Halle Young

Halle Young is a bay area-based writer and Medical Anthropology Ph.D. student at UCSF-UC Berkeley. She studies stigmatized chronic pain, therapeutics, and pleasure.

Careers

Health care will lead job creation over the next decade. These roles are expected to grow the most.

Health care staff having a standing meeting.

Health

Facing 'critical' staff shortages, nurses in these states work the most hours at long-term care facilities

A nurse holding an elderly man's hand on his cane.

Health

In opioid crisis, race and stigma influence treatment

Collage with hand reaching for methadone dose, hand holding pill, Suboxone strip, and person holding prescription bottle.

Health

Nurses battling burnout are choosing less stressful work environments

A nurse taking care of little boy hospitalized in a bed.

Sports

In the interest of profits, female student-athletes get left behind more than 50 years after Title IX

A split screen showing Caitlin Clark playing for Iowa and Yaxel Lendeborg playing for the UAB BLazers.

Health

10 health care industries with the largest share of retirement-age workers

A younger nurse help secure an older surgeon's mask.

Environment

Could vertical farming change the local food landscape?

Person looking up at shelves in a vertical farm.

Sports

Girls high school sports participation is up from a decade ago, but still lags behind boys

Two basketball players on a basketball court during girls basketball tournament.

Health

Alcohol-induced liver injuries spiked during COVID-19

A young man in a supermarket chooses alcohol in the wine section.

Education

What every state received to support education for youth experiencing homelessness

Closeup of a little girl coloring with a purple pencil.