Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that’s a hard match to make
Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan and Edwin Lindo, University of Washington
In today’s America, minority patients still have markedly worse health outcomes than white patients....
What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and sexting experiences at school
Megan K. Maas, Michigan State University
Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they...
Africa is within reach of being declared a polio free region
Charles Wiysonge
, Stellenbosch University
More than 20 years after North and South America eliminated the threat of polio, sub-Saharan Africa is finally on the brink...
What will student protests look like when classes are online?
Johnathan Flowers, Worcester State University; April Logan, Salisbury University, and Samuel Abrams, Sarah Lawrence College
Editor’s note: Campus protests have become a mainstay in American...
Boomers have a drug problem, but not the kind you might think
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia
Baby boomers – that’s anyone born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964 – are 20% of the population, more...
Ringworm fungal infections are common in the US and are becoming increasingly resistant to...
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University
The World Health Organization considers antimicrobial resistance to be one of the most...
Access to sports betting in the US has exploded since 2018 – and we’re...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University and Shane Kraus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For most of U.S....
The bizarre social history of beds
Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Groucho Marx once joked, “Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.” You might...
