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As a part of our initiative called Curious Cornhuskers, an anonymous reader asked The Daily Nebraskan, “Why does parking and transit still give tickets when the parking lots are mostly empty?” Daniel Carpenter, director of Parking and Transit Services for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said in an email that Parking and Transit Services must enforce the rules and regulations even during low parking demand periods.  The department works with the Parking Advisory Committee to ...

With lockdown and the cold weather causing us to be less active, aches and pains are an unwanted side effect – here are the common culprits

Andy Gray COVID-19 has raised public awareness about the role of national medicines regulatory authorities in enabling access to safe, effective and quality-assured medicines. This includes vaccines. In South Africa, the pandemic has also exposed a number of important misperceptions, among the public and health professionals. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority is responsible for monitoring, […] ...

Advocates for medicines that are unregistered in South Africa have accused the regulatory authority of not being proactive in bringing such products to market and approving their use.

Audio: Listen to this article. Available only to In the early weeks of the pandemic, New Yorkers paused every evening at seven o’clock to applaud the city’s frontline healthcare workers. The cheers, honking, and clattering of pots and pans could be heard from windows, fire escapes, and street corners as the city saluted those who repeatedly put themselves at risk for others. But as an August essay in the  New York Times Magazine showed, many of these same frontline workers felt less su...

Ed Secretary quits, HE leaders decry attack on US Capitol The United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has resigned and US higher education leaders have reacted with horror and condemnation to the mob riot on Wednesday 6 January which breached the US Capitol, where Congressmen were meeting to certify the presidential election results, forcing them to run to shelter in fear of their lives. Five people, including one law enforcement officer, died during or as a result of the invasion, as ...

Veronica Main will receive an MBE The New Year’s Honours list revealed earlier this week saw a number of Buckinghamshire residents recognised for their outstanding work in supporting key services and communities. Charity stalwarts, Covid-19 heroes, healthcare champions, a councillor and volunteers were just some of the recipients of these prestigious awards. Among the more unusual efforts being honoured were those of Veronica Main, from Hazlemere, who will receive an MBE for services to...

Pinkerton: Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Shows America’s ‘Can-Do’ Spirit Is Back V is for . . .  In addition to “V” for “Virus,” we can add that “V” stands also for “Vaccine.”  Furthermore, “V” is for “Victory.”  At least in the healthcare sector, America Has Been Made Great Again. One of the architects of that victory is Gen. Gustave Perna, a four-star who took leave from the U.S. Army’s Materiel Command to become chief operating officer of Operation Warp Spee...

email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Hospitals Struggle to Prioritize Vaccine Hospitals are struggling to decide who should receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine first among their workforce, sometimes having to choose certain teams and personnel over others, according to A CDC advisory committee recommended that healthcare workers be among the first recipients of the new...

WaPo Dec 15, 2020 4:20 PM ET In fact, the lightning-fast development of two leading coronavirus vaccines happened both because of and despite Trump — perhaps the most anti-science president in modern history, who has previously flirted with anti-vaccine views and savaged those who cited scientific evidence to press for basic public health measures in response to the pandemic. The lifelong businessman who refused to wear a mask himself was able to understand vaccines as something else entirely...