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What’s in the Air: Invisible Threats to Soldiers’ Health
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) face growing concerns over the long-term health impacts of airborne hazards and radiation exposure on their military personnel. From burn pits to battlefield radiation, service members are exposed to constant toxins that may lead to chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, or other deadly conditions. This case study focuses on the common issues veterans and current soldiers have faced with airborne hazards and radiation exposure, and possible solutions to address them.
Healthcare Disparities in Sub-Saharan Africa
The lack of healthcare facilities and access to treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa forces those living in rural communities to rely on alternate remedies and travel long distances to seek medical care. Facing the highest burden of diseases while having the least amount of access to healthcare, these sub-saharan African countries remain in a cycle of poor healthcare and economic challenges. In order to increase the number of workers in healthcare, better conditions along with timely pay will prevent the loss of skilled workers in these areas, while ziplines can help with lowering the cost of medication and transportation. Since the cost of healthcare prevents people from being treated, expanding healthcare budgets reduces out-of-pocket expenses. Companies such as Amerf, provide treatment to people who are in isolated villages.
Security in Silence: Analyzing the CrowdStrike Outage
On July 19, 2024, the internet realm faced a blaring crisis. After cybersecurity company Crowdstrike released an untested and defective software, a programming flaw caused millions of Microsoft PCs to crash, triggering global confusion. Following the outage, multiple industries, including the airline industry, healthcare sectors, and government agencies faced significant financial losses and operational malfunctions, causing many organizations to reconsider their reliance on Crowdstrike’s services. All in all, this case study uncovers the root causes to the outage and its impact, and key mediums to combatting similar outages in the future.
Critical Issues in Fraternities Across Campuses
The dangers of fraternity and sorority hazing is an undermined issue that is overlooked in our society today. The issue is a rising concern that many advocate for implementing safer measures. Peer pressure, social hierarchies, and legal issues come into play as they are the core problems leading to this concern. Fraternities praise partying which often leads to substance abuse that results in peer pressure becoming a serious consequence. These problems are easily disregarded as they are not addressed in the legal aspect. Although fraternities are viewed as connections to brotherhood and social life, hazing often leads to risky measures that could lead to serious consequences, and in some extreme cases, death. Many communities affected by hazing have implemented strong measures to discontinue these threatening acts.