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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.
It is illegal for people under 21 to smoke e-cigarettes like Juuls, but adult use has come under scrutiny, too.
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E-cigarettes are facing calls for complete bans on their sale. A tobacco addiction researcher explores the balance between vaping’s harm to teens and potential use as a tool for quitting smoking.
A new polymer could help the medicine go down easier.
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While pills are more practical than injections or infusions, digestion in the stomach prevents many drugs from being taken orally. Better drug design could change this.
Many Americans reacted with outrage to the Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle the constitutional right to abortion.
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In contrast to their reaction to gay rights or the war in Ukraine, relatively few companies have openly criticized the Supreme Court ruling ending a constitutional right to abortion.
Members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack listen during the fourth hearing on June 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
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Congress has the power to make sure government serves the public interest. Conducting investigations is one way lawmakers do that.
An abortion provider in San Antonio had to turn patients away after the June 24, 2022, Supreme Court ruling.
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Even in states that ban abortion, legal precedents indicate that donating to, and receiving assistance from, abortion funds is an expression of free speech.
Increasingly, it’s women who are harvesting crops as heat waves worsen.
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As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
Cows eating hay and soy-based feed.
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Feeding insects instead of grain to animals is an inexpensive, sustainable way to increase the world food supply. An animal scientist explains what’s involved in developing insect feed for cattle.
Pauli Murray: priest, activist, lawyer and more.
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Offering free pregnancy tests, sonograms and counseling, the pregnancy help movement maintains more than 2,700 resource centers throughout the United States.
Although the legal landscape is changing, bias still slows career advancements for women and people of color.
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A new study reveals a reliable pathway to make U.S. courtrooms – and senior-level positions – more diverse.
Joe Kennedy poses in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the court on April 25, 2022.
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Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Social Security makes it more likely the elderly have enough food.
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Despite being the subject of criticism and negative news, business schools do a lot of good for society, a veteran business professor explains in a new book.
During ice ages, ice sheets like the one in Greenland have covered much of Earth’s surface.
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Scholars explain why many see abortion access as a religious freedom issue and what the views of different faiths are on ‘ensoulment,’ the point at which the soul is believed to enter the fetus.
Temporary security fencing surrounds the U.S. Supreme Court building, ahead of its decision on abortion.
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State supreme courts have a relatively low profile in the US. That’s going to change now that they will be under political pressure to decide whether abortion is protected in state constitutions.
A half-century of reproduction rights upended by the Supreme Court.
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By a 6 to 3 majority, the Supreme Court decided to overrule the landmark Roe decision and end almost 50 years of access to abortion being a constitution right.
The overturning of Roe will affect the lives of millions of women.
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The Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, issued a ruling that overturned decades of constitutional abortion rights for women in the US. Scholars explain the significance of the decision.
In kindergarten, it can be apparent to teachers and parents alike that some students are younger than others.
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Kindergartners who are relatively younger than their classroom peers are at risk for doing less well in school. A clinical psychologist explains how to reduce those problems.