Jeff Millman

Boston August 4, 2023 0

Living Your Best Life: It Takes a Village

A five-minute walk from the historic On Leong Chinese Merchants Association building in Chinatown brings you to the Biewend building on Tremont Street. Dr. Wei Wang, a geriatrician and primary care physician, sees elderly patients here at Tufts Medicine’s primary care offices. He told Sampan that many elderly people living in Chinatown deal with chronic medical conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. This is true of older adults more generally. In the United States, nearly 95% of […]

Front Page July 22, 2023 0

DANGEROUS WEATHER ACROSS THE U.S.: How We Must Adapt to Survive

A severe weather pattern has been working its way across the United States over the past few weeks with a diversity of effects: heatwaves in the southwest, thunderstorms and tornadoes in the midwest, and thunderstorms and extreme flooding in the northeast. According to meteorologist Alex DaSilva, a dome of high pressure over Texas and an active jet stream pattern across the northern United States have been the driving forces of the extreme weather. Heatwaves are expected to continue to spread […]

Metro June 23, 2023 0

Fears Deepened as Smoke Enveloped US from Canadian Wildfires: How to Protect Ourselves

It was a dark day in New England on May 19, 1780. Sunrise in Vermont was obscured by a thick fog, and the darkness spread to Massachusetts by the late morning. The sunlight disappeared entirely. The sky over the former colonies was soon the color of midnight. Many New Englanders believed the world was ending. Was God punishing the inhabitants of the cradle of the Revolution for their violent disobedience? Was some more general biblical prophecy being fulfilled? The answer […]

Metro June 9, 2023 0

Cambridge Expands Direct-Payment Program for Low-Income Residents

In 2021, the city of Cambridge spent $1.5 million on a guaranteed-income program for low-income residents. 130 eligible households received $500 a month for 18 months, with no requirements for what the money could be spent on. In May 2023, Cambridge announced the program would be expanded. Using $22 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, the city is starting the Rise Up Cambridge program, which will allow hundreds more eligible, low-income households to receive direct cash payments. This […]

Health March 10, 2023 0

WHO Monitors Bird Flu as Human Cases Reported

According to the CDC on March 1, 2023, H5N1 Bird Flu has been detected across the United States: 6,284 wild birds detected, 50 States affected and 968 counties affected. Epidemics can happen anywhere. From the Americas to Africa to Asia, every continent – even Antarctica – has featured an outbreak of infectious disease at some point in history. A more connected world makes it easier for these epidemics to become pandemics, as we have witnessed over the past century. No doubt the […]

Education February 25, 2023 0

The Missing School Children: Massive Learning Setbacks from the Pandemic

The latest signs of the end of the pandemic are upon us. The Biden administration plans to let coronavirus public health emergency provisions expire in May, and individual states are ending various COVID mandates as well. New York is dropping hospital mask mandates and vaccine mandates for city workers, while California has decided against enacting vaccine mandates for schoolchildren and is ending its own state of emergency on February 28. For most Americans, COVID is no longer a top concern. […]

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Front Page February 12, 2023 0

The Death of Tyre Nichols: Consequences Continue for Memphis Police and America

Following the firing and charging of five Memphis police officers for their role in the death of Tyre Nichols last month, a sixth officer involved has also been fired for violating multiple department policies. Internal police investigations are ongoing to determine further culpability in Nichols’ death, which has tragically resumed a national conversation about the relationships between police officers and the communities they work in. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was stopped by the Memphis police on the night of […]

Front Page February 11, 2023 0

Lunar New Year Celebrations Marred by Mass Shootings in California

Late on the eve of Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran shot and killed 11 people and injured 9 others at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio. Just two days later, on the afternoon of January 23, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao shot and killed 7 people and wounded 1 other person at two farms in Half Moon Bay, California. Though they occurred nearly 400 miles from each other, the shootings were strangely similar: both were committed by […]

Health January 7, 2023 0

What Everyone Should Know About Vaccines

Take a look at a timeline graph of polio or measles cases over the past 100 years and you’ll notice a striking trend – right around the mid-20th century, the zig-zagging peaks representing the number of infected persons suddenly crash to zero, and the line from there on out is nearly flat. These moments on the graphs correlate with the introduction of vaccines targeting those particular diseases. Vaccines are up there with the automobile and the computer on lists of […]

Front Page January 6, 2023 0

The Slowdown of Our Global Population: Social, Political, and Economic Anxieties

In November of 2022 the world hit 8 billion people. It only took about 12 years for the population to grow from 7 to 8 billion, matching the rapid growth of the past 50 years, but this may be the last time it grows so quickly. Global population growth is slowing, and the UN estimates that it will take 15 years for another billion humans to be born, then 18 years for the next billion, then a slow 32 years […]

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