Social Sciences
How can organizations get better quality food to more people?
Nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide suffer from food insecurity, or inconsistent access to enough nutritious food.
Feb 14, 2024
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News tagged with supply chain management
Vaccination
Preparing for the next pandemic: Harmonize vaccinations in Canada
To prepare for the next pandemic and provide a coordinated approach to vaccination across the country, Canada should create Canadian Immunization Services based on the Canadian Blood Services model, authors propose in CMAJ ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How COVID-19 vaccines will get from the factory to your local pharmacy
Bahar Aliakbarian is an expert in supply chain management in pharmaceuticals and a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Below, she describes the vaccine supply chains of Pfizer and Moderna, which ...
Dec 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lack of solidarity hampered Europe's coronavirus response, research finds
Competition between European countries for equipment, test kits and medicines needed to tackle COVID-19 may have hampered the region's ability to respond to the pandemic.
Nov 12, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Robot allows clinicians to reuse thousands of masks in the COVID-19 fight
For health care professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, a thin layer of personal protective equipment—gowns, masks, gloves—stands between their ability to help patients and the prospect of becoming ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Surgery
Better planning could save millions in health care costs
Nearly 30% of the $3.6 trillion spent on health care costs in the United States is wasted. New research from Michigan State University and Rutgers University reveals the amount of money washed away in hospital operating rooms, ...
Mar 4, 2020
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Medical research
Uninfected patients key to improving Ebola response
Research on the logistics of responding to Ebola outbreaks has revealed that an often-overlooked, but critical, factor in resource deployment to treat victims of the disease is how many of the people in treatment centers ...
Sep 17, 2019
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Medical economics
Is medicine ready for artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence can help make medicine more efficient and safer. China is a forerunner in this field; we must not miss the boat, says Walter Karlen.
Sep 6, 2018
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Health
How game theory could ensure you will get blood when you need it
Blood shortages in the United States are now at the critical level because of severe weather nationally, coupled with widespread flu. Hundreds of blood drives have been canceled this winter, and the donor base has decreased ...
Feb 9, 2018
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Other
Expanding geographic sharing of donor kidneys would increase transplants, study finds
Broadening the geographic range that a number of deceased-donor kidneys would be available would increase the number of transplants and improve the lives of patients unlikely to receive one based on where they live, according ...
Nov 14, 2017
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