Sean Salai

Childhood developmental disabilities spiked during COVID-19 pandemic, says CDC

Diagnosed developmental disabilities in children and teenagers soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

July 13, 2023

Growing share of teen girls visited ER for mental crises during pandemic

The number of teenage girls visiting emergency rooms for eating disorders, self-cutting and suicide attempts soared in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study has found.

July 12, 2023

Study links perceived racism to development of obesity in children

Children who report personal experiences of racial discrimination are likelier to develop obesity, a study has found.

July 11, 2023

Trust in higher education dives, poll shows

Trust in higher education has fallen sharply among adults responding to Gallup polling as inflation jacks up costs.

July 11, 2023

Experts debate whether new citizenship test will be harder to pass

The Biden administration's attempt to redesign the citizenship test has some immigration advocates arguing it will make it tougher for new arrivals to win citizenship.

July 6, 2023

Study links hearing loss to increased fatigue after middle age

Hearing-impaired adults are nearly twice as likely as those with healthy ears to have chronic fatigue starting in middle age as they strain to process sounds, a study has found.

July 6, 2023

Confidence in U.S. institutions falls to new lows in Gallup poll

People's confidence in U.S. institutions fell to a new low in the latest Gallup polling, released Thursday.

July 6, 2023

Census: Biggest cities lost more than 1M day residents as commuters stayed home during pandemic

The daytime populations of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago plunged to ghost town levels as more commuters worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

July 5, 2023

Red state internet searches for ‘self-managed abortion’ surged after Dobbs

A new analysis of Google Trends data shows that internet searches for self-managed abortions rose sharply in states that restricted the procedure last summer.

July 5, 2023

More people find ‘American Dream’ ‘out of reach,’ poll finds

More people say the American Dream is "out of reach" for them than a year ago, according to an annual poll released Monday.

July 3, 2023

Pre-COVID death rates from drugs, guns reached ‘national emergency’ level, study finds

Death rates for drug overdoses, shootings and all other injuries "increased substantially" nationwide during the two decades heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, a study has found.

July 3, 2023

Scholars hesitate to say where crumbling faith in institutions will lead

Recent polls show Americans increasingly distrust science and organized religion, government and the media, public education and law enforcement -- creating what sounds like the background of a dystopian novel.

July 3, 2023

Pediatric diabetes surged during pandemic, study finds

Children and adolescents became likelier to develop new-onset diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic than before it, a new study finds.

June 30, 2023

Tranq increasingly linked to opioid deaths, CDC finds

The animal tranquilizer xylazine was detected more often in opioid overdose deaths from 2018 to 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in two reports.

June 30, 2023

White professor files reverse discrimination lawsuit against Penn State

A White English professor who resigned from Pennsylvania State University at Abington after being asked to grade minority students differently has filed a federal reverse discrimination lawsuit.

June 29, 2023

Queer young adults report more emotional, mental, physical problems than straight peers

Lesbian, gay and bisexual adults aged 18 to 25 are much more likely than their heterosexual peers to report mental, emotional and physical problems, according to a new poll.

June 29, 2023

Remote employment doubled at beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, remained elevated in 2021

Fully remote jobs more than doubled early in the COVID-19 pandemic and stayed elevated in 2021 as workers deemed "non-essential" delayed returning to the workplace, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.

June 28, 2023

Record number of 40-year-olds have never married, live alone

A record number of U.S. 40-year-olds have never married and most live alone, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data going back more than a century.

June 28, 2023

CDC: Pregnant women with COVID were older, whiter, more educated as disease evolved

Pregnant women with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infections were likely to be older, whiter and more educated as the pandemic unfolded, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

June 28, 2023

Gallup: Most adults say pandemic is over, but life isn’t normal

Most adults responding to the latest Gallup polling say for the first time that the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, but most also say their lives have not returned to normal.

June 28, 2023