Israel Tackles Conservation

MINING: EPA Tackles Fracking

Nigeria Tackles Advance Fee Fraud

Roger Nicoll Tackles Learning/Disabilities

Roger Nicoll was doubly honored by the Society for Neuroscience this year. He was awarded the Ralph W.

Dangerous connections: healthcare community tackles tubing risks.

In a heart-wrenching article last year, The New York Times called public attention to a patient safety risk that has festered for years: tubing misconnections. The front-page story chroni-cled the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter for a mistake that never should have happened. Hospitalized for complications to her pregnancy, the woman's feeding tube was mistakenly coupled with a...

Network of cities tackles age-old problems.

The world’s population of people aged over 60 will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050. Even more dramatic will be the growth in the number of the very old. Between 1950 and 2050, the number of people over the age of 80 will grow from 14 million to 400 million worldwide. At the same time, the pace of urbanization continues unabated: by 2030 an estimated three in five people will be urban dwe...