1
Opinion
States Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave
A crucial measure of success is the actual use of paid leave by those at the bottom and middle of the income ladder.As long as a minimum wage is necessary paid family leave will be necessary.
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Health
You’ve Been Washing Your Hands Wrong
The World Health Organization recommends a six-step, 42.5-second method of cleaning or washing, rather than the C.D.C’s three-step, 35-second method.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asepsis
" A patient who is brought for the procedure is washed and wears a clean gown. The surgical site is washed, possibly shaved, and skin is exposed to a germicide (e.g., an iodine solution such as betadine). In turn, members of the surgical team wash hands and arms with germicidal solution. Operating surgeons and nurses wear sterile gowns and gloves. Hair is covered and a surgical mask is worn. Instruments are sterilized through autoclaving, or, if disposable, are used once."
See also
- Disinfectant (measurements of effectiveness)
- Sterilization (microbiology)
- Antiseptic
- Barrier nursing
- Body substance isolation
- Contamination control
- Cleanliness
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- Transmission-based precautions
All washing is only moderately effective. Glove up if possible.
3
Food
New York Restaurateurs in the Big Easy
Kenton, like Maysville in the Flatiron district, has a bourbon focus.Either one as convenient.
4
The Upshot
Obamacare Seems to Be Reducing People’s Medical Debt
A study builds on earlier evidence that offering the poor health insurance helps them avoid financial shocks.As intended.
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N.Y. / Region
Teenager Sentenced to 14 Years in Chinatown Rape
Eric Pek, 17, was one of three youths who had pleaded guilty to rape, robbery and burglary in the attack in June after they had slipped out of a group home.There are monsters. I wish we could repair them.
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Opinion
Africa’s Climate Stress
An environmental advocate criticizes the World Bank for “doggedly pushing more methane-emitting big dam projects for Africa.”We must remember that the World Bank is a bank.
Banks are concerned with "return on investment".
The World Bank is not a charity.
It is less risk averse than other banks.
It is a development lender.
Big hydroelectric projects do not burn coal.
Concentrated power can support industry.
The only reason for drought in central Africa is deforestation.
The trade winds have not failed.
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Afternoon Update
Cuomo Orders Sleep Apnea Tests for Metro-North and L.I.R.R. Workers
The move, which follows a 2013 derailment, will be required for engineers and conductors with the two commuter railroads.Cuomo is "looking busy".
The annual physicals should be picking up Apnea.
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Health
How Medicare Penalizes Hospitals for Being Too Careful
High rates of infections and other complications are prompting lower payments from Medicare, as well as protests from some elite hospitals.The incentive is perverse.
The objective was to reduce readmits resulting from improper treatment.
The Republican Congress is attempting to destroy Medicare.
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N.Y. / Region
After He Was Beaten, Rikers Inmate Was Sent to ‘the Box’
Jahmal Lightfoot said during the trial of nine correction officers accused of brutally attacking him that his suffering included 110 days of confinement.The trial continues.
10
T Magazine
Mexico City’s Best Cocktail Bars
The densely populated capital has a lot more to offer than just mezcal and Modelo.I don't care. I will not be a patron.
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N.Y. / Region
If Police Stairwell Shooting Was Accidental, Circumstances Around It Were Not
Now that former Officer Peter Liang has avoided prison for fatally shooting Akai Gurley, questions turn to the broken elevator, broken lights and police practice that made the deadly episode possible.As attention should turn.
12
Opinion
Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay
The costs of our tough sentencing laws have come to outweigh the benefits. It is time to reform them.The headline is correct.
The story is not well reasoned.
13
Fashion & Style
Proof & Gauge, a Long Island City Bar, Makes Its Own Gin
The neighborly bar is operated by Chris Murillo, a former corporate lawyer who wanted to open a craft distillery in Queens.It is not hard to do.
http://www.artble.com/imgs/a/c/2/733432/beer_street_and_gin_lane.jpg
14
Sports
Official Is Suspended (Again)
The International Tennis Federation barred Denis Pitner, a Croatian official, for 10 years for working at tournaments without telling organizers he had been suspended from the sport.http://www.boston.com/tag/boston-red-sox
15
U.S.
Panel Would Make Insurers Help Contain Rising Drug Costs
A plan to pare the government share of reimbursement to insurers is part of a package of cost-controlling ideas that will be in a June report to Congress.Let Medicare bargain.
16
Opinion
Who’s Your Daddy?
A Barnard professor writes, “Multiple studies over the last decade have already shown that the misattribution of paternity is rare.”http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/world/europe/archbishop-of-canterbury-father-churchill-private-secretary.html
Usually it makes little difference.
Anonymous sperm donation . . .
17
Opinion
Harvard’s Investments in Fossil Fuels
A group of Harvard professors calls on the university to stop investing in companies that contribute to climate change.I would prefer Harvard rich to Harvard poor.
18
World
Vancouver Prescriptions for Addicts Gain Attention as Heroin and Opioid Use Rises
Treatment known as heroin maintenance has helped keep users out of jail and away from emergency rooms, but concerns about drug abuse stymie such programs in the United States.Addiction is not a moral failure.
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U.S.
Senate Passes Broad Bill to Modernize Energy Infrastructure
The bill, approved 85 to 12, united Republicans and Democrats around a measure to better align the nation’s energy infrastructure with the changing ways that power is produced.We can do better.
Veto this giveaway.
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N.Y. / Region
Prosecutors in Sheldon Silver Case Seek Prison Term of More Than 14 Years
The government said the former Assembly speaker’s sentence should be “greater than any sentence imposed on other New York State legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.”Fix the law.
Let Silver die in prison.
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