Tag: health care
What US medical supply chain can learn from the fashion industry
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University
The shortage of crucial medical supplies, especially personal protective equipment, has crippled the United States’ ability to quell the COVID-19...
How coronavirus contact tracing works in a state Dr. Fauci praised...
Jenny Meredith, University of South Carolina
After weeks of keeping people home to “flatten the curve,” restrictions on U.S. businesses are loosening and the coronavirus...
Americans’ deepening financial stress will make the coronavirus a lot harder...
David Salkever, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Preventing deaths from COVID-19 depends on people who get it seeking treatment – which also allows authorities to...
How much credit should corporations get for the advancement of LGBTQ...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Gay pride parades increasingly include marchers representing corporations, from defense contractor Raytheon to telecommunications conglomerate Comcast. During the most recent Pride...
How the US could afford ‘Medicare for all
Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Health care is Americans’ number-one priority, based on recent polls, so it’s no wonder it’s been a hot topic...
3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better
Peter Hilsenrath, University of the Pacific and David Wyant, Belmont University
Since his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been repeatedly billed as a disrupter....
The votes have been counted, the results are (mostly) in: What’s...
Simon F. Haeder, West Virginia University
Ever since the legislative battle over the passage of the Affordable Care Act, health care has dominated the political...
Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks
Mohammad S. Jalali, MIT Sloan School of Management
Like any large company, a modern hospital has hundreds – even thousands – of workers using countless...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
