Florida State University Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner has spent most of his career trying to uncover why nearly a million people around the world kill themselves

Six weeks after surgeons fashioned new thumbs for him, Francisco del Alamo-Benavente is set to go home. He will return to his native Peru, with more therapy in store for him.

During the procedure, an index finger was converted into a thumb, a method commonly used for children born with no thumbs. They then used the second toe on his right foot as a thumb in his left hand

A new study shows the risk of death from an inflicted injury increases nearly 50-fold for young children living with adults unrelated to them compared to those living with two biological parents, with most of the perpetrators being male.

Researchers used information from Missouri's Child Fatality Review Program - a system mandated by the state to ensure that all child deaths are properly reviewed - to identify all children 4-years-old and younger who died of an injury inflicted by a parent or other adult care giver over an 8-year period

The promise of a new interactive Web site launching promises to make you happy. It's based on more than 40-years of clinical research from the world's foremost authority on positive psychology, Dr. Martin Seligman.

The new site, www.reflectivehappiness.com provides users with a series of scientifically tested exercises that have been clinically proven to decrease depression while improving emotional well being, allowing for more happiness in life

Doctors fear overcrowding and septic water contamination could lead to a rash of illness among survivors of a landslide that swept away their Maya Indian village this month.

Thousands of people from Panabaj are crammed into churches and houses in the nearby village of Santiago and other towns, while the government races to build temporary housing