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Health
The cost of loneliness: Social isolation holds back workers and costs employers billions
Mar 1, 2023
An 'epidemic of loneliness' in recent decades causes stress-related absenteeism, job turnover, and lost productivity.
While the wellness industry booms, the FTC is cracking down on its marketing tactics
Feb 9, 2023
The FTC says health-related claims need to be backed by relevant, peer-reviewed scientific research. "It's long overdue," said one marketer.
Steadily (and quietly), more electric school buses are getting on the road
by
Carrie Jung
Jan 20, 2023
The vehicles have struggled to gain traction, but school districts are being swayed by new funding options, as well as environmental and health concerns.
A $30 million gift to build an addiction treatment center. Then staffers had to run it.
Jan 19, 2023
The money was a one-time gift for infrastructure, but to stay running, the clinic is on its own.
More than half a million health care workers were hired last year. We still need more.
Jan 9, 2023
The recent jobs report shows a marked rise in the number of healthcare jobs added to the economy.
Biotech sector still hot despite cooling economy
Dec 27, 2022
The pandemic led to an explosion of interest in and funding of biotech. That continues even as many sectors slow and recession fears grow.
The free market is failing us on antibiotics
Dec 22, 2022
The free market is pretty simple: There’s supply, there’s demand, they meet somewhere in the middle. If there’s a need, there’s a product. But sometimes, that system breaks down, as it has in the market for antibiotics.
For public good, not for profit.
Can global economic crises result in better international cooperation?
by
David Brancaccio
and Erika Soderstrom
May 17, 2022
Political scientist Ian Bremmer sees big opportunity in crisis.
What do nurses have to say about the nursing shortage?
by
David Brancaccio
and Jarrett Dang
May 16, 2022
"There really is not a staffing shortage per se," said National Nurses United president Deborah Burger. "There's a shortage of nurses willing to put their lives and their license and patients' lives at risk."
There's a lot of money on both sides of the abortion debate. How much does it matter?
by
David Brancaccio
and Rose Conlon
May 9, 2022
When it comes to reproductive rights, political spending doesn't always correlate with policy outcomes.