A clinical trial found that after spending time with a dog, young patients reported a larger decrease in their anxiety.

The patients’ parents also perceived significantly reduced anxiety in their kids.

Managing kids’ anxiety and pain while receiving emergency medical care is a key part of the treatment plan.

Johns Hopkins University lays off more than 2,000 workers across the globe after losing $800 million in federal grants.

Among the programs targeted were a $50 million project to treat HIV while experimenting with machine learning in India and a $200 million grant to treat one of the world’s most deadly diseases in thousands of children.

"This is a difficult day for our entire community," the university says.

12 Hopkins staff on his team in Baltimore lost their jobs Thursday , many of whom worked as administrators, technicians and pharmacists.

SMART4TB was a $200 million investment trying to combat the spread of deadly tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, a preventable and curable disease, killed 1.25 million people in 2023 , according to WHO .

Dr. Rochelle Walensky calls for stronger, nationwide guidance on infant measles vaccine doses for measles prevention.

CDC currently recommends people receive two vaccine doses, the first at ages 12 to 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years old .

Texas health officials have also recommended early vaccination for infants living in outbreak areas.

Barbershops and salons are regarded in the Black community as safe, sacred spaces.

When those refuges are violated by gun violence, an unspoken bond is broken.

A 2020 study found that exposure to gun killings was linked to higher levels of depression, suicidal ideation.

In 2024 , there were about 20 shootings in the police district that includes Four Corners , five of them fatal.

Most of the victims were Black men, according to a KFF Health News analysis of Boston Police Department data.

Recovering from the trauma of witnessing gun violence is often more difficult for onlookers when they still live and work where the shootings happened.

IBM 's Christina Shim discussed the importance of communicating a sustainable project's business value.

"As long as the outcomes are the same, you just need to make sure that you're communicating in an appropriate way with the right stakeholder," she said.

A report from the Global Infrastructure Hub put the average project preparation time at 6 years but said it can take 14 years if the project is not planned properly.

The Loess plateau is an area spanning more than 245,000 sq miles across three provinces and parts of four others.

By 2016 , China had converted more than 11,500 sq miles of rain-fed cropland to forest or grassland a 25% increase in vegetative cover in a decade .

The climate around the Loess plateau is changing, which means what existed, or even thrived, several decades ago can’t necessarily be put back, says Bridgewater .

Bridgewater: “Given the speed of climate change, we need to be thinking about what we want. What we want out of our ecosystems are actually services.”.

Canada has lost 70 per cent of its ponds, bogs, swamps, salt marshes, estuaries and other wetlands in southern areas where most people live.

Eric Cleland : Wetlands clean water by filtering out sediments, excess nutrients, pesticides, fertilizers and heavy metals.

They also help regulate water runoff throughout the year , storing water during high precipitation periods and releasing it during drought and dry periods.

Addenbrooke's hospital has extended a temporary helpline for families concerned about their care.

The hospital suspended an orthopaedic surgeon after an external review into the surgeon.

Nine operations performed on children had fallen below the expected standard.

The children's outcomes were not life-threatening but their mobility had been affected.

The raucous spring festival sees Hindus take part in a kaleidoscopic celebration of the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil.

Holi has its origins in Hindu mythology and lore and celebrates the divine love between the Hindu god Krishna and his consort Radha .

The festival is a national holiday in India , while in Nepal it's a two-day event that began Thursday .

The Education Department laid off more than 1,300 employees across its divisions this week .

The department’s staff is being cut nearly in half .

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general sued the Education Department in federal court.

The agency's workforce in the Office for Civil Rights was cut by half , or possibly more.

Conservatives who support closing the Education Department see the cuts as a step toward that larger goal.

It's unclear how the agency will be able to function or produce its most important work, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress , or NAEP .

Administration officials have promised the NAEP test, also known as the Nation’s Report Card , would not be touched, but that seems impossible.

People can still turn to the companies that service their loans for help, but there will be no one to ensure those contractors do their job.

There are also fewer people at the department to handle changes to the loan portfolio, which could be disastrous when a Biden -era program ends and students are required to resume making loan payments.