Destigmatizing suicide: Why medical students are still not adequately trained to treat suicidal patients
Rodolfo Bonnin, Assistant Dean for Institutional Knowledge Management and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University Leonard M. Gralnik, Chief of Education and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral...
How flawed science has changed with the times to justify opposition of transgender health care
By G. Samantha Rosenthal, Associate Professor of History, Roanoke College In the past century, there have been three waves of opposition to transgender health care. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, they cracked down on transgender medical research and clinical...
Community health centers that serve 1 in 11 Americans as a critical safety net struggle to stay open
Elisa Reyes has come to Plaza del Sol Family Health Center for doctor’s appointments for more than a decade. She moved away a while ago but keeps returning, even if it means a two-hour roundtrip bus ride. That is because her two children see the same doctor she...
A community obligation: Why people who live near nonprofit hospitals often see little benefit
By Jonathan Wynn, Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst; Daniel Skinner, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Ohio University Have you ever asked if living near a hospital make you more likely to get the health care you need? Even though the...
Research shows access to telehealth care makes critical difference in getting a timely abortion
By Leah Koenig, PhD Candidate in Public Health, University of California, San Francisco; Ushma Upadhyay, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, University of California, San Francisco Access to telehealth abortion care can determine whether a...
Prison to plate: Incarcerated workers are part of a hidden workforce behind many popular food brands
A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source in a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State...
Study shows scientists underestimated number of deaths linked to pollution from coal power plants
By Lucas Henneman, Assistant Professor of Engineering, George Mason University Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it is more than twice as likely to contribute to premature deaths as...
Medicaid programs in many states are expanding to provide dental care for their poorest residents
For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He could not sleep, barely ate, and relied on painkillers to get by. The 67-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, could not afford to see a dentist on the $1,300-a-month his family gets in...
Why hospitals are more likely to give White patients opioid medication for pain than Black patients
By Trevor Thompson, Associate Professor of Clinical Research, University of Greenwich; and Sofia Stathi, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Greenwich White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be...
Safe Mobility: New immigration policy that avoids a dangerous journey is working but alternatives needed
Five years ago, Alexis Llanos and his family fled Venezuela for Colombia, escaping death threats and political persecution. The family then planned to make the dangerous and deadly journey north, through the Darien jungle leading through Panama, with hopes of...
Economic boost: Americans forget that immigrants do the work they have little interest in doing
By Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University Although Congress is failing to pass laws to restrict the number of migrants arriving in the U.S., a majority of Americans, about 6 in 10, believe there is an immigration crisis along the Mexico-U.S. border....
Federal court could award billions to Mexico over lawsuit claiming U.S. gun-makers arm its gangs
By Timothy D. Lytton, Regents’ Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico. The lawsuit...