The Trump Administration is withholding millions of dollars allocated for family planning services from more than a dozen organizations. Enacted in 1970, the federal family planning program known as Title…
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‘This is About Children’s Lives’: Gavi’s CEO Makes the Case for Funding the Global Vaccine Alliance
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, supplies vaccines to nearly half of the world’s children. For decades, governments, institutions, and private groups around the world have provided the funding it needs to…
Lennar will build 1,500 new Colorado homes with geothermal heat pumps
Ground-source heat pumps, which tap into the stable temperatures found hundreds of feet beneath the Earth’s surface, are a super-efficient way to heat and cool homes . They’re also quite…
11 Questions to Ask on a First Date
You could spend the hours before a date obsessing over your hair, makeup, or outfit. Or you could channel that energy into brainstorming what to ask the stranger you’re splitting…
Pamela Medina-van Berkum: Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations
2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Pamela Medina-van Berkum discusses her paper “Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s…
Platform Shift: From EHRs to UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms) – – Section 2
By VINCE KURAITIS, GIRISH MURALIDHARAN & JODY RANCK This entry is Section 2 of part 3 of 3 in the series Platforming Healthcare — The Long View. This essay is…
Speeding backwards: Greenpeace slams Coalition commitment to neuter vehicle efficiency standards
MELBOURNE, 2 APRIL 2025–Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Coalition’s promise to neuter the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) by removing fines from the scheme as policy that bends the…