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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Research finds remote workers are more aware of cybersecurity threats than in-office employees
By Joseph K. Nwankpa, Associate Professor of Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University; and Pratim Milton Datta, Professor of Information Systems & Cybersecurity, Kent State University Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity...
Trump is no Navalny: Narcissistic victimhood in a democracy is not same as persecution in Russia
By James D. Long, Professor of Political Science and Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington The death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, announced on February 16, 2024, laid bare to the world the costs of political persecutions. Although...
Black journalists have always known the “Lost Cause” myth was enshrined in Confederate monuments
By Donovan Schaefer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally, the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was...
Russia’s empire of lies: Why Putin is desperate to control the narrative of Ukrainian self-identity
By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University Controlling the narrative has long been crucial to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in his brutal war against Ukraine. In the worldview he...
