Sean Campbell, Investigative journalist, The Conversation; Charlene Harrington, Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on…
Scott A Imberman, Michigan State University and Katharine O. Strunk, Michigan State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The COVID-19 pandemic had a…
Frederike Ambagtsheer, Erasmus University Medical Center Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman…
Matt Hitchings, University of Florida and Derek Cummings, University of Florida Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4% of Americans over the age of…
Heidi Fantasia, UMass Lowell In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling struck down the constitutional right to abortion, society has been seeing the results of a post-Roe…
Lindsey Schier, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Scott Kanoski, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Do low-calorie sweeteners help with weight management? And are they safe…
Laura Gibson, UMass Chan Medical School “Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus, or CMV.…
Anirban Basu, University of Washington Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race…
Melody White, University of Connecticut and C. Michael White, University of Connecticut Some patients can have vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs like propofol, midazolam, diazepam and nitrous…
Shrey Grover, Boston University Figuring out how to enhance a person’s mental capabilities has been of considerable interest to psychology and neuroscience researchers like me for decades. From improving attention in high-stakes…
Prasad Shirvalkar, University of California, San Francisco The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Using a brain implant that can record neural signals over many…