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He found that students who work more than 20 hours a week do significantly worse on tests and come to class less often; half of those low-attending students ended up failing his class, compared to just 7% of high-attending students.
The new political review centers on Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) announcements seeking applications for everything from investigator-initiated research to specific research topics and training grants…. NIH only published three NOFOs between 20 January and 26 March, compared with 163 in 2023 and 147 in 2024 between the same dates. A document seen by Science from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says 27 out of the 41 NOFOs for grants it intended to award in the 2026 fiscal year remain unpublished.
Red Scare author Clay Risen sees parallels between 1950s witch-hunts and the right’s assault on government today
Jacintah McCaffrey’s nearly 25-year career in social work in Northern Ireland began in 2001 with her first role at a children’s residential home.
Labour’s Kim Leadbeater (above) has promised to work with fellow MPs to amend her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to ensure practitioners other than health professionals are allowed not to participate. While social workers were originally not part of the bill’s process for assisted dying, they have been added to it through amendments made by Leadbeater during its recently-concluded committee stage.
After a rocky start, François Bayrou held onto his position as prime minister in February by making France a promise. Trade unions and business lobbies, he said, would be able to hold a series of negotiations to hash out possible amendments to President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial 2023 reform to France’s retirement system. Adopted without a parliamentary vote, Macron’s pension law extracted savings solely on the backs of late-career workers, increasing the retirement age for public pensions from sixty-two to sixty-four while safeguarding employers and wealthy retirees from new charges.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Lori VanWinkle, R-Minot, who said people should have the right to seek treatments that affirm their religious beliefs about sexuality or gender. She previously told lawmakers that she is concerned most counseling is now LGBTQ-affirming and therefore would not be helpful for someone with anti-LGBTQ beliefs. “To prohibit counseling that aligns with traditional or biblical viewpoints is religious discrimination,” she said.
There have been points in history when it was the U.S. that graciously welcomed talented individuals displaced by intolerant, anti-intellectual, or dangerous regimes, and reaped the social, technological and economic rewards. I do not think it hyperbolic to say that this flow is now in the throes of reversal. An investment on this front made by Canada today will be a signal heard around the world and pay off richly in the years and decades to come.
When a person dies, clinicians often look at the cause of death to determine whether it could have been avoided, either by medical prevention such as vaccines or by treatments like antibiotics. These types of deaths are known as avoidable mortalities, and in most high-income countries around the world, the number is going down.
I had just turned thirty and was doing what one does after a big birthday: lamenting my failures. My life felt like a solid C+ and to make it worse I started obsessively stalking old friends’ Facebook pages, finding nothing but achievements and milestones. I’d been hoping for failures and tribulations, for any excuse I could find to grade my life on a curve.
Claire Goodman is a Professor of Health and Care Research at the University of Hertfordshire who, for the last 20 years, has been leading research that looks at older people, mainly living either in their own homes or in care homes, and living and dying in either of those places.
Dipak Sargar in action at the Khelo India Para Games 2025 in New Delhi.
“You are killing my mum to bomb someone’s son”
Systematic reviews of interventions to prevent or reduce violence against women and girls find that sufficient investment into the right programs can address the core drivers of violence and lead to a significant reduction and prevention of violence. The reviews identify that most successful interventions do not typically separate out prevention from early intervention and response. They focus on gender dynamics, power and control, and locally relevant social structures that disempower women and girls.
Social work in hospitals plays a particularly important role in creating a harmonious relationship between the spirit and body of the patient, between the patient and medical staff and between the patient and the community. This is also a necessary factor to increase the satisfaction of the patient and the patient’s family when coming to the hospital for treatment.
A fake website meant to look like a CDC webpage was put up sometime this month and quickly taken offline, but not before diligent information manipulation researchers noticed several signs that it was likely connected to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The site falsely suggested a link between vaccines and autism, using “testimonial” videos made by CHD and long-debunked scientific disinformation. While the site has been taken down, the question remains: what, exactly, was the plan here?
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves. Above: Students walk across the campus of SIU in Carbondale.
These statistics can be found in the latest Administration for Children’s Services prescribing reports, offering rare insight into a long-running national public health concern: the frequent and sometimes haphazard prescribing of psychotropic drugs to foster youth. Federal authorities have warned about the health dangers for more than a dozen years.
Musa al-Gharbi writes that the tumult at Columbia University and other elite schools about Middle East policy is of little consequence to the people struggling in the Middle East. However, what Columbia does is of immense consequence to the overall landscape of higher education in the United States because of a phenomenon sociologists describe as “institutional isomorphism”.
NIH study finds number of steps taken daily may be more important for cancer risk than the intensity of activity.
Despite government claims there will be no return to austerity, sick and disabled people face a real-terms cut to their incomes and the criteria for claiming personal independence payment (Pip) will become stricter than ever. This isn’t just a policy to save £5 billion, it’s cruelty and a devastating attack on disabled people.
Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Children continue to be removed from their homes nearly two decades after the Australian government issued an apology to First Nations peoples for forcibly removing their children.
In the event, where social work practices in Romania and the effects of the EU process were discussed, transformations in the child protection system and social service models were examined in detail.
Delusions, hallucinations and disordered thinking are collectively known as psychosis. These “positive” symptoms are among the most widely recognized aspects of schizophrenia. For about two thirds of patients with schizophrenia—which affects approximately 23 million people around the world—traditional antipsychotic drugs are often highly effective at treating psychosis. But these drugs frequently come with problematic side effects. And they do little to help with the so-called negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as emotional flatness and social withdrawal, or with other issues involving thinking and memory referred to as cognitive problems.
There’s reason to believe that Bisignano is being brought in to finish DOGE’s job, based on his past experience as the CEO of the oligopolist data processing firm Fiserv, the nation’s largest provider of back-office banking services. Crippling Social Security’s ability to serve customers is seen by many as a stalking horse for privatizing parts, if not all, of the system, and companies like Fiserv are waiting in the wings. “Wall Street wants part of the $1.6 trillion that flows through the agency,” said Nancy Altman, a member of Social Security’s advisory board and president of the advocacy group Social Security Works. “There’s money to be made.”
Under the proposed law, mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live would be given the right to end their lives with medical help. Polls show that a majority of Britons back assisted dying and supporters say the law needs to catch up with public opinion.
Silas Xuereb: I characterize this process over the past forty to fifty years as neoliberalism. And this essentially means policy shifts that are motivated by the idea that free markets are the best way to organize everything — the provision of all sorts of goods, from natural resources to housing, health care, and transportation. In Canada, this shift has manifested itself specifically in terms of free-trade agreements that have prioritized protecting investors over supporting workers.
About one-quarter of Mipim attendees are from the UK, with every British banner and brochure focused on one thing: courting investors with the promise of growth. A billboard declares Manchester “The UK’s Growth Opportunity”. Another proclaims that in the Tees Valley, “Anything is Possible”. Newcastle’s CEO and director of investment and growth tell me how the city makes development “dead easy for investment”. But the question is: growth for whom?
Julie Jones, Senior Social Worker at Nightingale House Hospice, explained: “Our intention for the group is to allow carers a much-needed break whilst their loved ones are safely attending our wellbeing sessions here at the hospice.
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian commends the dedication and selfless acts of social workers to help families affected by disasters during the hybrid celebration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Social Work Day at Novotel Araneta City in Cubao, Quezon City
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues. The cuts are likely to further hamstring state health departments, which are already underfunded and struggling with competing demands from chronic diseases, resurgent infections like syphilis and emerging threats like bird flu. Above: An MMR vaccination clinic in Lubbock, Texas, last month amid a measles outbreak.
Scientists developed a compound that appeared to relieve pain in mice without adverse side effects. The finding could lead to more effective alternatives to opioids for chronic pain treatment.
The plan combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of HHS divisions, including:
– The current 82,000 full-time employees will be reduced to 62,000
– 28 divisions will be consolidated to 15
– 10 regional offices will become 5
– Human Resources, Information Technology, Procurement, External Affairs, and Policy will be centralized.
The labeling of these gangs as “terrorists” — and the imprisonment of people they accuse, without any evidence, of being members in a prison designated for those who supposedly fall into this category — exemplifies crucial continuities. These can be traced through the guiding threads of the methodologies of state terror that characterized U.S. strategies and affinities during the Cold War, and which have persisted as the emphasis of U.S. hegemony has shifted to the so-called “drug war” and “anti-terror” paradigms. The elites who benefit and the victims continue to be essentially the same as they were in the 1980s. Above: Nayib Bukele during a visit at CECOT in 2023
The standards, proposed as part of a consultation launched this month, are designed for social workers in their first two years of practice after qualifying and are aligned with the statutory Children’s Social Care National Framework, published in December 2023. According to the consultation document, the post-qualifying standards (PQS) are designed to support social workers in developing confidence and capability in working with children and families.
Eight months on from being elected on the promise of “change”, we’re beginning to see what Labour’s version of that looks like: sweeping cuts to the benefits system that have outraged charities, claimants and backbenchers alike.
University of Birmingham academics secure more than £700,000 to examine how the denial of recourse to public funds affects children living in the UK.
The Department for Education (DfE) has proposed a two-year support scheme for statutory children’s social workers, to replace the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) from September 2027. The planned social work induction programme (SWIP) would give new practitioners “the best possible start to their careers”, said chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler, in a video message to launch a consultation on the proposals.
The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) will launch its sixth school – for social work and social development – in the third quarter of 2025…. Dr Vincent Ng will be appointed as the Dean of the school.
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America called a strike of thousands of workers in Chicago in 1915. The union went on to help launch the CIO in 1935, whose strikes and occupations brought millions into the labor movement.
Investigators have developed a long-acting contraceptive implant that can be delivered through tiny needles to minimize patient discomfort and increase the likelihood of medication use. Their findings in preclinical models provide the technological basis to develop self-administrable contraceptive shots that could mimic the long-term drug release of surgically implanted devices.
In most high-income countries around the world, the number of avoidable mortalities is going down. But in the United States, avoidable deaths have been on the rise for more than a decade, according to a new study by researchers who examined mortality trends across U.S. states and 40 high-income countries.
The end of a romantic relationship usually does not come out of the blue but is indicated one or two years before the breakup. As the results of a psychological study suggest, the terminal stage of a relationship consists of two phases. First, there is a gradual decline in relationship satisfaction, reaching a transition point one to two years before the dissolution of the relationship.
In the last five years, around 400 clubs have closed in Britain – more than a third of the total number…. “A complex matrix of factors are all conspiring against and placing pressure on the sector, making for a perfect storm for nightclubs,” says Tony Rigg, music industry advisor and programme leader at the University of Lancashire.
Amid growing concerns over low birth rates, an aging society, and the looming threat of regional extinction, Korea’s social welfare public servants—key players in addressing these challenges—are being systematically excluded from promotion opportunities. This has sparked alarm over the weakening of professionalism in welfare administration. According to the Chungnam Association for Social Welfare Administration (CASWA), a professional exchange body of welfare public servants in South Chungcheong Province, 49 members hold master’s degrees and 6 have doctorates. Despite their academic and field expertise, many remain overlooked for promotion.
Margin over Mission: When Private Equity Owns Your Hospital, a new book by former Lovelace Women’s Hospital ICU nurse James Kelly, provides numerous case studies that show just how disastrous private equity’s incursion into health care has been—for patients and workers alike. In April 2015, the Chicago-based real estate investment trust Ventas acquired Lovelace Health System, which owned the Albuquerque hospital James worked at.
Up to 25% of new mothers suffer from postpartum depression, which can significantly impact their parenting behavior and the wellbeing of their children. A new study looks at long-term effects of early maternal depression on children, underscoring the need to provide adequate support for mothers who might be struggling.
hen ministers announced an overhaul to welfare payments last week that will result in an estimated 1.2 million disabled people losing eligibility for personal independence payments (Pip), they did not mention the sweeping knock-on effects. Because Pip is a “gateway”, any disabled person who loses the benefit will not only lose that income but other entitlements too, such as free prescriptions and council tax deductions. Most starkly, removing someone’s Pip will mean their unpaid carer losing carer’s allowance – in effect pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once.
The Notre Dame Children’s Centre in Glasgow provides vital support to around 100 families caring for children who have experienced trauma through abuse, neglect or bereavement. However, the charity has warned parents that it will have to shut its doors within 90 days after its main income streams – provided by Glasgow City Council and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – were cut.
