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2022-05-12 Travel Nurses See Swift Change of Fortunes as Covid Money Runs Dry Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News Tiffanie Jones was a few tanks of gas into her drive from Tampa, Florida, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she found out her travel nurse contract had been canceled. Jones, who has been a nurse for […]
2022-05-12 ADHD in adults is challenging but highly treatable – a clinical psychologist explains ADHD wasn’t recognized as a condition that can have profound effects on adults until the 1990s. SIphotography/iStock via Getty Images Plus Laura E. Knouse, University of Richmond When I was a child in the 1980s, the people I knew with attention-deficit/hyperactivity […]
Why Researchers Want Broader Access to Social Media Data By Teresa Carr Within days of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, several social media companies took steps to reduce the circulation of Russian state-backed media and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Meta (formerly Facebook), for example, said it took down about 40 accounts, part of a larger network that […]
2022-03-30 What’s the 411 on the new 988 hotline? 5 questions answered about a national mental health service The 988 Lifeline will connect callers with specialists trained to assist with mental health crises, including psychotic symptoms and substance abuse. Derek Lee, The Ohio State University Beginning July 16, 2022, people struggling with mental health crises can […]
2022-03-27 Universities Are Failing the Next Generation of Scientists By Paul M. Sutter The long-term job outlook for a freshly minted science Ph.D. can be pretty grim. After devoting more than a half decade to becoming an independent researcher in the field of their passion, after sacrificing opportunities for better pay and work-life balance, and […]
2022-03-26 How the Hoopa Valley Tribe Monitors a Rare Carnivore By Elizabeth Miller On a sunny November morning, Anthony Colegrove parked his work truck on the side of a road in northern California’s Klamath Mountains and began creating a mobile laboratory. He pulled down the truck’s tailgate, popped open a tackle box filled with syringes […]
2022-03-25 As a Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next? Brett Kelman NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four years ago, inside the most prestigious hospital in Tennessee, nurse RaDonda Vaught withdrew a vial from an electronic medication cabinet, administered the drug to a patient, and somehow overlooked signs […]
2022-02-09 How the Tiny-Home Movement Is Providing More Than Just a Roof to Homeless People Giles Bruce MADISON, Wis. — Tucked inside a residential neighborhood, and surrounded by a wooden fence and greenery, are nine little houses. With multicolored siding and roofs, they look like people-sized birdhouses. And they fit right in. So does […]
2022-02-05 Colleges Struggle to Recruit Therapists for Students in Crisis Mark Kreidler Early in his first quarter at the University of California-Davis, Ryan Manriquez realized he needed help. A combination of pressures — avoiding covid-19, enduring a breakup, dealing with a disability, trying to keep up with a tough slate of classes […]
2022-02-09 A Push to Remove LGBTQ Books in One County Could Signal Rising Partisanship on School Boards by Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Nearly seven years ago, Melanie Graft’s 4-year-old […]