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Abortion clinics in Southern Michigan are performing substantially more abortions since the Dobbs Supreme Court ruling

Gerrymandering weakens local political representation and may lead to reduced access to vital health care services in the US.

Youth Cigarette Smoking: a major public health victory has been achieved. Yet, few people are talking about it

Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide

Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries, 1933–2021

Large multi-cohort study (n=32,426 current/former female nurses) found that 93% had been or planned to be vaccinated

Researchers analyzed tweets corresponding to week before and week after Trump’s tweet with phrase, “Chinese Virus.” When comparing week before to week after, there was significantly greater increase in anti-Asian hashtags associated with #chinesevirus (P < .001)

Neurotoxicity of Ortho-Phthalates: Recommendations for Critical Policy Reforms to Protect Brain Development in Children

When Washington State required that employers provide paid sick leave, there was a reduction in the number of employees who worked while sick.

"Ceasefire weekends" where activists urge community members to stop shooting associated with 52% gun violence reduction in Baltimore

Negative Police Encounters as Pathways to Depressive Symptoms Among US Black Men: Police interactions need not rise to the level of excessive violence to have an impact on depressive symptoms

More than 10% of female health care workers lack health insurance

Strengthening of state-level firearm laws is associated with decreases in workplace homicide rates.

Right-to-Carry gun laws are associated with a 29% increase in firearm workplace homicides, according to a new longitudinal study of 50 states

Bans on high-capacity magazines appear to reduce both the incidence of, and number of people killed in, high-fatality mass shootings.

High-fatality (6+) mass shootings with large-capacity magazines had 62% higher death tolls, according to a multivariate analysis of incidents from 1990-2017

A large meta-analysis (n=28,431) found that shift workers had a 30% higher risk of poor mental health and depression than daytime workers

Study estimates that work requirements for US food assistance programs likely caused over 600,000 participants to lose their benefits from 2013 to 2017, even after controlling for the strengthening economy.

A large randomized controlled trial has shown that graded/color-coded nutritional labels on the front of food packages appeared to improve how nutritious students’ food purchases were.

Federal funding for abstinence-only programs had no effect on teenage pregnancy overall, but did lead to an increase in teenage pregnancy in conservative states

U.S police are killing about three men per day, says this new study. Police in the U.S

The role of health in climate lawsuits

Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate…

Households' payments for medical premiums, copayments and deductibles pushed more than 7 million Americans into poverty in 2014, according to a study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health.

Legalization of cannabis in Colorado associated with 6.5% reduction in opioid-related deaths, a longitudinal study by the American Public Health Association

Elder financial fraud and scams is a common problem, affecting approximately 1 of every 18 cognitively intact, community-dwelling older adults each year

Crash fatality data do not suggest that legalized marijuana has led to greater or more frequent impaired driving related accidents

1st broad epidemiological study of drug abuse patterns in young adult offenders

US states with medical marijuana laws and dispensaries were associated with reductions in traffic fatalities, especially among those aged 25 to 44 years based on analysis of data from the 1985–2014 Fatality Analysis Reporting System.

Violence spreads like a disease among adolescents, study finds. Contagion moves from friends to friends of friends and beyond

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