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When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

The Pew Research Center looked at Americans' ability to identify factual statements as opposed to opinion statements. Success rates varied significantly, they found — and partisan bias played a role.

Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder

Manvir Singh reviews “Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us,” by Herman Pontzer, and considers the hidden cost of pediatric growth charts and other universal benchmarks in medicine and public health.

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

The 33-year-old told Newsweek that she wasn't taken seriously, despite suffering from one major warning sign.

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

The farms will "reparent" them.

Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

The documents confirm Latino civil rights pioneers' long-held suspicions about surveillance.

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

The first generation of kids to receive intensive ABA has grown up — and many have criticized it as harmful and even abusive.

Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.

In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.

HIV/AIDS-centered Willow River One Heartland camp is for sale, says founder Neil Willenson

There are striking parallels between the two syndromes – and scientists hope the link could help to unravel the mysteries of both.

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

Oregon prisons limit solitary confinement to 90 days, but Black Lives Matter protester Malik Muhammad has been in the hole for some 250 days.

Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.

Christine Gauthier accuses Canadian official of making comments while enquiring about making her home accessible

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due to a patchwork of regulation.

People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or keep a job.