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Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: AI and Optimization Model Leads to More Accessible, Equitable Treatment Resource Distribution
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BALTIMORE, MD, October 15, 2024 – The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain populations at a higher risk of opioid overdose.

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The Impact of Weather on the Supply Chain
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The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.

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Trump and Harris Are Courting Workers. Their Minimum Wage Plans Are Muddled.
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The minimum wage is getting lip service on the campaign trail. Well-intentioned plans can backfire, Christopher Tang writes in a guest commentary.

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4 Major Drug Shortages That Could Affect You in 2024

4 Major Drug Shortages That Could Affect You in 2024

Best Life, December 19, 2023

In today's world, we expect what we need to be available when we need it. That mindset certainly applies to the different medications we're prescribed, which can be debilitating to go without. But now, the U.S. is facing an onslaught of drug shortages, with over 300 drugs in short supply as of late spring—the highest number in a decade. Making matters worse, the average shortage impacts a least half a million people, according to an Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) report to Congress. And we could see several drug shortages continue in 2024.

NewHydrogen CEO Steve Hill Discusses Hydrogen’s Role in Future Fuels with Georgia Tech Energy and Environment Expert

NewHydrogen CEO Steve Hill Discusses Hydrogen’s Role in Future Fuels with Georgia Tech Energy and Environment Expert

The Associated Press, December 19, 2023

SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Dec. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewHydrogen, Inc. (OTCMKTS:NEWH), the developer of a breakthrough technology that uses clean energy and water to produce the world’s cheapest green hydrogen, today announced that in a recent podcast the Company’s CEO Steve Hill spoke with Dr. Valerie M. Thomas, Georgia Tech Andersen Interface Chair of Natural Systems in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the School of Public Policy regarding the challenges and opportunities in evaluating the carbon footprint of different fuels. Their discussion provided a comprehensive overview of the current state and future possibilities of hydrogen as a pivotal component in the global transition to sustainable energy.

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