Pennsylvania [US], February 11 (ANI): A new study led by researchers of University Park shows that the descriptions on the front of infant and toddler food packages may not accurately reflect the actual ingredient amounts.
Researchers found that the descriptions on the fronts of infant and toddler food packages may not accurately reflect the actual ingredient amounts.Image:.
Victoria Browning felt trapped.
To support her two young children, she worked full time caring for elderly people, earning $14 an hour. Every week was a struggle.
So she enrolled at Concorde Career College Aurora Campus to get a shot at a better-paying job. Instead, she ended up with thousands of dollars in student debt and a job that paid the same as before.
Several years later, she tried again at the Community College of Aurora. That time, she did land a job with higher pay. But to graduate, she had to figure out how to negotiate inconvenient schedules and overcome barriers that derail many working students.
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Colorado is home to several of the best online degrees in the country, according to a new U.S. News & World report. (Shutterstock)
After months of campus closures and restrictions, the coronavirus pandemic has given new importance to online education and the flexibility it offers current and prospective college students.
While some colleges have temporarily moved online as an alternative to in-person learning amid the pandemic, a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report gives a nod to select schools and degree programs in Colorado that were specifically designed to be earned online.
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BOSTON More than 80% of U.S. physicians reported that people with significant disabilities have worse quality of life than nondisabled people, an attitude that may contribute to health care disparities among people with disability, according to recent research published in the February issue of
Health Affairs. The first-of-its-kind study surveyed 714 practicing physicians from multiple specialties and locations across the country about their attitudes toward patients with disabilities. That physicians have negative attitudes about patients with disability wasn t surprising, says Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, lead author of the paper and a health care policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). But the magnitude of physicians stigmatizing views was very disturbing. For more than 20 years, Iezzoni has studied health care experiences and outcomes of people with disability and is herself disabled by multiple sclerosis diagnosed in 1980, her first year in medica