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Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use. A few months later,…
Free short, easily accessible programs could allow many more people to access mental health treatments. Elena Kalinicheva/iStock via Getty Images Plus A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper,…
Anti-trans bills effectively restrict transgender people’s ability to participate fully in society. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with…
Geriatricians are trained to look beyond individual illnesses that older adults may face, and instead to look at the bigger picture of aging. MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and…
The United States is one of just two countries where drugmakers can advertise directly to patients. BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty Images It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for…
Overdose is the leading cause of death in postpartum women in Colorado and nationally. Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth died from…
The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel – by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon
New York nurses went on strike in January 2026, protesting unsafe staffing levels while demanding better patient safety, increased wages, improved working conditions and fairer contracts. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images Since nursing contract negotiations heated up in January…
Tourette’s tics can include obscenities and slurs. These taboo words are emotionally charged and socially significant, so they tend to be more strongly encoded in the brain’s wiring. Dominic Lipinski/Stringer via Getty Images John Davidson, whose life inspired the award-winning…
Thousands of HIV/AIDS patients in Florida could soon lose access to lifesaving medications. Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images More than 128,000 Floridians are living with HIV. The state has the second-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses after Georgia,…