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By Bobby Allyn Thursday, December 28, 2023 • 1:34 PM EST Imagine taking a Bird scooter to Rite Aid before heading to a WeWork, where you read a news article on Vice and then buying a gift on Bed Bath & Beyond’s website. What is this, 2018? No, this is 2023, and you’ve just interacted …

Earlier this year, the National Academies reported that more than 20 percent of all donated organs are wasted, despite the fact that “on average, 17 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant.” The major cause of this waste was a lack of available surgeons to perform surgery at the time needed to …

What if there was a matchmaking platform, akin to Tinder or Bumble, but instead of singles swiping right for a chance at romance, plant-based food developers were matched with optimized, high-quality ingredients? At food-technology company Equinom, this isn’t an unrealized dream of the future—it’s the company’s current day-to-day reality.   Founded in 2012 by Gil Shalev, …

Muscat:- Omantel, the leading telecom operator in the Sultanate of Oman, hosted yesterday, Wednesday May 25th, its 3rd webinar to discuss 5G technology, its potential, and its impacts on customers and consumers. The company, which was the first to introduce 5G technology in the Sultanate, is organizing a series of webinars to focus on this …

Despite significant evidence that a diverse, representative health care workforce is pivotal to improving health care access and outcomes, limited progress has been made to increase the number of Black and Latino/x doctors and nurses and to retain them in the workforce. CHCF commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct a national study of health care …

Mike Mozur  |  Guest columnist Here we are, celebrating another Earth Day, with festivities, volunteer actions and so much else going on to confirm the importance of our duty to preserve the planet for our children and posterity. For the many city, county, state and federal environmental employees, and for so many volunteers and umbrella …

Earlier this month, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) hosted a Health of the Planet Showcase. The event was the culmination of a four-year long community initiative to focus on what the mechanical engineering community at MIT can do to solve some of the biggest challenges the planet faces on a local and global scale. …

On Feb. 28, 2007, The Washington Post reported a tragedy: “Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.” Deamonte’s death was a wake-up call …

MEADVILLE, Pa., June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — “Breaking Free: My Purpose Is Waiting On Me”: an inspiring challenge. “Breaking Free: My Purpose Is Waiting On Me” is the creation of published author, Nichica F. Melton, is a loving wife, mother, and determined entrepreneur. Melton shares, “Have you ever wondered why when you take one step …

“I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said Thursday. “I think what’s going to happen is you’re going to see that as we enter the summer months, numbers are going to go down, people will think great, we’re good.” …