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“Today’s announcement shows the pressure is moving Labor in the right direction, but reflects a lack of understanding of the severity of placement poverty and its impact on students. This is yet another Labor solution that won’t touch the sides of the crisis.”
Medical professionals who try to help children with gender identity issues could become “frightened” of prosecution under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”, Hilary Cass has warned. The leading paediatrician, who last month published a landmark review into child gender services in England, said that clinicians would be worried about becoming the “test case” under new laws.
Medi-Cal has dropped several hundred thousand low-income children from the health insurance rolls since April 2023, according to a new report from Georgetown University.
The site of the first desegregated school in Austin, the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, has delayed its demolition, but it still needs to obtain a State Antiquities Landmark status from a state board to survive. However, it could still be torn down even if it receives this status.
Mayors of large US cities are looking to Houston for inspiration in solving their homelessness problems. But Houston’s “Housing First” policy is designed to clear the streets and buoy landlords rather than provide stable housing for all. Above: A homeless man seeks shelter from the rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas.
Bias and stigma can be experienced and communicated in many ways, including the language used by clinicians in encounter notes in electronic health records (EHRs). Stigmatizing language (SL) can discourage people from seeking help for medical disorders, whereas person-first language, avoiding stigmatizing terms like “addict” and “abuse,” and individualizing people helps to defeat stigma. A team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine set out to investigate the use of SL in clinical notes of patients with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD).
It began with the “war on terror” after September 11 and the subsequent attacks in Europe…. In the name of fighting the respective enemies, a massive rearmament of the military, police and surveillance technologies was set in motion, basic civil rights were restricted. Urgent concerns such as social justice and climate protection have been and continue to be marginalized with reference to ever new states of emergency and the overpowering threat posed by the current enemy