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January 12, 2023
Vaping around babies and kids: Is it safe?Care: Scott Frank, associate professor at the School of Medicine, said that while the health effects aren’t entirely clear, people should not vape—that is, use electronic smoking devices—around children. “The full extent of harm from tobacco smoking took…
January 12, 2023
Angela Newman-White to lead First Year Cleveland Crain’s Cleveland Business: Angela Newman-White, incoming executive director of First Year Cleveland, housed within the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed her new role. “Now is the time to empower those…
January 12, 2023
A new discovery puts Panama as the site of the first successful slave rebellionSmithsonian Magazine: Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III discussed new research into what is believed to be the site of the first slave revolt in the New World, upending conventional wisdom about…
January 12, 2023
The dangers of fentanyl misinformation: Why the myth that police are overdosing by touching the drug keeps going Grid: Ryan Marino, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, said the myth about police officers overdosing on fentanyl by simply by touching it overshadows the United States’…
January 12, 2023
Developing devices that work with the brain to reverse paralysis WOSU: Bolu Ajiboye, the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and bioengineer in the Functional Electrical Stimulation Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, discussed how researchers…
January 12, 2023
Suspended judge resigns: I-TeamWJW: Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, weighed in on the resignation of Judge Pinkey Carr, after she was suspended indefinitely by the Ohio Supreme Court. She’d been accused of issuing arrest warrants for people not showing up to court even when they didn’t…
January 12, 2023
Boston’s city worker vaccine mandate tests power of unionsBloomberg Law: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, opined that the power of unions to bargain over workplace health measures is at stake as the Massachusetts high court decides…
January 10, 2023
After pharmacy deals, new opioid sellers in legal ‘bull's-eye'Law360: Andrew Pollis, professor of law, noted that multibillion-dollar settlements with top pharmacy retailers will shift a historic barrage of opioid litigation away from the last of its early targets and toward groups of…
January 10, 2023
Republican Kevin McCarthy loses an 8th vote for Speaker of the House, experts weigh inWKYC: Justin Buchler, associate professor of political science, and Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, joined a panel discussion to talk…
January 10, 2023
What it would cost you to make sure you win the Mega Millions jackpotWOIO: Peter Thomas, professor of mathematics at the College of Arts and Sciences, said the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is one in 302,575,350, meaning there are more than 300 million ticket combinations.