One of the most standard ways to measure the country’s hospital crisis is to count closures, but one hospital finance expert thinks that isn’t necessarily the right number to watch. “If you just look ...

Most people recognize the value of staying active, even if the way they exercise looks very different from someone else’s. For some, that means heading to the pickleball court after work. For others, ...

For years, women were told to train differently because of their hormones. New research suggests the fundamentals of building ...

The city of San Diego’s ballot measure to tax empty second homes failed by about a 7-point margin, according to the unofficial results from the June 2 primary election. While supporters characterized ...

The Bonn climate change conference offers an opportunity to shift international climate finance toward measuring outcomes instead of installed capacity. Every few months, a new record is announced.

Sometimes resistance is attending a protest, and sometimes it’s wearing our braids to work in defiance of white, eurocentric beauty standards that are enforced in our workplaces. The federal ...

Despite indications the time was right for voters to approve a Novato Unified School District parcel tax increase, Measure G appears to be going down in flames. The measure, which proposed a ...

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...

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Livestock farms are producing more than they intend to. As well as raising chickens, cows and pigs, these farms are also unwittingly rearing dangerous microorganisms that are resistant to antibiotics.

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a heart attack. The test at the center of that approach measures how much low ...