High prices for college textbooks; new medical study on patient intubation; lack of specialized nurses in the Gulf South

There’s a shortage of specialized nurses who play a critical role in providing care to sexual assault survivors. Particularly in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. They are called sexual assault nurse examiners — or SANEs.

As Drew Hawkins reports for the Gulf States Newsroom, one potential solution is to use telemedicine — but it’s currently not available in the Gulf South.

College textbooks are expensive. You might already know this if you’ve been to college, but prices have accelerated just in the last few years. And while tuition hikes and admission practices often create barriers of entry to higher education, sometimes it’s that are prohibitively expensive, as they’re often not covered by scholarships/…

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