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Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain? December 2, 2021 by Jonathan C. Slaght Life on the coastal plain of Alaska exists on a scale difficult to capture. It’s a wild place where herds of caribou move around wolves and bears in wide arcs, musk oxen graze among dwarf willows, and gyrfalcons […]
It’s Time to Rethink the 12-hour Nursing Shift by Maile Mercer Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the nursing profession was in dire straits. An aging U.S. population was raising the demand for nurses faster than professional schools could supply them, and increasingly, people working in the field were calling it quits, citing burnout and unsafe […]
Opinion Let’s change how we pay for hospitals 2021-11-03 OPINION: Many health facilities were already in fiscal straits before Covid-19 — except in Maryland. The state’s innovative and sound approach could be the answer to rescuing systems nationwide. By John Colmers By Sherry Glied The way the United States typically finances hospitals isn’t working. […]
Government Food Aid Programs Need a Digital Facelift By Mia Jackson America’s hunger problem is worsening. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, more than 35 million people in the country experienced hunger in 2019. In a report published in March 2021, the nonprofit hunger-relief organization Feeding America projected that around 42 million people […]
10 years after the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, I’m still worried OPINION: The cleanup of the past decade at the Japanese power plant could be set back if authorities don’t properly handle a massive stockpile of contaminated water By Ken Buesseler 3.11.2021 Produced by Knowable Magazine , this piece was first published by Newsweek . […]
Opinion 2021-09-27 Building an immune system for the planet could prevent the next pandemic OPINION: We need a global information network that spans borders so we can spot — and stop — new pathogens before they threaten world health By David Bray In 2002, when I was working at the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program […]
Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril By Vishal Khetpal & Nishant Shah Last spring, physicians like us were confused. Covid-19 was just starting its deadly journey around the world, afflicting our patients with severe lung infections, strokes, skin rashes, debilitating fatigue, and numerous other acute and chronic symptoms. Armed with […]
The Social and Environmental Perils of Magical Thinking August 19, 2021 by Louise Fabiani There has been much coverage in recent media of citizens who fail to acknowledge the existence of such global crises as Covid-19 or anthropogenic climate change. They are said to be skeptical or in denial. They refuse to participate in any […]
Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable. August 5, 2021 by Jag Bhalla Did greed just save the day? That’s what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed recently. “The reason we have the vaccine success,” he said in a private call to Conservative members of Parliament, “is because of capitalism, because of greed.” Despite […]
By Editorial Team Florida is a “Stand Your Ground” state, and it was just a matter of time before someone used it against, of all things, an iguana. This, according to news reports, happened on September 2nd of last year when 6′-3″, 165lb PJ Nilaja Patterson, 43, according to the relevant authorities, “savagely beat, tormented, […]