To all the Elf on the Shelf families out there, consider this a warning: Don’t put your elves in the oven. Ever. Parents from Overland Park, Kansas learned this lesson for us, according to Fox News. Chelsea Hightower told the…
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What doctors aren’t always taught: How to spot racism in health care
Betial Asmerom, a fourth-year medical student at the University of California-San Diego, didn’t have the slightest interest in becoming a doctor when she was growing up. As an adolescent, she helped her parents—immigrants from Eritrea who spoke little English—navigate the…
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Buying emergency contraception is legal but not always easy at small, mom-and-pop pharmacies
About 22 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 report having used emergency contraception. But even though the Food and Drug Administration approved levonorgestrel—more commonly known as Plan B—for over-the-counter use for women of all ages in…
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Why babies do not always remember what they have learned
If and how babies recall what they have learned depends on their mood: what they’ve learned when feeling calm is inaccessible when they’re acitive and vice versa. This was shown in a study conducted by developmental psychologists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum…
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