Abington Health and Holy Redeemer Health System announced that they intend to join forces in a new regional health system, a move the two systems hope will prepare them for the healthcare industry's uncertain future. Abington, which also owns Lansdale Hospital, and Holy Redeemer have "complementary services and skill sets," said William Aaronson, a healthcare expert at Temple's Fox School of Business. "But any time you merge two organizations, you've got a marriage of cultures. Sometimes, they work out. Sometimes, they don't."

In the latest episode of the Chronicle's "Say Something" audio series, listeners heard from Alyssa Lomuscio, a 2012 Temple graduate who has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder since she was a child. In college, she hid the condition from friends — until she directed a film featuring an obsessive-compulsive protagonist and found herself making an unexpected admission. "I first decided to tell my actor when we were filming a pivotal scene,'" said Lomuscio, who also starred on the fencing team. "In coming out and telling people, it was a release."

Sean Rust, a student at Temple's Beasley School of Law and a participant in the school's new D.C. Summer Program, contributed his second op-ed to Forbes in less than a month — this time tackling immigration reform. Rust made a case for a market-based strategy to distribute work visas. "Essentially," he wrote, "the government would sell legal admission to work in the U.S. and control the supply of legal immigrants by either setting the price or the supply of visas itself."

Temple psychologist Lauren Ellman discussed her research exploring the relationship between maternal conditions in pregnancy and the risk of schizophrenia among offspring. "It is now clear that maternal psychological and biological information is communicated to the fetus…and can greatly influence subsequent development," Ellman said. "Some of our most intriguing results have shown that maternal infections, such as influenza, during pregnancy and immune responses to infection are associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia."