Yoga does the body good, and according to a new study, it may ease the mind as well. “Yoga has also become such a cultural phenomenon that it has become difficult for physicians and consumers to differentiate legitimate claims from hype,” researchers from Duke University Medical Center write in their study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In order to explore the widely held belief that practicing yoga can relieve mental stress, the team reviewed more than 10

Washington Wizards small forward Kelly Oubre Jr. added his perspective to what other NBA players like DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love have opened up about in recent days—talking about his mental health in an interview on NBC Sports’s “Wizards Tipoff” podcast (it starts around the 13:00 mark). The 22-year-old Oubre, currently in his third NBA season, was uprooted from his childhood home of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina when he was nine years old, and he described in the interv

Every day, Indiana kindergarten teacher Tina DuBrock hugs her students. But as the daily news focused more and more on tragedies, DuBrock saw that she needed to do more than hand out hugs to her overwhelmed class. Brock created a mental-wellness reading list, and now teachers across the country are using it in their classrooms. "I am here to do my part to start a movement to prioritize mental-health education in schools," she wrote on Facebook. "It needs to be a part of our d