In a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Marisha Burden, MD, MBA, and Liselotte Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, introduce evidence-based work design, a unique approach that confronts the growing divide between frontline clinicians and administrative leaders in health care.

The rapid digitisation of essential services in the UK is deepening inequalities for minoritized ethnic communities, a major three-year research project has found. 

Without careful design, online services risk excluding those already facing digital exclusion, language barriers and systemic discrimination, according to the Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online (PRIME) study, which publishes a series of policy briefs, a Code of Practice and videos in multiple languages alongside a suite of free-to-use technological tools - today.

A new dataset, published on LawAtlas.org, includes state laws from 1849 through 2021 that regulate minors’ legal capacity to independently consent to several specific categories of care, including HIV prevention and treatment and sexually transmitted infection prevention and treatment, and the minors’ legal right to keep information about their receipt of these services confidential from their parents or guardians.