Author: Michelle Korhonen
It’s not uncommon to see comfort dogs coming to visit patients at hospitals and nursing homes but now a new animal is making the rounds at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic — meet Munchkin, the miniature horse. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: These days, it’s not unusual to see a therapy dog in a hospital, nursing home or even a courthouse to help people experiencing illness or trauma find some comfort. Well, there’s a different four-legged friend wandering the halls of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, which recently held a dog and pony show to introduce the latest addition to their animal team. Minnesota…
At the busy county hospital where I did my medical residency, we cared for patients with every imaginable problem. But one part of treatment was always the same: As soon as it was deemed medically safe, a physical or occupational therapist would visit each and every patient. In the intensive-care unit, a physical therapist might assist a patient into a sitting position at the edge of the bed. An occupational therapist might help her relearn how to hold a fork after weeks of being fed by a tube. On the general-medical and surgical wards, at least one or two patients…
An electric-car charger in outback Australia has sparked outrage after footage emerged showing it was powered by a diesel generator.The NRMA electric-car charging site is located in Erldunda, a pastoral lease that operates a cattle station 200km south of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. However, footage of the electric port being run by a diesel generator was shared to Instagram last week alongside the caption ‘make it make sense’. ‘Look, it’s an electric charger for an electric car – and right there, that is a diesel-powered generator, to run your electric charging point for your car,’ the man filming can be heard saying. ‘That…
Shortages of drugs ranging from life-saving chemotherapies to basic generics are straining the health care system. Hospitals are adapting to chronic interruptions in the supply of medicines. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Shortages of drugs, ranging from lifesaving chemotherapies to basic generics, plague the health care system. NPR’s Sydney Lupkin reports on how hospitals are adapting to chronic interruptions in the supply of key medicines.SYDNEY LUPKIN, BYLINE: Jason Chow (ph) is a pharmacist. He didn’t major in international relations. But a few days after the Hamas attack threw the Middle East into chaos, he and his colleagues at Ochsner Health in…
Elon Musk has owned Twitter for a year now. In that time, he has slashed the company’s value and rendered it unrecognizable to many users. Now the platform’s organizing principle is its owner’s whims.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:53 Dizzying WeeksOne year and a week ago, Elon Musk posted a video of himself walking into Twitter headquarters holding a sink. “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” he wrote on the platform. A dizzying series of changes—to Twitter’s structure, value, staff, and name—have unfolded in the 53 weeks since. No one is quite sure what to…
President Joe Biden was heckled by a rabbi protester at a closed Minneapolis fundraiser where he defended his own efforts to tamp down Israel as it wages war on Gaza.‘As a rabbi I need you to call for a ceasefire right now,’ yelled Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, whose website calls her a ‘Reconstructionist’ rabbi. She interrupted Biden as he was speaking about the origins of his campaign and the ‘antisemitic bile’ at a right wing march in Charlottesville. After the interruption, the rabbi was removed from the room where Biden was addressing about 200 donors inside a warehouse event space.‘I think…
As the holiday season approaches, it’s easy to get caught up in the festivities and put our fitness goals on the back burner. But what if we told you that you can have your peppermint mocha while sleighing the Holidays? Introducing our Holiday Survival Challenge! What is the Holiday Survival Challenge? HSC is a 21-day cardio challenge that kicks off on November 13th. This challenge is all about maintaining your health and fitness journey while embracing the joy and festivities of the holiday season. What to expect when you join HSC: How to Access Your Workouts: All your daily workouts will be…
Nearly a billion dollars went to trying to boost domestic manufacturing of PPE like masks and gloves. Experts say the effort is foundering and the nation isn’t better off than it was three years ago.
What if this war should end, as it must, not by a cease-fire or a truce, like other wars with Hamas, but with a comprehensive resolution to the 100-year-old conflict between the Palestinian and Israeli people?To imagine anything good coming out of such a destructive war is not easy, especially for those of us witnessing its cruel prosecution from Ramallah, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. And yet, as bad as things are, I feel compelled to resist giving in to despair. I may be clutching at straws, but I feel a moral responsibility to seek any grounds for hope.One hopeful…
A Brooklyn man suspected of shooting dead his neighbors over a noise complaint has been shot by police after a standoff, police said.Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and his stepson Chinwai Mode, 27, were gunned down on Sunday following a reported noise complaint with a neighbor who they’d been warring with for four years. Their neighbor and suspected gunman Jason Pass, 47, went on the run after the shooting.He was shot by police after a standoff on Wednesday morning and taken to hospital after being shot; his condition is unknown. Police said Pass barricaded himself inside a home in Bath Beach when the NYPD and…