The pandemic has exposed flaws in services for people who can’t easily access a drive-through window for Covid shots or testing or can’t read prescription labels.
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Breathing Machine Recall Over Possible Cancer Risk Leaves Millions Scrambling for Substitutes
People with sleep apnea and other ailments who rely on CPAP and more than a dozen devices made by Philips are facing lengthy delays for replacements.
Is Your Heartbeat Off, or Blood Sugar High? On the Road, You Can Keep Track
Travelers with heart conditions, diabetes and epilepsy can check on themselves — even report to their doctors — with new devices and apps.
Buses and Trains Lack Safety Features That Are Standard Elsewhere
How to stop a deadly little problem? Buses and trains should install seatbelts and fix windows, the nation’s top safety board says.
For Disabled Travelers, Technology Helps Smooth the Way. But Not All of It.
How can transportation hubs as well as airplanes, buses, and trains become more accessible? Disabled travelers weigh in on how smartphones and apps help for part of their journey.
The Scoop from Josh: Awash in Unused Medications, With No Good Place to Put Them
Thousands of sites, including pharmacies, hospitals, and clinics, are eligible to serve as drug take-back sites. So why do so few participate?
Should You Worry About Getting Sick From a Plane Flight? Maybe
Doctors say passengers’ biggest health risk may be from fellow travelers. But some diseases can spread if tray tables and bathrooms are not adequately cleaned.
The Scoop from Josh: For Brain Trauma, an Emerging Suite
of Diagnostic Gadgets
A new ecosystem of portable technologies has the potential to enhance our ability to treat and mitigate the effects of head trauma.
Following in the Wake of Oars and Paintbrush
When rowers descend here next weekend for the Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, they’ll be racing in a riverscape brought to life in Eakins’s celebrated rowing paintings.
Galápagos: Islands in
the Balance
Tourism. The Galápagos have dined off it for forty years. Now the people of these islands realize that they have to create a new kind of sustainability or risk killing off the very things the tourists come to see.