Intimate partner violence and urban female adolescents
2009 study in Maternal and Child Health Journal on high rates of domestic violence against urban female teens.
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Opiate use by U.S. mothers and increases in neonatal abstinence syndrome
2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the tripling of rates of babies affected by maternal opiate use over the past decade.
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Impact of jury race and selection on verdicts in criminal trials
2012 study by Duke University published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics on the racial composition of a jury and criminal court outcomes.
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More than 7 million children live with a parent with alcohol problems
2012 report from the U.S. government’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality spotlighting data relating to children of alcoholics in the United States.
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Style overview: Understanding the differences between AP and Chicago style
Stories are what you write. Style is how you write them — rules to ensure that your stories are as clear and consistent as possible. While all style guides have the same goal, the specifics are often different.
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Early 2000s: A period of declining teen summer employment rates
2010 study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in Monthly Labor Review on teen summer-employment trends.
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Net migration from Mexico falls to zero — and perhaps less
2012 report by the Pew Hispanic Center on the rate of migrations between Mexico and the United States over the last 160 years as well as the present.
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Health reporting: Semester-long course on covering the science, policy and business of health care
Semester-long course on covering health care in the United States, including investigating wrongdoing in health and medicine, and interpret health in political, socio-economic and medical contexts.
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Demand for health insurance among uninsured Americans
2012 study from Princeton University on the number of uninsured Americans who might participate in reform efforts.
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Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to gestational age and birthweight
2012 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on the relationship between maternal prenatal insecticide exposure and a child’s gestational age and birthweight.
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