Health Care Is Long Overdue for a Social Justice Reckoning
With protesters in many American cities marching for justice, and with the Supreme Court delivering a historic ruling protecting gay
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The online battle for the mental health of service workers
Morgan Eckroth became famous on TikTok as morgandrinkscoffee. A 21-year-old barista and social-media manager for Tried & True Coffee in
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A new Rx: AI for operations in health care
This content was produced by Insights, the custom content arm of MIT Technology Review. It was not written by MIT
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Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious
As physicians from three distinct racial minorities, our lives are defined by an innate tension. On one hand, we experience
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Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus is Airborne–but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up
In Lidia Morawska’s home city of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, roadside signs broadcast a simple message: ‘Wash hands, save
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Health Care Workers Don’t Want to Be Heroes
At no point in my life have I felt less heroic than the last five months. And yet, on or
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Small Numbers Can Have Huge Impacts on Climate and Health
Quantifying things is an overarching goal in science, but recent events have left me pondering just why that is. After
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Air, Sea and Space: Ocean Health, Atmosphere Insights and Black Holes
This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on June 20, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. Three segments in this episode. We’ll
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UCLA players demand third-party oversight for health, safety administration
The UCLA Bruins have come together to demand their health and safety is protected as they approach a return to
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Coronavirus: Health minister says app should roll out by winter
A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is “not a priority” and he was not sure it
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