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Policy & Ethics

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Sep-2025 20:11 ET (23-Sep-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

E-cigarette and cannabis social media posts and adolescent substance use

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In this survey study of California adolescents, exposure to e-cigarette or cannabis posts was associated with adolescent e-cigarette, cannabis, or dual use. Improvement of social media community guidelines and greater policy attention to co-use and marketing of e-cigarettes and cannabis may help prevent youth substance use.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

National data shows post-pandemic rise in head and shoulder injuries for youth hockey players

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This research highlights emerging injury patterns in youth ice hockey, specifically a rise in serious head and shoulder injuries after the pandemic. Understanding these trends can inform safer equipment standards, improve injury prevention strategies, and guide policy changes to better protect young athletes.

Journal: Injury

Trusted oncology guidelines get a digital makeover: National Comprehensive Cancer Network launches NCCN Guidelines Navigator

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Business Announcement

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)—an alliance of leading cancer centers—announces a new, interactive digital delivery format for the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines).

Is it immoral to be too rich?

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Is excessive wealth immoral? Most people do not think so, but members of societies that are more equal and wealthy than average are more likely to believe it is wrong to have too much money.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

Concerned father, statistician develops software to improve skills therapy

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mark Ramos, assistant research professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, wrote software code that can be used by therapists to verify that children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities are mastering skills at the level needed.

Journal: Behavior Analysis in Practice

Study finds early signs of widespread coastal marsh decline

Colorado State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an early warning and opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the first line of defense against coastal flooding.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

HSE scientists reveal how staying at alma mater can affect early-career researchers

National Research University Higher School of Economics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Many early-career scientists continue their academic careers at the same university where they studied, a practice known as academic inbreeding. A researcher at the HSE Institute of Education analysed the impact of academic inbreeding on publication activity in the natural sciences and mathematics. The study found that the impact is ambiguous and depends on various factors, including the university's geographical location, its financial resources, and the state of the regional academic employment market. A paper with the study findings has been published in Research Policy.

Journal: Research Policy

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