Health

 Study Finds -  A 70-year British study found that adults who repeatedly faced financial hardship scored lower on memory and processing-speed tests by age 53, years before most people worry about cognitive decline. Decades later, brain scans showed those with a history of persistent low income had larger fluid-filled spaces in the brain, a sign of tissue shrinkage.

Men, people from working-class or lower-income childhoods, and carriers of the APOE-e4 Alzheimer's risk gene showed stronger brain changes, though these subgroup findings are still preliminary.The study only shows a link, not proof of cause, but researchers say chronic financial hardship may be a modifiable factor worth addressing for long-term brain health. 

NPR - Nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the U.S., yet only about one in eight nurses are men. The low number is still double what it was a couple of decades ago. As opportunities in traditionally male-dominated fields like manufacturing and software engineering decline, schools like the University of Alabama at Birmingham have made efforts to recruit men into nursing, a career that has emerged as a stable alternative and a reliable pathway to achieving a middle-class lifestyle.