Major Law That Would Protect Pumping At Work Is Being Held Up By One Industry
A yearslong effort to expand the rights of women to pump breast milk at work has been held up near the finish line due to opposition from the airline industry, according to a senator involved in the fight. The bipartisan bill ― known as the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, or PUMP […]
What Happens To Your Brain And Body When You Work More Than 40 Hours A Week
Work long enough, and you’ll eventually face the common pressure to work longer hours and get more done. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and new CEO of Twitter, made headlines this week as Twitter managers told some employees to work 12-hour shifts for seven days a week in a sprint to meet Musk’s new […]
Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis Promising for Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
A modified reperfusion protocol for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) seemed to work without causing excessive bleeding in the small randomized CANARY trial. Use of conventional catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) with alteplase led to 4.3% of patients showing right ventricular (RV) recovery at 3 months (in terms of echocardiographic RV/LV ratios >0.9), which was numerically, but not […]
Opinion | ‘An Unreasonable Amount of Work That’s Expected to Be Done’: What We Heard This Week
“There’s kind of an unreasonable amount of work that’s expected to be done.” — Justin Porter, MD, of the University of Chicago, on his simulation study that found primary care doctors would need nearly 27 hours a day to do all the work they’re expected to do. “They think about lack of sexual activity on […]
Food stamp work requirements increase mental health care use: ‘These work requirements harm people with no measurable benefit to the economy’
Being exposed to work requirements in order to receive nutrition benefits from the U.S. government significantly increased mental health care use for depression and anxiety, a new Northwestern University study has found. The policy’s negative effects occurred much sooner for women than men. This is the first study to look at how work requirements associated […]
Opinion | ‘Well Vanilla Didn’t Work; We’ll Try French Vanilla’: What We Heard This Week
“That’s sort of going, ‘Well vanilla didn’t work; we’ll try French vanilla.’” — Gary Sachs, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, on the benefits of adjunctive cariprazine (Vraylar) for patients who have failed on multiple first-line antidepressants. “Here we are, waking up in yet another scenario where we have, in this case, children that […]
Computational sleuthing confirms first 3D quantum spin liquid: Numerical detective work verifies liquidlike magnetic order in prior experiments
Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid. Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms frustrate the natural tendency of electrons to magnetically order themselves in relation to one another. The geometric […]
We Asked Kids To Explain How Germs Work, And The Results Were Adorable
We asked to explain some of tough questions: what the heck are germs and how do they work?
New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures
There’s no safe way to get a close-up view of the human heart as it goes about its work: you can’t just pop it out, take a look, then slot it back in. Scientists have tried different ways to get around this fundamental problem: they’ve hooked up cadaver hearts to machines to make them pump […]
Widespread brain receptor hides surprising mechanism of action
One of the most important molecules in the brain doesn’t work quite the way scientists thought it did, according to new work by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Carnegie Mellon University. The results, published April 20 in Nature, may aid the development of a new generation of more effective […]