Articles, Leading Stories

Judge allows Affordable Care Act subsidies to end

By Janine Weisman

A week before the 2018 open enrollment period began, a federal judge rejected an emergency motion filed by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general – including four...

Grant helps people who disclose assault

By Pamela Berard

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovations Research Center are evaluating a strategy they created to help keep on campus incidents of intimate...

Psychologists at odds over science in Mass. high court case

By Janine Weisman

Twelve days after Massachusetts’ Concord District Court put Julie Eldred on probation for a larceny charge in the summer of 2016, she tested positive for fentanyl and was...

Full-service VA Hospital still possible in New Hampshire

By Catherine Robertson Souter

After a Boston Globe Spotlight report in July on the poor state of care at the Manchester, N.H., VA Medical Center, the Veteran’s Administration reacted swiftly to address...

URI offers Mental Health First Aid training

By Pamela Berard

When it comes to accidents or physical illness, First Aid training can help minimize the damage and speed up healing time. The University of Rhode Island is taking a similar...

Study: panic doesn’t increase adverse effects for pregnant women

By Pamela Berard

Neither panic disorder nor generalized anxiety disorder increased adverse birth outcomes for pregnant women, according to a recent Yale study.

However, women who used...

Role of ‘bystanders’ to abuse examined

By Catherine Robertson Souter

With multiple stories in the press and on social media around accusations of sexual abuse, harassment, and assault, a renewed focus has been placed on strengthening support for...