The Daily Populous

TPS for the Children

Children's Health staff meet daily to review and tweak their processes, in keeping with the principles of the Toyota Production System.

The hospital employs quantitiave methods to track their progress and identify opportunities for further improvement.

“When you see a sick child at a hospital, it gets pretty emotional,” says Dickson.

“If there’s any way we can do something to help them, we’re going to do it.

“The way we systemically break down a problem was completely foreign to the people at the hospitals,” says Dickson.

“They’re absolutely thrilled with the progress we’ve made and, if at all possible, looking to eliminate these infections all together.

But when you can do something to help children, it does make it even more special. »

Internet companies too big? FTC chair says more than market share counts

Authored by usatoday.com

As Ohlhausen put it in her speech, the fear is that “we are spiraling towards a dystopian future where a few giant technology companies will ultimately gain sustained control over our economic lives.”.

Ohlhausen said technological platforms don't necessarily win simply because they had a big portion of the market at one time.

Rather, she, and the FTC, have "vigorously supported policy positions that they sometimes love and sometimes hate.". »

Protest after biracial boy, eight, nearly hanged by teenagers

Authored by news.sky.com

Dozens of people have gathered at a New Hampshire park to stage a rally after an eight-year-old biracial boy was nearly hanged by a group of teenagers, according to his family.

Rebecca MacKenzie, from Claremont, said she organised the rally on Tuesday to draw attention to racial intolerance and xenophobia.

Biracial families from towns around Claremont said they had friends who had been racially abused or assaulted because they are not white. »

‘If we can feed 160m, we can also feed 700,000 Rohingya refugees’

Authored by dhakatribune.com

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh can feed 700,000 Rohingya refugees.

Violence erupted again in Rakhine State of Myanmar on August 24, forcing almost 300,000 Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh totalling the amount to 700,000 so far.

We will do all we can to ease the suffering of the Rohingya refugees.”. »

Oysters Can Get Herpes, And It’s Killing Them

Authored by smithsonianmag.com

In contrast to Eastern oysters, Pacific oysters were relatively resistant to infectious diseases until OsHV-1 emerged in the early 1990s.

But this approach involves exposing healthy oysters to the virus – and moving oysters infected with OsHV-1 to naive (disease-free) areas could spread the virus.

Oysters can’t move themselves out of harm’s way, nor can we move all susceptible oysters, so we need to protect them where they grow. »