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WHAM! Doctor Tries Comic Book To Boost Trauma Drug
Sometimes the real trick for improving health is getting people, including doctors, to hear the right message and then do something about it. So what’s the best way to get the word out about a decades-old generic drug that could save the lives of critically injured patients? You make a comic book.
How diabetes swept the nation. Click through for interactive map.
The scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court early Thursday morning. The wait for a decision on the administration’s health care law is almost over.
Official NPR.org ant farm.
NPR receives National Science Board’s Public Service Award.
“The National Science Board (NSB) announced today that National Public Radio (NPR) Science Desk, a dedicated group of reporters, editors and producers who are committed to deep, thoughtful and engaging coverage of science news, is the recipient of its 2012 Public Service Award.”
How Your Brain Is Like Manhattan:
It turns out your brain is organized even if you’re not.
At least that’s the conclusion of a study in Science that looked at the network of fibers that carry signals from one part of the brain to another.
Researchers used cutting-edge imaging technology to look at places where these fibers intersect. And they found a remarkably organized three-dimensional grid, says Van Wedeen of Harvard Medical School, the study’s lead author.
The grid is a bit like Manhattan, Wedeen says, “with streets running in two dimensions and then the elevators in the buildings in the third dimension.”
NPR as crowd control:
“For Jackson police officers who work the third shift on Saturday night, one moment is almost always expected — clearing out the nightclub parking lots as quickly and with as little trouble as possible. In Heritage Square — which is home to The Mix Factory, The Drink and Cody’s and close to The Furtle Turtle — officers in at least half a dozen patrol cars fire up their engines, turn on their lights and sirens and begin ushering every club-goer’s car out of the area.
Tommy Ferguson is one of the officers who slowly inches his way across the parking lot, making sure no one loiters. Loitering after a night of clubbing can lead to problems, he said. As incentive to get people to move out faster, Ferguson turns on NPR and plays it through his loud speaker.”
Source: The Jackson Sun
Am I ever glad it did!
The Internet is coming!
Our very own Pam Fessler found this memo from waaaay back in the day while she was moving desks.#nprlife (Sam Sanders/NPR)
NPR science correspondent Richard Harris:
There’s an old joke around newsrooms: News is something that happens to your editor.
If you’ll pardon the self-indulgence, I’m going to take this truism one step further: News is what happened to me.
I was laid low the week before New Year’s Day by a mysterious headache and a blazing sore throat. A few days later I lost my voice.
