Misti Crane

Women who deliver babies at Catholic hospitals are about half as likely to have undergone a sterilization procedure to prevent unwanted pregnancies after the birth as those who delivered elsewhere, a new study has found. 

A condom designed to increase sexual pleasure has the potential to increase protected sex and decrease sexually transmitted infections, a new study suggests. 

The new condom, called CSD500 and not currently available in the United States, includes a gel designed to enhance erection firmness, size and duration. 

Black Americans who were initially hesitant about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine were more likely than whites to warm up to the idea as the pandemic wore on and to view vaccines as necessary for protection, a new study has found.

The research highlights the importance of not making assumptions about race-based viewpoints regarding health care, and illustrates the likelihood that access — not just distrust or skepticism — is a significant obstacle to higher levels of COVID-19 protection among Black Americans, the study authors said.

Ruth Ella Moore ’26 BS, ’27 MA, ’33 PhD

Born: May 19, 1903

Died: July 19, 1994 

Aram Dobalian has been named the next chair of the College of Public Health’s Division of Health Services Management and Policy, effective Jan. 1. He will also serve in a new leadership position, associate dean of academic affairs, where he will help to develop and manage a portion of the college’s academic portfolio, including engaging in related accreditation assessment activities.

Dobalian comes to Ohio State from the University of Memphis, where he serves as professor and director of the Division of Health Systems Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. 

Tobacco control expert Micah Berman, associate professor in the College of Public Health and Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, was honored with the American Public Health Association’s annual David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health for his commitment to science-based prevention of tobacco-related illness and death.

A new study comparing adolescent suicide rates with the availability of mental health services has found that more resources may contribute to fewer suicides, but don’t appear to have any role in reducing suicides involving firearms. 

As typical social and academic interaction screeched to a halt last year, many young people began experiencing declines in mental health, a problem that appeared to be worse for those whose connections to family and friends weren’t as tight, a new study has found. 

An estimated one in seven Ohio women of adult, reproductive age has visited a crisis pregnancy center, a new study has found.

In a survey of 2,529 women, almost 14% said they’d ever attended a center. The prevalence was more than twice as high among Black women and 1.6 times as high among those in the lowest socioeconomic group, found a research team from The Ohio State University. Their study appears in the journal Contraception.