When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, it undertook a major expansion of Medicaid—a public assistance program that offers...

On January 19, Brown announced a review of its alcohol and social event policies and put into place an interim policy “prohibiting...

On February 5, the Rhode Island House Committee on Health, Education and Welfare heard testimony from supporters of a bill that would...

‘‘Here’s how to tell if your company is a philanthropic hypocrite,” the Guardian’s Suzanne McGee fumed in early October, following news...

The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest...

This year, the first vaccines licensed in the United States, those for rabies and typhoid, celebrated their centennial. The better half...

Dr. Lindsay Orchowski, a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior of Alpert Medical School and a leading...

Sexual assault on college campuses is receiving increased scrutiny. As calls to combat sexual assault grow louder on campuses across the...

This month, the fight to maintain and expand women’s reproductive rights has taken some serious blows. Across the country, several...

Sexual assault and domestic violence have long dominated national attention. However, in response to the increasingly disparate nature of...

Despite the intense scrutiny of the health care debate sparked by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Americans have overlooked a simmering...

On August 14, 2014, Phoenix Police arrived at Michelle Cusseaux’s home to fulfill a court-ordered transport to a mental health facility....

Mass incarceration has found a comfortable home in the underbelly of American life. It slips through the cracks of democratic oversight...

This article contains a discussion of sexual assault, which may be triggering for some readers. Imagine a young female-identified student...

Over 8 million people have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), exceeding the White House’s enrollment goal for...

When “Adam” told the psychiatrist he was a pedophile she told him he was wrong, that he must be mistaken. But Adam knew he was, sexual...

A majority of Americans have now begun to embrace human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. With each report of a new successful...

Mississippi bears the unfortunate distinction of highest infant mortality rate in the United States. Context is everything, but...

Hello from Arlington! There might be snow on the ground, but it is indeed late March — and that means that the Supreme Court has finally...

There are more gun-inflicted suicides than gun-inflicted homicides in the United States and have been since the Center for Disease...