Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild
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Cultured Lab Meat May Make Climate Change WorseFebruary 19, 2019 |
Researchers are looking for alternatives to traditional meat because farming animals is helping to drive up global temperatures. However, meat grown in the lab may make matters worse in some circumstances. Researchers say it depends on how the energy to make the lab meat is produced
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As of Jan. 1, in the name of transparency, the Trump admin required that all hospitals post their list prices online. But what is popping up on medical center websites is a dog’s breakfast of medical codes, abbreviations and dollar signs — in little discernible order — that may initially serve to confuse more than illuminate
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More Than 60 Prescription Drugs Are Getting into River FoodchainsNovember 6, 2018 |
Over 60 common pharmaceuticals have been found in river-dwelling wildlife in Australia, highlighting the need for better wastewater treatment strategies
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Does Climate Change Mean I Can’t Have Kids?August 30, 2018 |
Jessie Szalay writes, “Like a growing number of potential parents, I’m questioning the ethics of bringing children into a warming world.” Travis Rieder — with the Berman Institute and author of Toward a Small Family Ethic — discusses these dilemmas throughout the US, and has found young audiences open to the issue
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Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak Is Hitting Health Care Workers HardAugust 17, 2018 |
“There’s an extremely low level of knowledge and awareness about Ebola in the area,” Peter Salama says. “Early on, the health care workers took no precautions whatsoever, and unfortunately, we’re expecting more confirmed cases from that group.”
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Nurses Play Vital Roles in Health CareJune 13, 2018 |
Why are they invisible in the media? Nurses have made vital contributions to health and health care for generations and are essential players today. Nurses outnumber doctors by almost 3 to 1. So why are nurses missing in action when it comes to health news stories?
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Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking past a drug deal on your block or a beating at your school. For kids living in picket-fence suburbia, these experiences might be rare. But for their peers in urban poverty, they are all too commonplace
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