Does citizenship relate to contraceptive use? In California, Asian and Pacific Islander noncitizens without green cards used condoms more often than US-born women, who used IUDs or implants more. Researchers suggest insurance gaps may limit access to methods requiring a provider. buff.ly/Orivbs5

Citizenship Status and Contraceptive Method Use Among Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Women in California - PubMed

Citizenship status confers rights and access to healthcare, yet little is known about how it impacts contraception use and type of method use. This study examined the role of citizenship status on…

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🥗 Are American diets getting healthier? From 2007 to 2018, nearly two-thirds of food calories came from products high in sodium, saturated fat, or added sugar. That barely changed, but foods high in saturated fat made up a growing portion. Research from @uncpopcenter.bsky.social 🔎 buff.ly/AK1xkP3

💰 Less debt doesn't always mean better finances. A study of divorcing Wisconsin parents finds that mortgage and auto debt declines before divorce filings, then trends upward. The decline may reflect selling a home or car, not improved financial security. 🔎 @irpwisc.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/zeT7KcZ

🎓 Why do older adults with more education tend to age more slowly biologically?Research from @utexasresearch.bsky.social finds they also tend to have more wealth, greater social participation, fewer depressive symptoms, and less smoking—all linked to slower aging.🔗https://buff.ly/YxF5oGj

Do local schools reflect the racial makeup of the neighborhoods they serve? Not always. A study across 14 large U.S. school districts found that local public schools were often less White than their surrounding neighborhoods. 🧵

Older adults with disabilities who live alone may face greater barriers to routine healthcare. A new U.S. study found those living alone had lower odds of receiving an annual checkup—even though nearly all had health insurance. 🧵

What parents say about sex may shape contraceptive use. A new study of young Black women and adolescent girls found differences depending on whether conversations with parents focused on contraception, abstinence, covered a broad range of sexual health topics, or were limited.

Breast cancer risk isn’t shaped only by genetics and lifestyle. A new study in New Mexico found higher breast cancer incidence in areas with long-term exposure to 5 metals in fine particulate air pollution: chromium, cobalt, copper, manganese, and mercury. @pop.psu.edu @unm.edu 🔗 buff.ly/YufRXTh

How little are U.S. teens sleeping? In 2021–2023, just 22% of 18- and 19-year-olds regularly got 7+ hours a night. A study spanning more than three decades finds teen sleep has continued to decline. Researchers point to later school start times as one way to help reverse the trend. 🔗 buff.ly/Aqcdi3e

Expanding access to contraception may have benefits beyond preventing unintended pregnancies. A study of a St. Louis initiative providing no-cost contraception to thousands of women found it was associated with 20% reductions in extremely preterm births and infant deaths.🔗https://buff.ly/ZLzFtWC

Where people live during adolescence may be linked to their health decades later. A study of 6,410 older U.S. adults found that growing up in states with more liberal policy environments was associated with a lower risk of developing dementia. 🧵

The 2008 financial crisis didn’t affect everyone equally. Black Americans experienced more economic hardship than White Americans, including greater difficulty paying bills. A new study examined whether these unequal experiences were also linked to differences in health. 🧵

Most research on male birth control asks men about products they’ve never used. A new study interviewed 30 US men who have actually used hormonal male contraceptives in clinical trials. What motivated them? 🧵

#SuicidePreventionMonth asks Americans to talk more openly about a leading cause of death. That conversation is being reshaped by @kzivin.bsky.social, Lisa Wexler, and Briana Mezuk, whose new approaches look beyond the numbers, into the contexts and lived experiences behind them. myumi.ch/Ax4Vx

New Approaches, New Understanding: U-M Researchers Rethink How We Prevent Suicide

September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month; University of Michigan researchers are using new methods that go beyond the numbers to shape understanding and prevention.Every September, Suicide P...

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Children from lower-income families faced more violence and other hardships. But only violence was linked to PTSD symptoms and a stronger brain response to fearful faces. The findings suggest different hardships may call for different kinds of support. 🔗 buff.ly/mLEOGHV

Exposure to Violence as an Environmental Pathway Linking Low Socioeconomic Status with Altered Neural Processing of Threat and Adolescent Psychopathology

Low childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with increased risk for psychopathology, because in part of heightened exposure to environmental adversity. Adverse experiences can be…

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Paying hospitals more for postpartum long-acting birth control was meant to widen access for low-income moms. New research on 5 states finds use rose modestly—but stayed concentrated at urban teaching hospitals. Rural hospitals, and Catholic-affiliated ones, largely didn't offer it.📑 buff.ly/LM74t4n

Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use Following State-Specific Changes in Hospital Medicaid Reimbursement

Are Medicaid policies that reimburse hospitals for immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) associated with increased provision of this service? In this cross-sectional study…

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How does discrimination “get under the skin”? A study of 154 adults links it to brain-gut changes that vary by race and ethnicity: inflammatory markers among Black and Hispanic adults, anxiety among White adults, and possible diet-related responses among Asian adults. 🔗 buff.ly/Q5YtXlp

More than 1 in 10 adults ages 55+ have outlived all their parents and siblings—a share that rises to over 1 in 4 among those 75+. Losing one’s entire family of origin is linked to worse health and higher mortality, yet researchers say it remains an understudied risk. 🔗 buff.ly/COfy71Q

Teens' sexual behaviors and identities are changing. More US high schoolers—girls and boys—are having sex with someone of the same sex starting as young as 14. More teens are also identifying as bisexual. Researchers say sex ed and STI prevention must start earlier and adapt.🔗https://buff.ly/iEVN1Bz

New research finds older adults felt less lonely after pleasant time with family and friends—but mostly after good sleep. Interactions with neighbors and acquaintances helped regardless of sleep, perhaps because they require less emotional energy.🔗https://buff.ly/oMUwk5U

During COVID, adult children became parents' safety net. Parents facing economic hardship were much more likely to get money from their kids than before the pandemic — and hands-on help with groceries and errands surged when food access got hard. New nationally representative study 📑 buff.ly/pxiVe4g

New research finds US kids lacking trusted tap water and facing food insecurity drink the most sugary beverages — 15% more likely than kids with secure water and food. Researchers point to water bill help and keeping water running as ways to help. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35872245/ @pop.psu.edu

About 1 in 5 reproductive-age women in the US report a disability. New research finds they're significantly more likely than non-disabled women to have stopped a birth control method due to dissatisfaction — and more likely to want to switch methods, cost aside.

New research finds that closely spaced births do not explain the link between maternal childhood abuse and a child’s risk of an abuse or neglect investigation. Both independently raise risk, highlighting opportunities for access to family planning and trauma-informed support.🔗https://buff.ly/k1MDrNp

Understanding the Relation between Short Birth Spacing and Child Maltreatment: Are Associations Due to Parental History of Childhood Abuse and Neglect? - PubMed

Existing literature documents connections between short birth spacing (birth-to-conception interval of under 18 months) and the risk of child maltreatment, but explanations for this relation are…

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Do sugary-drink warning labels have to shame people to work? New @uncpopcenter.bsky.social research says no. Simple labels like "High in Added Sugar" were just as effective as scarier obesity warnings — without being rated as stigmatizing at all. 🔗 buff.ly/goY5zdX @uncpopcenter.bsky.social

Front-of-Package Food Labels and Perceived Weight Stigmatization: A Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT06179043.

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Medicare's 2019 nursing home payment reform was linked to a nearly 24% drop in daily therapy time for residents — steepest at for-profit and rural facilities. New research finds physical and occupational therapy still hadn't fully recovered years later. 👉️ buff.ly/NK0oKNe @uwrehabmed.bsky.social

Reductions in Therapy Provision in Skilled Nursing Facilities After Medicare Payment Reform and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis - PubMed

Even when accounting for changing patient characteristics over time, PDPM implementation was associated with substantial declines in therapy provision, particularly in for-profit and rural SNFs.…

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In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) mapped US neighborhoods by lending risk — marking Black and immigrant areas "hazardous" and white areas "best." A new study tracked the actual people who grew up in and around those areas.

In 2021, Texas passed one of the strictest abortion laws in the country (SB8), banning abortion once cardiac activity is detected — as early as 6 weeks. New research looks at what actually happened to abortion access once it took effect.

"How U-M built the world's map of aging" -- ICYMI, the University of Michigan OVPR recently spotlighted the Health and Retirement Study, the longitudinal study and "public laboratory" that aims to provide any data a researcher would want to understand aging in the United States: myumi.ch/2jr9b

The study that keeps listening: how U-M built the world's map of aging

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UTIs are common and easily treated. Still, 59% of young women say fear of "hearing bad news" would keep them from care—more than cost or long appointment waits. Researchers link it to the stigma around urinary and sexual symptoms. @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/7lTSmvK