld much of the order, but reversed part of it on First Amendment grounds.

The prohibition on annoying and causing distress focuses solely on the impact any speech or expressive conduct by Fishler would have on Ragsdale .

Fishler is already enjoined from contacting Ragdale in any manner either directly or indirectly.

The prohibition against annoying or causing distress does not withstand strict scrutiny because it is not the least restrictive means of furthering "the state's compelling interest in protecting its citizens".

Todd Buchholz: Factors related to health, information, and power are reshaping the US economic terrain.

He says GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic , democratization of knowledge, and a dramatic decline in energy costs shift the economic landscape.

The information revolution has turned the economics of knowledge on its head, he says.

The price of crude oil has fallen roughly 40% from its 2022 peak.

Todd Buchholz: In 1979 , inflation raged at 11.3% , inflation raged, gas lines stretched for miles, few predicted the 1980s boom.

He says as the financial system crashed in late 2008 and 2009 , hardly anyone foresaw the technological revolution to come.

Bucholz : Health breakthroughs like GLP-1 drugs could save millions of lives and billions of dollars . The democratization of information empowers individuals and accelerates growth.

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no shortage of analysis personifying the virus as the villain.

Ruben Navarrette : But painting public health leaders as innocent bystanders and Covid as the boogeyman is deceitful historical revisionism.

He says it’s common for the media to bemoan Americans ’ diminishing trust in “science” and public health guidance — as if the virus itself is responsible.

But Covid didn’t order lockdowns and issue stay-at-home orders, he says.

Julian Zelizer : Health officials vilified anyone who didn't abide by their ever-changing guidelines.

Zelizer says Americans have not responded by expressing credulous faith in the public health “expert” class (or the corporate media) He says Americans ’ lack of confidence in public health officials — or even in scientists — doesn’t mean lack of trust in science.

If these tyrants want to regain the trust of the American people, they should start by refusing to embrace totalitarianism.

There were 29 air accidents a year between 2010 and 2020 , but only two were people killed in any of them.

Maintaining awareness lets travelers plan their responses should things go wrong.

Airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo’s”.

Don't wear leggings: These chemically produced fibers get hot enough to melt into your skin.

Incidents of smoke and fire emanating from passenger devices have quadrupled over the past 10 years .

Any seat is a safe seat if you’re buckled in.

A mother-of-two broke up with her daughter after her ex died when she was 13 and her son was 17 .

Her son thinks his daughter is mentally ill and needs professional help.

" Torn Mother " is tired of putting her daughter's life on hold, but she needs to grow up and act civil.

My daughter, “ Sonia ,” won a scholarship to an elite private school, but is struggling to carve out the peace she needs to study.

One of her cousins went in and hid her school laptop and didn't confess for three days .

Sonia was beside herself with worry since we would have to pay to replace it.

Sonia refuses to have anything to do with her cousins now.

Divorce is painful and the blame you are receiving is unfair, but your relationship and home situation had become untenable.

Don’t let your desire for him to have a relationship with your children put them in harm’s way.

If you’re concerned that your husband will mistreat your kids when they’ve been in his care, you should push for his visits with them to be supervised.