The academic in me is never going to say causality,” said Harvard's Jeremy Faust. “But the person with a functioning brain is ...

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Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

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Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

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Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

About a decade ago, a Topsham-area school district became concerned about how often staff members physically restrained students who were acting out and put them in seclusion rooms, especially the ...

Krystal Emerson never imagined her son would spend his days at school being forcibly moved against his will by school staff and shut in an empty room. But during the 2023-24 school year at Ellsworth ...

Over the summer, the 43-year-old mother had exhausted every avenue to find her teenage son the mental health care he badly needed as his behavior spiraled to alarming and dangerous levels. The ...

Our Data Fellowship offers journalists an opportunity to transform their reporting by training them to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. They finish the five-month program equipped ...

Maine students have been restrained and secluded more than 22,000 times a year in some years. But the real number of times educators put students in holds, move them against their will and shut them ...