Research

Catholic hospitals often do not provide certain types of reproductive health care. Freedman and colleagues conducted research on women’s knowledge about hospital religious affiliation and its impact on their decisions about where to get care.

Everyone loves a hackathon, it seems. How much do hackathons really contribute to solving public health problems? Are they a meaningful new tool, or simply the latest fad?

Conversations between patients and providers that treat patients as unique individuals can help providers develop care plans to better match their patients’ lives.

Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans, and five times more likely to be killed unarmed. Jacob Bor and colleagues conducted research to measure the mental health impact of police shootings.

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting a similar constellation of symptoms that affect veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991.

Sports participation in younger athletes has evolved from activities for fun to intense, specialized training. Recent data shows a relationship between socioeconomic status and overuse injury. 

Crisis pregnancy centers are known for their anti-abortion work, but some also focus on preventing women from accessing contraceptives.

Yi-Ching Lin and colleagues found that self-perceived weight and frustration with body image were more related to bullying than actual weight, particularly among female students.

The current obesity and diabetes epidemics have sparked renewed interest in identifying alternatives to table sugar, but sugar substitutes currently on the market have not yet lived up to expectations. 

News coverage associating cyberbullying with suicide alerts schools and families to the risks of technology use. However, repeated and overly simplistic news coverage of suicide may have serious consequences.