
Pandemic builds momentum for tackling drug shortages
Last year, as people fighting COVID-19 streamed into hospitals, demand for drugs to treat those patients skyrocketed.
BALTIMORE, MD, April 7, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, announced it has awarded USA Cycling its 2025 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics in elite sports performance. With Project 4:05, USA Cycling transformed race strategy and athlete preparation, enabling the Women’s Team Pursuit to win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A bipartisan push in Congress would return the power to impose tariffs to the legislature.
The threat of a terrorist attack on America’s energy grid is growing, with attempts being reported at increasing rates. If it’s not terrorism, it could be adversarial nation-states. This all increases the likelihood that a significant attack on the grid could succeed, leaving large swaths of the U.S. in the dark.
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Last year, as people fighting COVID-19 streamed into hospitals, demand for drugs to treat those patients skyrocketed.
On the second episode of Medically Necessary, reporter Matt Blois talks to Dr. Hui Zhao, a researcher at Penn State University whose work has focused on pharmaceutical supply chains.
States across the U.S. are reporting little waste of Covid-19 vaccine, in what appears to be evidence that careful handling of doses amid soaring demand is helping get almost every available shot into the arms of Americans.
HAPEVILLE, Ga. - On Dec. 15, 2020, Savannah nurse Maegan Paradee became one of the first Georgians vaccinated against COVID-19.
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