September 27, 2023
A big obstacle, though, continues to be resistance to vaccination among nurses and aides. Like many facility owners, Avalon Health Care Group, which owns or operates more than a dozen nursing homes in western states, is not mandating staff be vaccinated. Dr. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, Avalon’s chief medical officer, says she tries to address the
READ MOREnew video loaded: Space Capsule Brings NASA’s First Asteroid Samples to Earth transcript Back transcript Space Capsule Brings NASA’s First Asteroid Samples to Earth NASA collected a capsule, which contained materials from the asteroid Bennu, after it landed in the Utah desert, concluding a seven-year mission. “We have confirmed parachute deployment.” “Wow, and after an
READ MORELalitpur, Nepal, on Saturday. Protesters around the world carried signs that conveyed a coordinated message: stop new oil, gas and coal projects. But governments have continued to allow new drilling, citing a variety of reasons. Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press
READ MOREColorful displays from the aurora borealis were visible in parts of the U.S. and Canada on Monday night.
READ MORETens of thousands of people, young and old, filled the streets of Midtown Manhattan under blazing sunshine on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels dangerously heating the Earth. Their ire was sharply directed at President Biden, who arrived in New York Sunday night for several fund-raisers this week and
READ MOREA 1-year-old boy died on Friday and three other children were hospitalized after all four were apparently exposed to an opioid at a state-licensed day care in the Bronx, city officials said. The police said they later found a packaging device typically used by drug dealers there. The New York City medical examiner’s office said
READ MOREnew video loaded: NASA Appoints a U.F.O. Research Director transcript Back transcript NASA Appoints a U.F.O. Research Director NASA said it had hired a director of research to study “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or U.A.P., after a report recommended the agency do more to investigate the topic. The agency did not share the director’s name. “The
READ MOREThe News The grocery chain Kroger said on Friday that it had agreed to pay about $1.2 billion to states, local governments and Native American tribes to settle claims that its retail pharmacies played a role in fueling the opioid crisis. Kroger, which was accused of improperly monitoring prescriptions of highly addictive painkillers filled in
READ MOREnew video loaded: Japan Sends X-Ray Telescope and Moon Lander Into Space transcript Back transcript Japan Sends X-Ray Telescope and Moon Lander Into Space The two different space missions would help astronomers study the cosmos and aid the development of moon landing technologies. Systems are go. Main engine ignition. Solid boosters ignited. We have a
READ MORESource: Guttmacher Institute Note: Data compares January to June 2023 with a six-month period in 2020. Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling from those with
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