Personal loans for college students: Should you ever consider one?
You may have used federal or private student loans to cover tuition, housing, textbooks, and other higher education expenses. Unfortunately, you may still need additional funds to survive for the remainder of the semester or cover a financial emergency. Credit cards could be an option, but a…#noneloan #noneeligibility #pros #nonefast #nonelower #upstart #koracash #socialsecurity #experian #transunion (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ice cores could reveal future of sea level rise
The helicopter hovered overhead, whipping up snow. Shielding his face, Peter Neff grabbed the dangling cargo load and guided it to the Antarctic ice. The helicopter sped back to the South Korean icebreaker
RV Araon
, 20 kilometers away, to fetch more gear. One trip down, 17 more to go,
thought Neff, a polar glaciologist
at the University of Minnesota (UM) Twin Cities. Time was ticking away on this day in January. In the best-case scenario, Neff and his team would have just 10 days to drill ice cores on Canisteo, a peninsula on the west coast of Antarctica—and a blizzard was already looming.
Ever...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 18, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Glamorous soccer mom, 40, from Delaware has her forehead sewn back together after botched stitches caused flesh-eating infection
In September 2019, Shelley Puchalsky, a PhD student from Delaware, was jogging with her dog on a dirt trail when she tripped over her pet and fell face-first onto gravel. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Musings of an NNLM Intern
During my master’s program at the University of Missouri, I discovered health sciences librarianship through a professional development award given by NNLM Region 3. After that experience, I knew that I wanted to learn more, but I had already exhausted my program’s courses in health and medical librarianship. As a resident of Minnesota, I reached out to Erica Lake of Region 6 to see if there were any internships or projects that I could work on. To my delight, she and her team created a virtual internship that kept me busy this semester.
During my internship, I studied the social determinants of health and how organiza...
Source: The Cornflower - April 18, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog NNLM Internship Source Type: news
Introversion, alexithymia, and hostility: a path analysis from personality to suicidal ideation among university students - Guidotti S, Fiduccia A, Pruneti C.
PURPOSE: The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between state (i.e., hostility) and trait (i.e., social detachment, alexithymia) psychological constructs associated with suicidal ideation among university students. METHODS... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Shame, guilt, and drinking motives as mediators between child maltreatment and problematic alcohol use in college students - Julian K, Allbaugh LJ.
OBJECTIVE: Drinking for emotion regulation may be a concern for college students who have experienced childhood maltreatment, due to high levels of shame and guilt. The present cross-sectional survey study tested how trait shame-proneness, trait guilt-pron... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Social support and psychotherapy outcomes for international students in university/college counseling centers - Robbins KA, Bartholomew TT, Joy EE, Keum BTH, P érez-Rojas AE, Lockard AJ.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between international students' social support at intake and international student distress at end of treatment. Participants: Data was collected from participants (n = 40,085) from 90 United States universities using... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Social support, distress, stress, anxiety, and depression as predictors of suicidal thoughts among selected university students in Bangladesh - Howlader S, Abedin S, Rahman MM.
This study examines the association of perceived social support with suicidal thoughts among a young adult sample of university students and estimates the degree to which perceived stress, distress, anxiety, and depression may explain the association. A cr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Radiologist consultation improves patients' LCS attitudes
Consulting with a radiologist boosts patients' attitudes towards lung cancer screening (LCS) and their interest in quitting smoking, researchers have reported.
A team led by Alex Thomas, a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, found that a short consultation between radiologists and patients -- during which the patient's LCS results were reviewed -- not only improved patients' understanding of the screening exam but also motivated them toward smoking cessation. The results were published April 17 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.
"LCS using LDCT is a powerful tool in the fig...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fines BloomTech for false claims
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in an order on Tuesday that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp previously known as the Lambda School, deceived students about the cost of loans, made false claims about graduates’ hiring rates, and engaged in illegal lending masked…#cfpb #bloomtech #lambdaschool #austenallred #allred #rohitchopra #64000 #gigafund #tandemfund #ycombinator (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CFPB Finds Coding Bootcamp BloomTech Deceived Students About Loans, Jobs
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an order against coding bootcamp BloomTech, also known as the Bloom Institute of Technology, and its CEO, Austen Allred, alleging that they deceived students about the real cost of loans and made false claims about the hiring rates of the…#cfpb #bloomtech #austenallred #allred #rohitchopra #siliconvalley (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Students with disabilities match with residency programs at lower rates
Applicants to U.S. medical residency programs who report a disability match at lower rates than their peers, especially for surgical programs, says a new study. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - April 17, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
University of Michigan Student Receives SBB Research Group Foundation STEM Scholarship
The SBB Research Group Foundation has named Nadxieli Valencia a STEM Scholarship recipient CHICAGO, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The SBB Research Group Foundation named Nadxieli Valencia a recipient of its STEM scholarship. The $2,500 award empowers students to create value for... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT Source Type: news
Columbia leadership's " gross negligence " endangered Jewish students, Foxx says
Columbia University's leadership is guilty of "gross negligence at best" for its failures to respond to allegations of antisemitism on campus, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said Wednesday. The big picture: Two Ivy League university presidents have already resigned following blowback from their…#columbiauniversity #virginiafoxx #islamophobia #israel #claudinegay #lizmagill #mit #sallykornbluth #foxx #jewish (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biden administration releases formal proposal for new student loan forgiveness plan
The Biden administration has published its new student loan forgiveness proposal, putting it on the path to start clearing debt for millions of borrowers this fall. The public has 30 days, through May 17, to comment on the details of the revised aid package. Since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected…#ussupremecourt #educationdepartment #harvard (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
