Loneliness is an insidious disease. It is an anti-discriminatory disorder that afflicts people of all ages, races, and creeds. It probably contributes to more deaths each year than all other diseases ...

Researchers at University of Chicago have found that extreme loneliness increases a person’s chances of premature death by 14%. The impact of loneliness on premature death is nearly as strong as the ...

Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow, ...

America’s purported loneliness epidemic, with its fuzzy definitions and clashing claims, is the type of gnarly challenge that’s guaranteed to both attract and destroy data journalists. So we ...

We hear a lot about the role of technology in the erosion of human connection and the rise of social isolation. The irony of social media is that it makes our “virtual selves” available for engagement ...