According to a large-scale study of American high school students, legalizing medicinal marijuana has actually led to a drop in…
The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas
Stigma is a well-documented barrier to health seeking behavior, engagement in care and adherence to treatment across a range of…
Out of the silos: identifying cross-cutting features of health-related stigma to advance measurement and intervention
Many health conditions perceived to be contagious, dangerous or incurable, or resulting in clearly visible signs, share a common attribute…
Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health
‘Intersectional stigma’ is a concept that has emerged to characterize the convergence of multiple stigmatized identities within a person or…
Participatory praxis as an imperative for health-related stigma research
Participatory praxis is increasingly valued for the reliability, validity, and relevance of research results that it fosters. Participatory methods become…
They’ve Taken America’s Temperature — and It’s Running High
Data from Kinsa, which makes internet-connected smart thermometers, indicates it’s a bad year for colds, but not the flu.
It doesn’t take much for soldiers to feel cared for
Caring texts sent to active-duty military had important findings in reducing suicide.
Study on measles transmission in China have implications for controlling the epidemic worldwide
A new study on the measles epidemic in China has far-reaching implications for eliminating the infection globally. Using a new…
Giving keener ‘electric eyesight’ to autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles relying on light-based image sensors often struggle to see through blinding conditions, such as fog. But researchers have…
Study examines how compound damaged DNA to understand its connection to cancer
In an effort to understand how colibactin, a compound produced by certain strains of E. coli, may be connected to…