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The Department of Health and Human Services has published new policies on research misconduct, which apply to research institutions receiving funding through the U.S. Public Health Service. The policies set standards that institutions must follow when investigating and potentially sanctioning researchers alleged to have engaged in research misconduct.
Lynette (far left) with Cheryl Kitchener, Bill McCarthy (NSW member for Northern Tablelands) and John Nalson (Pro Vice Chancellor, UNE) at the opening of Oorala in 1986
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis are the cofounders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), a multilingual formation organizing across the vast sprawl of the city. Situated in multiple organizing histories, LATU organizes to build tenant power and to prefigure a housing system not built on a foundation of extractive and carceral relationships with landlords or the state. Rosenthal and Vilchis have written a radical treatise, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, that uses the authors’ organizing experiences with LATU—and one of its predecessors, Union de Vecinos in Boyle Heights—to make an argument for a permanent rent strike; the abolition of rent.
“We have a profound shortage of affordable housing in the state,” said Dr. Nicholas Barr, Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, outside of Siegel Suite flexible-stay apartments in Las Vegas.
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
There are 20 adult social work apprenticeship positions available starting in January 2025. This offers a unique opportunity to study for a fully funded social work degree with the University of East Anglia (UEA) while working for the council. Above: Councillor Richard Howitt, chair of Cambridgeshire’s adults and health committee.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s latest covid bulletin spreads anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines.
For Hawa Lee, pursuing a Master of Applied Social Work was more than just a return to academia. It was a transformative journey that deepened her commitment to helping others and grew her passion for mental health advocacy.
A 9 mm “ghost gun” pistol build kit with a commercial slide and barrel with a polymer frame is displayed in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. More than a dozen states, including some battleground states, debated and enacted a variety of firearms regulations addressing storage requirements, gun-free zones, bans on firearm purchase tracking and permitless carry.
Childhood trauma can raise the risk of developing major diseases later in life that vary based on a person’s unique experiences and even their sex, new research concludes. Why it matters: Although it’s widely understood that trauma early in life has biological and real-world health impacts, the findings shed light on how different life experiences can shape the way the body functions and make a person susceptible to chronic diseases.
Given these challenges, or at least hefty qualifications, to this presentation of Trump’s white working class base, it is curious that Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol’s Rust Belt Union Blues appears to accept its premise hook line and sinker.
Despite its name, pink cocaine doesn’t necessarily contain any cocaine. Instead, it’s often a mixture of various other substances, including MDMA, ketamine and 2C-B. MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, is a stimulant with psychedelic properties while ketamine is a powerful anaesthetic which has sedative and hallucinogenic effects. 2C drugs are classed as psychedelics but they can also produce stimulant effects.
For their study, the researchers assigned the participants, who all came from different professional sectors, to four groups of roughly equal size. The smartphone group reduced their private smartphone use by one hour a day for one week. The sport group increased their daily physical activity by 30 minutes. The combination group did both, and the control group didn’t change their routine at all. All participants completed online questionnaires before these interventions, immediately afterwards and two weeks after the intervention period ended, providing information about their well-being, both with regard to work and mental health.
One woman’s story of opioid use disorder and joining an NIH clinical trial
Most people believe in fair pay for honest work. So why aren’t low-wage workers better paid? After 30 years of research, I can tell you that it’s not because employers don’t have the cash — it’s because profitable corporations spend that money on their stock prices and CEOs instead.
As the city continues to grapple with high rates of juvenile delinquency, Dr. Lovell is offering critical insights into how understanding the developmental phase of emerging adulthood could be the key to addressing the crisis effectively.
The FDA says abortion pills are safe if taken as directed. Here’s what patients should expect…. What some people call the “abortion pill” is actually a combination of two pills — mifepristone and misoprostol — commonly called “abortion medication.”
Researchers at ETH Zurich have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market, kills tumour cells in the dreaded glioblastoma – at least in the cell-culture dish. Above: Glioblastoma cells under the microscope.
I am a 42-year-old woman about to undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer. I’m increasingly feeling what I think is anger, which has always been a difficult emotion for me to experience in myself. In the past I’ve squashed it down and turned it inwards, resulting in a low mood. However, I feel as if I’m about to have a reckoning with anger.
RC holds a picture of his biological mother and brother while sifting through family mementos at his apartment
On the anniversary of Mayor Rahm Emanuel closing a swath of Chicago’s mental health clinics, the mayor’s detractors rally at his office in 2013.
I am not crying for Carl Icahn, who has lost about $17 billion over the last few weeks as investors have fled Icahn Enterprises stock. I’m talking about it today because the saga offers an important lesson about why the American economy hasn’t been working for most Americans in this era of shareholder capitalism.
Since 1964, the Head Start program has been a lifeline for generations of women and families, providing free, high-quality educational, health, social-emotional, and nutritional services and opening doors to opportunity and economic justice that had long been kept shut. Now, as Head Start approaches its 60th anniversary, it’s a great time to look back on all that the program has achieved — and look forward to what our country could look like if Head Start was strengthened.
Outsourcing development to the private market leaves affordable housing subject to the boom-and-bust cycle of private investment. What’s more, the federal government relinquishes the oversight needed to protect tenants from abusive landlords and racial discrimination. The result is a housing market where corporate landlords make record profits while half of America’s 44 million renters struggle to pay rent. For a generation of young people, the idea of home has become loaded with anxiety; too many know they can’t find an affordable, stable place to rent, let alone buy.
The distribution of these locks continues as long as the supplies last, “We know that talking about guns and firearms can be a stigmatized or politicized conversation, and we just want to talk to folks about safety,” Sarah Carter, a social worker at Kennedy Krieger Institute, stated.
The number of people taking ADHD medication is at a record high – and the NHS is feeling the strain as it tries to diagnose and treat the condition. Since 2015, the number of patients in England prescribed drugs to treat ADHD has nearly trebled, and BBC research suggests that it would take eight years to assess all the adults on waiting lists.
As a clinical social worker and health scholar with 40 years of experience in end-of-life care and bereavement, I knew that I needed some way to tend to my grief for my mother. While in lockdown, I began looking for resources to help me. Then I heard about the wind phone.
Social workers who work with older people will know how important the Winter Fuel Allowance is for health and wellbeing. The Allowance gives older people the confidence to keep their homes heated without fear of large bills that they cannot afford to pay.
Budget negotiations are coming to a head as the countdown is on within Government for Budget Day on October 1…. The welfare package for Budget 2025 will be finalised by ministers and senior officials shortly.
Organizers with Camp Nenookaasi say the situation is untenable for the city’s unhoused residents. They’re pushing local elected officials to decriminalize safe outdoor encampments, keep encampment evictions to a minimum, and protect residents’ rights and dignity during necessary evictions. And in the meantime, they’re finding creative ways to help protect residents – such as building yurts to protect unhoused individuals during Minnesota’s cold winters.
At age 15, Mariana Abarca moved with her family from Mexico to Little Rock, where her father was excelling as a bicycle mechanic.
Hilary has had a much-lauded career in social work practice, education and research, spending many years up to her retirement as a Professor of Social Work at Kingston University. She is a researcher, a social work educator, a university leader and a social worker with a passion and commitment to the advancement of the profession.
In September 2023, the UK Health Security Agency urged students to use condoms and get tested regularly for STIs to help prevent the spread of infections. This is wise advice for everyone, not just students. The most recent data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shows that syphilis cases rose by 34% from 2021 to 2022, chlamydia cases by 16% and gonorrhoea cases by 48%.
DA MPL Wendy Kaizer-Philander stated that the ongoing victimisation of social workers in the Western Cape had ‘reached a critical point and could not be tolerated’. ‘The Western Cape government has implemented measures such as unmarked vehicles and collaboration with law enforcement to protect social workers,’ said Kaizer-Philander.
Hong Kong’s three-tiered student suicide prevention system needs streamlining, experts say, after 280 cases were reported in the highest tier. They said cumbersome procedures and parental reluctance are hindering access to support services, while schools are concerned about long waiting times for psychiatric care.
Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and Payment for Placements (P4P)(Opens in a new window) recognize the significant impact of the cost of higher education on students’ overall well-being and are committed to making social work education more accessible. CSWE remains committed to collaborating with the P4P movement(Opens in a new window) regarding ways to reduce the cost of social work education, including paid internship opportunities.
In a recent report, the four surviving former lords chief justice of England and Wales have laid out how changes in sentence lengths and aggressive sentencing legislation have increased the prison population. As they write: “Over the half-century that we have been involved in the law, custodial sentence lengths have approximately doubled and the same is true of prison numbers. The connection between the two is obvious”
A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were born into very low-opportunity neighborhoods, and that babies born into these neighborhoods had a 16-percent greater risk of being born preterm. The study sheds new light on the health consequences of structural racism and historically discriminatory practices — such as redlining and disproportionate exposures to pollutants — that continue to shape modern-day neighborhood conditions and circumstances.
Trust is the glue that binds us: it is the force of the social contract and the bedrock of democracy. Trust fosters co-operation, strengthens social cohesion, facilitates policy implementation and encourages public engagement and participation. Without trust, societies fall victim to fragmentation, which favours populism and undermines social stability amid geopolitical confrontation.
Josselyn Valenzuela, a graduate student in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work, serves as the bilingual research coordinator for the Mindful Moms Study, which studies the impact of mindfulness activities and social connectedness on people who are experiencing depression while pregnant.
Canyon Crest Academy students Litong Tian and Kevin Wang, both 17, pose at their school in Pacific Highlands Ranch… Tian and Wang published an investigation of their school’s foundation that focused on fees charged to student clubs, unidentified spending expenses and more.
Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have. Above: Public housing residents and allies from around the city rally outside Chelsea Houses in Manhattan in 2023, after plans for demolition were announced.
Plan will advance knowledge of virus biology to improve detection, treatment and prevention.
“This is new, dangerous ground, funding new voucher schools,” said Josh Cowen, a senior fellow at the Education Law Center and the author of a new book on the history of billionaire-led voucher efforts. For decades, churches have relied on conservative philanthropy to be able to build their schools, Cowen said, or they’ve held fundraising drives or asked their diocese for help. They’ve never, until now, been able to build schools expressly on the public dime.
Means testing insanity in the United Kingdom.
My husband, Alan Rushton, who has died aged 79, ran a post-qualifying course for social workers specialising in mental health for many years and played a prominent part in research into children placed away from home.
From 1979 until his retirement, Alan taught mental health social work to qualified social workers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, inspiring his students and teaching them research skills. His work on family placements of older children gained him a doctorate in 1999.
Social workers here have not encountered victims of deepfake harassment, but warn that South Korea’s situation should be a warning to the rest of the world. The Straits Times found more than six Telegram channels offering deepfake services that allow users to develop “nude renders” using photos of real people within seconds.
By the end of the month, the Austrian Freedom party (FPÖ), founded by two former members of the SS, Anton Reinthaller and Friedrich Peter, is expected to form an anti-immigration, pro-Russian government. It will cement a new hard-right axis across Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, and more importantly, Italy, where step by step the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni (who met Keir Starmer on Monday), is accused of taking control of the press and the judiciary.