New study calculates alarming lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the US
One out of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one out of every ...
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Employers reject transgender people
Credit: Teiksma Buseva Employers in Sweden more often reject job applications from transgender people - especially in male-dominated occupations. Moreover, ...
The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the tuatara, revealing its unique evolutionary historyCredit: Bernard Spragg (Flickr, CC0) 5 August 2020, ...
Portland State University releases nationwide guidance on bike share equity programs
A set of ten new technical briefs synthesizes best practices and case studies from over 70 U.S. bike share systems ...
Racial and LGBT bias persists in ridesharing drivers despite mitigation efforts
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Despite efforts by ridesharing companies to eliminate or reduce discrimination, research from the Indiana ...
Concordian co-leads effort to see future of AI from an Indigenous perspective
A collaborative position paper challenges long-held assumptions about Western approaches to technologyCredit: Concordia University In the late winter and spring ...
The monster is us: Jordan Peele’s Get Out exposes society’s horrors
New essay collection explores the ways Jordan's Peele's 2017 film "Get Out" "revolutionizes the gothic and horror tradition at the ...
Racial disparities in COVID-19 are clear; better data, more targeted action needed
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Marked racial disparities exist in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, investigators say, and ...
Black individuals at higher risk for contracting COVID-19, according to new research
Credit: ATS July 08, 2020 - Results of an analysis published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society found ...
Mobile clinics can help address health care needs of Latino farmworkers
UC Riverside study exposes disparities in health care access in rural Southern CaliforniaCredit: Center for Healthy Communities, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, ...
Researchers study effects of COVID-19 on caregivers of people with ADRD
Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the U.S. are caregivers for the more than 6 million people ...
Research news tip sheet: Story ideas from Johns Hopkins Medicine
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Eating a Late Meal May Be Harmful To Your Metabolic Health, Particularly For Early Birds Media ...
Uganda’s Ik are not unbelievably selfish and mean
Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayalCredit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group ...
Beyond Singapore’s bicentennial
We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was ...
Opposition to sexual- and gender-minority rights linked to support for Christian dominance
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support legislation to ...
American Roentgen Ray Society statement on health care and racial inequities
ARRS reaffirms its century-long commitment to the impartial progression of medical imaging and its allied sciences through a true community ...
University of Toronto team awarded CIHR grant to study impact of cannabis use on Indigenous oral health
Clinical research and Indigenous knowledge models will help team gather first evidence of effects of cannabis on Indigenous peoples of ...
Chapman University national study highlights wide-ranging effects of COVID-19 pandemic
The survey examined the experiences of 4,149 adults living in the United States and how the crisis is impacting their ...
Discrimination may erase ‘birthweight advantage’ of black US immigrants in one generation
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University Black women have the highest prevalence of low birthweight babies compared to other racial and ...
New evidence on bed bug burden in urban neighborhoods
UMass Amherst researcher and team see more risk of bed bugs in poorer, crowded urban areasCredit: Charles Kremenak AMHERST, Mass. ...