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Housing associations can be 'change-makers' for UK communities, says report

Housing associations are being urged to step out of their traditional role to deliver change in deprived areas and help people into work or entrepreneurship.

Social Sciences

Unveiling the impact of job loss on the health of immigrants in Germany

A recent study by Silvia Loi and colleagues examines how life events like job loss and divorce affect the health of immigrants using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. They find that immigrants experience more rapid ...

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Moving beyond race-based drugs

Prescribing certain medications on the basis of a patient's race has long come under fire from those uneasy with using race as a surrogate for biology when treating disease.