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Four men carry a person on a metal frame bed out of a building, a nurse carrying a baby follows.

The Forgotten Frontier: Nursing Done in Wild Places

September 20, 2018 Circulating Now

By Emma Carter ~ “Where do babies come from?” Children have been asking this question for as long as humankind has populated the Earth, and

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Letters Shed Light on Huey Long’s Murder Mystery

September 11, 2018 Circulating Now

By Divyansh Agarwal ~ A seemingly typical Sunday evening in Louisiana, September 8, 1935, was about to become extraordinary. The House of Representatives had organized

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A nurse in dark goggles sits by a patient lying with skin exposed to a bright electric light.

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

December 20, 2016 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

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