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Newswise: Cal State Fullerton Educator's Research Reveals the LGBTQ+ Teacher Experience as Extremist Groups Target K-12 Classrooms
Released: 13-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
Cal State Fullerton Educator's Research Reveals the LGBTQ+ Teacher Experience as Extremist Groups Target K-12 Classrooms
California State University, Fullerton

Research by William Toledo, assistant professor of secondary education at Cal State Fullerton, revealed several ways K-12 classrooms can lack inclusion and how LGBTQ+ teachers can add support for students' success and well-being in the classroom

11-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
Medicare doesn’t cover obesity drugs, but 76% of older adults think it should
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

The vast majority of older adults – 83% -- think health insurers should cover medications that can help people with obesity manage their weight, a new poll of people age 50 to 80 finds. Nearly as many -- 76% -- believe Medicare should cover these drugs, which it cannot currently do under law.

Released: 11-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
ASA Endorses New Legislation to Fully Avert Medicare Payment Cuts
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) strongly endorses H.R. 6683, legislation that would block a more than 3% Medicare payment cut scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024. ASA supports the immediate passage of this legislation this year or early 2024, prior to full implementation of these destructive cuts.

Released: 8-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Biases in large image-text AI model favor wealthier, Western perspectives
University of Michigan

In a study evaluating the bias in OpenAI's CLIP, a model that pairs text and images and operates behind the scenes in the popular DALL-E image generator, University of Michigan researchers found that CLIP performs poorly on images that portray low-income and non-Western lifestyles.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 5:05 PM EST
WIC participation helped families better cope with 2022 infant formula shortage
Washington State University

Families that participated in the WIC program—also known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children—were much less likely to use potentially unsafe infant feeding practices during the 2022 U.S. infant formula shortage than income-eligible families that did not participate.

   


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