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Common methods for identifying gifted students often miss students from lower-income families who should qualify for gifted programs.
ADHD diagnoses are on the rise, a trend that might in part be driven by overdiagnosis. A new study finds that white children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD.
The median amount of cash bail is $10,000 – an immense sum for people living in poverty. Bail funds, unlike bail bondsmen, don’t charge high fees.
Physician burnout is a severe problem in the medical field, made much worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. But an online coaching program that could be scaled up had dramatic results for participants.
Higher Social Security benefits can significantly reduce the odds of an older person’s being food insecure.
Urban economics experts are creating simulated cities to forecast the effect that permanent telecommuting could have on city centers and housing.
The latest findings add to the understanding of how social disadvantage such as poverty and low-quality, unsafe housing can affect early child development.
In families that are facing economic insecurity, fathers are more likely to experience depressive symptoms that can lead to conflict.
An increasing number of college students say they were victims or perpetrators of sexual assault – and that victims were drunk when the assault took place. Are campus drinking environments to blame?
It has long puzzled researchers why Latinos seem to have lower rates of heart disease than their non-Latino counterparts, even though they have higher risk factors for heart disease.
Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim student organizations are rarities at most colleges and universities. An expert delves into why.
Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
Belonging to one or more groups with long-standing social and economic disadvantages increases the risk of cancer diagnoses and death.
In middle school classes, students from lower-income families tended to be concentrated in just a few classrooms, new research from North Carolina has found.
Prescription opiods, stimulants such as those used to treat ADHD and the ingredients found in sexual dysfunction drugs like Viagra are some of the drugs that are being marketed to US consumers.
Skin grafts for severe burn injuries may require multiple operations over the course of a lifetime to address crippling scars.
The reasons why people may seek out late-term abortions are complex and are often based on new medical information and delays caused by state policies.
New research found that consumers were less likely to buy a product associated with pleasure if marketers emphasized it was developed with science.
A team analyzed more than 21 million tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and found that negative sentiments on social media were tied to lower-than-expected vaccination rates in many nations.
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity; Social and Healty Equity Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Southern California
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Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Mel King Fellow, MIT CoLab; Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center, UMass Boston
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Postdoctoral Fellow at The Injury and Violence Prevention Program, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Professor of Economics and Education Policy, New York University
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
