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Despite common assumptions, new research suggests that women are not more likely to be sexually harassed when they are the minority or majority in a work group. Instead, researchers found that in most cases, women were sexually harassed at work when their work group had a similar proportion of males and females.

An editorial published in this week's Lancet is highly optimistic regarding President-elect Obama's ability to influence real change in health care policy - one of the United States' most divisive political issues. "Health system strengthening must be a top priority for the new administration if 46 million uninsured US residents are to have access to health care," say the writers of the editorial.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University have been awarded almost $10 million to study the many ways cocaine use during pregnancy can negatively affect interactions between mothers and their infants. The project's researchers hope their findings will aid the development of new intervention strategies for helping both mothers and children, and prove valuable to others working in fields such as drug abuse and developmental disorders.