'People die like that': Native Americans face serious barriers in ...
WEBRurality isn’t the only issue — Native Americans in Montana die, on average, 17 years younger than the state’s white rural residents. A deep-seated mistrust of the Indian Health Service means community members may avoid getting the care they need.
Do tiny homes really work as a solution to homelessness? Here’s …
WEBHernandez’s story is one of many that showcase the countless pitfalls lurking along the path from tiny home to permanent housing. While thousands of hours of effort and millions of dollars have helped establish tiny homes as a promising solution even in some of the hardest cases, a close look suggests they remain a limited option in the face of the region’s overwhelming homelessness crisis ...
Ten years later, what lessons have we learned from the Flint water ...
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The Health Divide: Should juveniles ever be sent to an adult prison ...
WEBApr 1, 2024 · According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of juveniles incarcerated in all U.S. adult prisons or jails has declined from a peak of 10,420 in 2008 to a low of 2,250 in 2021.
What You Should Know About Adultification Bias
WEBMar 2, 2023 · This bias presents itself in households, education, and in a society where Black children are expected to act like adults before reaching adulthood, by the adults they interact with; family members, teachers, and police officers. This adultification bias often overlaps with the hyper-sexualization and criminalization of Black youth.
How We Analyzed the Impact of State Bans on Gender-Affirming …
WEBMay 14, 2024 · To get a better understanding of how gender-affirming care for youths is being impacted by state bans, MedPage Today analyzed prescription data from Symphony Health, which captures 85% of retail pharmacy prescriptions and three-quarters of specialty and mail-order prescriptions in the U.S.. We chose to focus on puberty-blocking drugs as an imperfect proxy for access to gender-affirming care.
Dozens of injured patients die from preventable blood loss each …
WEBMar 26, 2024 · Inside a lecture hall in San Antonio filled with medical students, I listened as a group of seasoned trauma surgeons described a preventable problem that was killing many of their patients.. Every day, trauma victims succumbed to injuries they might have survived, had they not bled to death first.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- the largest public …
WEBMentions of the ACE Study -- the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experiences Study-- have recently appeared in the New York Times, This American Life, and Salon.com.In the last year, it's become a buzzword in social services, public health, education, juvenile justice, mental health, pediatrics, criminal justice and even business.
What are the impacts of state laws banning gender-affirming care …
WEBJul 30, 2024 · In 2023, state after state passed unprecedented bans on gender-affirming care for youth. A reporter seeks to find out through data what effects these laws are having on gender-diverse youth.
Why so many Americans bleed to death after a traumatic injury
WEBNov 28, 2023 · On June 12, 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others. Of those who died, researchers say 16 involved potentially survivable wounds. These studies echo the work of military researchers, who for years have examined combat deaths from bleeding and other preventable causes and taken steps to reduce them.
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