Inadequate support and inhospitable work environments are driving many promising scientists from their career paths. Some promising initiatives to improve working conditions are underway, and large-scale change is necessary.
Reproductive & Sexual Health
Access to Contraception Supports Women’s College Education: Evidence from Colorado
Researchers find that the Colorado Family Planning Initiative was associated with higher rates of college completion. But what will happen in today’s landscape?
The nationwide financial squeeze on federal employees, contractors, and the businesses that depend on them may be the most visible harm from the ongoing partial government shutdown, but we should also be aware of damage to science. The shutdown has furloughed federal scientists, stalled data collection, weakened scientific meetings, left current and potential collaborators hanging, […]
Infectious Diseases & Vaccines
Study: Communication training, resources can help clinicians boost HPV vaccine uptake
A new study finds that with the right patient engagement tools, clinicians can increase HPV immunization rates among teens.
Opponents of gun control like to argue that there’s no point in passing stricter gun laws because criminals will get guns anyway. Just look at Chicago, they say. But a new study finds it’s not that strong state laws don’t work, it’s that weak laws in neighboring states offer criminals a convenient loophole.
Affordable Care Act
Study: ACA marketplace led to health care improvements, especially for low-income adults
Another day, another study on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act and the gains we risk losing if the Trump administration succeeds at undermining the law.
Diversity in the science fields does more than ensure a variety of perspectives and passions in the pursuit of scientific discovery. It also sends a message to young people that science is for everyone.
This year’s County Health Rankings elevate the intrinsic connections between health and opportunity, underscoring the considerable inequities that put certain communities at greater risk of poor health and disease.
Affordable Care Act
Trump’s new short-term health plan could destabilize the ACA market (which is probably the point)
For now, it seems congressional leadership has given up on a full-throated repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Their new, less-visible repeal strategy is just ignoring the health reform law altogether.
New data finds one American is dying from alcohol, drugs and suicide every four minutes — that’s the highest number recorded so far.