By Daniela Mansbach & Alisa Von Hagel Anti-abortion organizations aim to make abortion illegal for all women – or, barring that, to make abortion as difficult...
Gun violence increased by more than 30% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The researchers said...
Ideally, local governments as the smallest jurisdictions in the American political system allow citizens to engage in a direct and substantive way. Local elections are one...
On October 11th, the National Football League (NFL) community was shocked when news surfaced that Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden announced his resignation just...
Chanel, now a middle-class mother of one, is just one of many women who have used abortion to end a pregnancy. “In college,” she explained, “I...
In the 1980s and 1990s, concerns about teen pregnancy voiced by policymakers and pundits helped garner support for welfare reform – as the public reached a...
Each year, an estimated 800,000 people are trafficked globally, though the true number may be higher. In a quest to arm officials and stakeholders around the...
Egg and sperm donations in the United States have long proceeded under the cloak of secrecy. Twenty-five years ago, when I first started interviewing patients who...
Domestic violence remains a serious and widespread problem in the U.S., particularly for women from racial or ethnic minorities, who experience higher rates of abuse than...
By Henna Budhwani and Kristine Ria Hearld Contraception is complicated. Reproductive health scholars can comfortably weigh the protective benefits of condom use compared to the convenience...
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — States with Democratic leaders tended to have responded more strongly to COVID-19 and have seen a lower rate of the spread of the...
Dina took to Google after feeling some discomfort in her pubic area. Although she was in graduate school several hundred miles away, she waited to see...
As COVID-19 took its toll on the U.S. in 2020, the numbers began to show that not everyone was equally affected by the virus. Data from the...
The intensifying avalanche of restrictive U.S. abortion laws since 2012 has made it more difficult for many people to terminate their pregnancies. These restrictions have also...
Written by Christeen Badie & Karina Velasco There are approximately 10.5 million undocumented individuals in the United States according to Pew Research. Immigrants often leave their...
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has published a new study to assess consumer behavior towards companies that...
2020 was filled with unprecedented events in all facets of life, and, as many have noted across the globe, the year became a landmark for the...
On Monday, September 13th, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) held a webinar entitled Deleting the Broadband Affordability Divide: A Virtual Chat with FCC Acting Chair Rosenworcel. The...
“I understand these people. I know they are tired of living here. They have had difficulties. They have no one to help them.” – Chen Si...
It is common for social workers and case managers to have some amount of firsthand experience with the problems their clients face, but what happens when...
A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....