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Insurance billing notices threaten young adults’ confidentiality

Young adults can remain on their parents’ health insurance policies until they turn 26, but when they use it for counseling, pregnancy tests, addiction treatment or anything else, insurers frequently notify their parents. These routine billing notifications to parents of teens and young adults pose...

AHCA could jeopardize health coverage for young adults, study suggests

As the U.S. Senate takes up the proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA), a large study provides evidence that eliminating the individual mandate could jeopardize health care coverage for young adults. Analysis of insurance data found that without an individual mandate, young adults were more likely...

Welcome Shayna and Katherine, our first two research assistants!

We are excited to welcome two research assistants joining our lab this year, Shayna Mallett as a dry lab RA and Katherine Nguyen as wet lab RA. Shayna graduated as a Computer Science major from Arizona State University and Katherine graduated as a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology major from Mercer...

Jenny Lai successfully defended her thesis! Congrats Dr. Lai!

Jenny successfully defended her dissertation on " Functional genomic dissection of human brain development, degeneration, and dysfunction in pediatric neurogenetic disorders". She was an MD-PhD student in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN). Congratulations to Dr. Lai! We wish you...

Invitation to speak at the 2020 CSH Transposable Elements Meeting

Alice will give an invited talk at the 2020 Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Transposable Elements, which will be held from October 6 to October 10, 2020 in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in Long Island, New York. CSHL is the place where Barbara McClintock did her groundbreaking research on...

Obamacare Cut Out-of-Pocket Costs, But Many Families Still Struggle: Study

High out-of-pocket health care costs for low- and middle-income Americans with kids have fallen due to "Obamacare," but more needs to be done to reduce their medical-related financial struggles, a new study claims. The researchers examined data from 2000 to 2017 on more than 92,000 U.S. families...