Finding the sweet in the bitter
We sometimes think of human trafficking victims as just that: victims. But they can also be victors. That’s certainly true of Donna Lynne Hubbard, honored with a PACT Freedom Award this year for her remarkable work in the antitrafficking field. Her story...
Heart to heart to heart
If hospitals offered friends and family discounts, the Lindberg family would qualify in spades—or make that hearts. Three generations of Lindberg men have received cardiac ablations at Cleveland Clinic, all performed by Oussama Wazni, MD, MBA. As section...
Taking a red pencil to corporate speak
Before becoming a professor at Bucknell’s Freeman College of Management, Kate Suslava worked as an auditor for accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY). It was a job that involved listening to plenty of companies’ quarterly earnings calls. Like her EY...
Pandemic: controlling infectious diseases before they spread
He’s been called Patient Zero, but his real name was Emile Ouamouno. He was two years old, he lived in the Guinean farming village of Meliandou, and he loved listening to his family’s bright red portable radio. Emile died in December 2013, the first...
Going beyond the ChatGPT hype
Recent headlines illustrate the potential and the peril of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that OpenAI released in November 2022. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months and is now cranking out text and cranking up...
What to know about stroke prevention and high blood pressure
Few health problems can change your life in an instant like a stroke can. Fortunately, experts say up to 80% of strokes could be prevented by healthy lifestyle choices. We’ll talk about those choices in a moment, keeping in mind that prevention is only...
European clinical trials and the GDPR
Privacy is paramount in the EU and the UK. And that means you as a trial sponsor must focus on safeguarding the personal data you collect on trial participants as well as vendors and even your own EU- and UK-based employees and on-site staff. Failure to do so...
Do not discard
On an early Wednesday morning at a Costco in Louisville, Kentucky, foods manager Jim Weixler is examining a package of organic apples. His first impulse is to send the fruit to the composting bin, but then he decides that one bad apple doesn’t necessarily...