A large randomized trial showed home visits from nurses for pregnant people did not improve their or their babies’ health outcomes.
Maternal Health
Posted inMental Health
Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
Girls in the U.S. are experiencing record high levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk. How can schools help girls of color navigate this crisis?
Posted inHealth Law
‘No Place Else To Go’: Inside a Former Abortion Clinic
What happens when an abortion clinic can no longer provide abortions?
Posted inPublic Health
Nursing Home Visits, Abortion and Intimate Partner Violence: More from ASHEcon
Soleil recaps two more fascinating studies from the 2023 ASHEcon conference.
Posted inHealth Equity
What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
We get a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of a major health economics conference.
Posted inHealth Equity
New Insights into Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Soleil interviews health economist Jevay Grooms about the NBER’s 2023 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities conference.
Posted inHealth Law
A Closer Look at the Abortion Medication Mifepristone
What is the abortion drug at the center of a new legal maelstrom–and what happens if patients lose access to it?
Posted inHealth Law
The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans
Republican lawmakers in at least seven states are pushing to make their state abortion bans less restrictive.
Posted inHealth Equity
The Challenge of Improving Birth Outcomes for Low-Income Women
Jose Fernandez shares new research that explores whether longer and more frequent prenatal nurse visits effect adverse birth outcomes.
Posted inHealth Law
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggest will happen to people who are denied abortions.