Archive for December 2025

The interaction between activities of daily living and psychological resilience on all-cause mortality and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: A cohort study based on CLHLS

LAT | R Gauthier

Temperatures rose into the 90s as the farmworkers continued their harvest.

Off-Label Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Patients With HIV: Pilot Study 3 Semaglutide (HARP)

Awaab’s Law: Guidance for tenants in social housing

The psychology workforce and disadvantaged communities: A brief report on state-level differences.

Hong Kong exhibition explores local LGBTQ history in the ’80s and ’90s – from gay bars to civil society groups

Waltzing Matilda, opened in the late 1950s in Tsim Sha Tsui, is believed to be Hong Kong’s first gay bar – but that was never the plan.

Patient administrative burden: a scoping review

What the data says about food stamps in the U.S.

AI Disclosures Project

Licensing Inequities in Social Work: Financial Barriers, Test Bias, and Implications for Professional Education

Social Work Professional Organizations: A Comparative International Perspective

Pharmacologic treatment of perinatal depression

Librarians and Publishers alarmed as Tennessee libraries shut down for GOP ‘Book Purge’

Common Dreams | | S Simpson/Getty

Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters. For Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims reported Tuesday that the “book purge” is required to be carried out at all 181 libraries in the Tennessee Regional Library System, which encompasses most of the state, aside from cities like Nashville and Memphis.

NC launches new student loan forgiveness program for mental health services working in rural communities

CBS 17 | NCDHHS

College graduates working in mental health services and more can get up to $50,000 in student loan forgiveness through a new program designed to help bring those services to rural communities.

Vague Offers of Cash Fail to Address Looming Premium Spikes for Marketplace Enrollees

Tribally Owned Casinos May Improve Economic Conditions on Reservations and Lower Unemployment for Nearby People of All Races

NASW Indiana Chapter has grave concerns regarding removal of lecturer Jessica Adams

Distrust and Disrepair: How Homeowners’ Perceptions of Contractors Matter

Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment

Supervised online training of clinicians in the assessment and treatment of young people with body dysmorphic disorder: a feasibility study

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest among physician-authors in leading US psychiatry journals: a cross-sectional study

Tenure-Track or Mommy Track? The Untold Stories of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Mothers

Doctoral Proposal Writing: A Guide for International Students

Risk prediction models for depression in older adults with cancer

Starbucks to pay NYC workers $35m after alleged labour law violations

BBC | Getty

Thousands of workers remain on strike – in New York City and beyond – to demand a “fair union contract that memorializes job protections, better staffing, and higher pay”, Lynne Fox, Workers United’s international president, said in a statement. “For too long, Starbucks has acted with impunity: manipulating schedules, disrespecting workers, and ignoring legal protections put into place by New Yorkers to protect working people from unfair business practices,” Ms Fox said.

Women’s Living Arrangements at First Birth

The War on Tenure

Optimizing Long-Acting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Interventions in Carceral Settings (NOTRE)

Switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes and oral nicotine pouches in adults with low-income who smoke: Qualitative findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial

My Fight For Irish Freedom

OECD Well-being Data Monitor

Handbook of Policy Advice

In 50 chapters on different topics and country experiences, leading international experts explore how issues and developments such as social media and AI have impacted the content, quality and organization of policy advice for modern governments. They discuss how the nature and deployment of policy expertise is changing amidst the fragmentation of existing information ecosystems and growing distrust in traditional actors and institutions. The Handbook analyses the features and problems of existing studies and practices such as evidence-based policy-making and addresses the future of policy advising, illustrating the impact and implications of ongoing shifts towards more pluralistic and social-media-driven sources of policy knowledge.