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Housing insecurity, incident geriatric conditions, and mortality in community-living older persons

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this cohort study of community-living older U.S. persons, poor housing affordability was associated with higher risks of frailty, disability, dementia, and mortality, and poor housing quality was associated with higher risks of frailty, disability, and mortality. These findings highlight housing insecurity as a clinically relevant social determinant of health among older persons.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

International availability and price of ultraexpensive drugs in Medicare Part D

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: Despite rapid expansion of ultraexpensive drugs in Medicare Part D, this cohort study found that availability in comparable economies remains limited, and internationally unavailable products often have higher per-beneficiary spending, underscoring their fiscal significance.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Copycat cockatoos learn to adapt from each other

Australian National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wild cockatoos learn what foods are safe by copying each other, with new research showing these behaviours spread rapidly through social networks and even shaping where birds choose to breed.

Journal: PLOS Biology
Funder: JP received funding from the IMPRS for Organismal Biology. LMA was funded by a Max Planck Research Group Leader fellowship. JP and LMA are currently supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).

Policies intended to protect trade secrets may limit late-career wages

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Labor market policies intended to protect trade secrets and spur research and development may instead limit late-career wages and encourage firms to replace human labor with machines and other automation equipment, according to a study in the journal Labour Economics by researchers at Penn State, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Colorado State University.

Journal: Labour Economics

Case Western Reserve University receives largest commitment to higher ed in Ohio history: $125M from Mandel Foundation

Case Western Reserve University
Business Announcement

As Case Western Reserve University celebrates its bicentennial, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation have made a historic commitment toward the university’s future: a $125 million commitment—the foundations’ largest in their history and believed to be the biggest gift ever to higher education in the state of Ohio.

New laws cut cannabis arrests, but racial disparities persist

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While recreational cannabis laws have significantly reduced arrests for cannabis possession and sales, racial disparities in arrests still exist, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and The University of Texas at Austin. The authors suggest that recreational cannabis laws do not fully resolve underlying systemic inequities.

Journal: American Economic Journal Economic Policy

Traumatised children find little support within their own social circle

Radboud University Nijmegen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Talking helps if you’ve been through a difficult experience. But for children who have been victims of or witnesses to domestic violence, this isn’t always the case. They don’t always perceive traditional support figures such as parents and friends as safe or helpful, researchers write in a study published this week in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.

Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma

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