As the U.S. reels from another school shooting, much of the public discussion has centered on the lives lost: 19 children and two adults. Indeed, the massacre at Robb Elementary…
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From Lyme disease to lesser-known illnesses like Heartland virus disease, ehrlichiosis and Colorado tick fever, tick-borne disease cases are increasing rapidly in the United States. In 2017, 59,349 cases were…
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With the US Supreme Court poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, campaigners for abortion rights from Africa to Latin America are warning of the potentially devastating…
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Click here for more.As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, we are constantly reminded of how much more awareness and action is needed to make progress, particularly for our youth. As…
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The Marshall Project and NPR investigated how the newest federal prison — the penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois — has quickly become one of the deadliest. The story is the latest in…
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The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by disrupted supply chains, a hike in commodity prices and inflation, increased public and private debt, and reduced economic output. Despite secular trends toward its…
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Click here for more.A new analysis details the extent of rural mental-health care disparities. “Seventy-five percent of rural counties across the country have no mental-health providers, or fewer than 50 per 100,000 people,”…
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The deadly shooting of at least 19 children and two adults in Texas on May 24, 2022, is the latest in an ever-growing list of national tragedies, leaving families and…
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Many of us may remember Spring 2020 as a continuous loop of sifting through the firehose of new information about the pandemic on our Twitter feeds, Facebook feeds, or Whatsapp…
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One per 1,500. That’s the nurse-to-student ratio for K-12 schools in Pennsylvania — one of a handful of states to set staffing requirements in the law. Karla Coffman, a nurse in the York…
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As schools head into the final quarter, exhausted teachers and administrators are completing their third consecutive year disrupted by the pandemic. Assessments and other year-end data will provide a more…
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On August 14, 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti’s Southern Peninsula, destroying hundreds of buildings, and killing thousands of people. Coming just over a decade after the devastating 2010…