The Friday Breeze Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend. A distinctly sad and sobering week: days of suicide stories follow the deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade. The events, and a devastating report about spiking suicide rates […]

College students seriously underestimate the effects of drinking a new class of beverages being marketed across the country, according to a new study. ‘Supersized alcopops’ — sweet, colorful and fizzy drinks that have been shown to appeal to youth — now contain almost as much alcohol as a six-pack of beer in a single can, […]

A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]