Better workplaces for nurses lead to better care for kids

"If you have one in five nurses caring for children giving a poor grade (for their institutions), that's a wake-up call…"

Michele Berger-Penn • futurity
Jan. 9, 2019 ~1 min

U.S. health care spending is way higher than other countries

"It's not that we're getting more; it's that we're paying much more."

Barbara Benham-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Jan. 8, 2019 ~5 min


Watch: Headsets track stress as new nurses learn

A new kind of simulation training for health care providers measures stress, attention, and cognitive load.

Sapna Parikh-NYU • futurity
Dec. 19, 2018 ~1 min

Why doctors say gun violence is ‘their lane’

"As a physician and a researcher, I know that it doesn't have to be this way."

Mollie Rappe-Brown • futurity
Dec. 6, 2018 ~4 min

Study uses rings in teeth to understand the environment Neanderthals faced

By examining the teeth of Neanderthal infants, a team of researchers was able to glean insight into nursing and weaning behavior as well as winter and summer cycles. The study even found evidence that the Neanderthals had been exposed to lead — the earliest such exposure ever recorded in any human ancestor.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Dec. 3, 2018 ~7 min

Study uses rings in teeth to understand the environment Neanderthals faced

By examining the teeth of Neanderthal infants, a team of researchers was able to glean insight into nursing and weaning behavior as well as winter and summer cycles. The study even found evidence that the Neanderthals had been exposed to lead — the earliest such exposure ever recorded in any human ancestor.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Dec. 3, 2018 ~7 min

Pesticide exposure can dramatically impact bees’ social behavior

Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees’ behavior, Harvard researchers showed that, following exposure to a commonly used class of pesticides, bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social than other bees.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Nov. 16, 2018 ~9 min

Pesticide exposure can dramatically impact bees’ social behavior

Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees’ behavior, Harvard researchers showed that, following exposure to a commonly used class of pesticides, bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social than other bees.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Nov. 16, 2018 ~9 min


Information technology in nursing homes bolsters care

Yet federal funds to adopt health information technologies are going to hospitals and ambulatory care, not nursing homes.

Austin Fitzgerald-Missouri • futurity
Oct. 24, 2018 ~4 min

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