Should Students Carry Naloxone? AMA Members Debate Policy Stance
Should students be allowed to carry naloxone (Narcan)? Is the height of the border wall a health issue? Can connecting formerly incarcerated persons with healthcare stop the revolving door into prisons and jails? These and other questions were debated at the American Medical Association’s (AMA) annual House of Delegates meeting on Saturday. Final policy decisions […]
Opinion | ‘People Will Jump Off a 100-Foot Wall’: What We Heard This Week
“If the wall is 100 feet, people will jump off a 100-foot wall.” — Vishal Bansal, MD, of Scripps Mercy in San Diego, on serious falls at higher border walls that are filling up trauma services. “We need an ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for long COVID, and we shouldn’t settle for anything less.” — Diana Berrent, […]
Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30%
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, centred around the Sustainability Hub — a pre-1970s building on the university campus — and compared […]