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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 review and make recommendations on all policies and regulations for UNL parking facilities to the vi...

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, […] A man receives a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Belgrade on Ja...

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 supported in the hospitals where they were struggling to treat patients. From the Special Series: The ...