A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour. Many people believe that to start…
Category: Anthropology
What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere
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…
Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
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 sharp increases since 2021 and with…
Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment
It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi-Fi password, before…
There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care
More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80. With longer lives often…
Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why
In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth died from accidental overdoses. That’s more than died from traditional obstetric complications like infection,…
Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up
Since nursing contract negotiations heated up in January 2026 at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh and at UPMC Altoona, the debate shifted from standard wage disputes to a more fundamental…
Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have them suffer harsh social stigma
John Davidson, whose life inspired the award-winning biopic “I Swear,” involuntarily shouted a racial slur during Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo’s speech at the BAFTA film awards in London…
Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health
More than 128,000 Floridians are living with HIV. The state has the second-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses after Georgia, with approximately 4,500 new diagnoses in 2023, the most recent…
Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child’s palate
It’s 5:45 p.m. and you’ve just arrived home after a long day at work. You’d like nothing more than a glass of pinot and to binge old episodes of your…
