Richard Cash, who died this week, played a major role in developing oral rehydration therapy, which has saved tens of millions of lives https://t.co/bdn4TYUFlo
Thirty years ago I did a series of stories on Toby Quitslund's fight against breast cancer for NPR. Here's an update, put together by the brilliant @Kevin_Kniestedt for @KUOW
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NPR has reposted the story I did for Undark on the need to regulate noise. All good! Though with last week's Supreme Court decision limiting rulemaking by federal agencies, I think it will take a new act of Congress, literally, to get the EPA going. https://t.co/Uwur3xi47M
The Reagan administration defunded an EPA noise control division, leaving us with little federal help in fighting harmful, everyday noise. https://t.co/ZfN55lYNp6
Do you think that taste is limited to the tongue? Do you think that only certain parts of the tongue can recognize specific tastes? Nah! https://t.co/T3Du4sGAIe
@ddiamond@uereinhardt Did a story once on what kind of health care moms of politicians and policymakers got. Uwe was happy to tell me his mother got free A+ care, including several weeks at a wonderful health spa every year. Then he gave that sly smile and said, 'of course, she lives in Germany.'
It's hard to think about now -- everything is hard to think about now -- but once the traumatizing events are over it will be good to think about recovery. I talked to Robert Jay Lifton before the current war started. He has some ideas. https://t.co/4vBnw5YmSU
Brilliant narrative on the meaning and role of dust. Who knew? A fun (and worrisome -- my beloved EV is a culprit) read. @hautepop https://t.co/30mmWqn6Vy
The model for short-term medical missions to foreign countries used to be: fly in, give care, leave. Things were starting to change when COVID ended missions entirely. They're getting going again. How're they doing? https://t.co/7Bn6jiEbwF