Craig Collins
Craig Collins is a veteran freelance writer and a regular Faircount Media Group contributor who has almost twenty years experience reporting about government, the military, health care and the sciences.
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Wearable Technology: On the Threshold of Clinical Care
It’s a strange-sounding name for a medical outfit, but the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit is just that: a unit that …
Combat Casualty Care
Throughout 21st century combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, American military medicine achieved an unprecedented survival rate. By 2016, more than …
Coast Guard Short-Range UAS Do Yeoman’s Work
On June 17, 2018, not long after the 990-foot cargo vessel American Spirit, fully loaded with iron ore, grounded in …
The Pentagon in Peace and War
Even today, 75 years later, the numbers are staggering: The massive building, constructed to bring the U.S. Department of War …
The Opioid Crisis: A Maritime Perspective
Coast Guard personnel are accustomed to viewing drug abuse as law enforcement professionals, looking into criminal activity from the outside. …
Coast Guard Maritime Drug Interdiction
In mid-September 2018, at the conclusion of a deployment that had taken it from maritime domain awareness patrols off the …
Interview with Adm. Karl L. Schultz
Adm. Karl L. Schultz assumed the duties as the 26th commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard on June 1, 2018. …
Design and Assembly of the International Space Station
Sometime around 1985, just after the Reagan administration had given the green light for NASA to build a space station …
The International Space Station: A Renaissance in Space Exploration and Research
About a century before humans had the technology to do anything about it, their longing to slip the bonds of …
VA Research: Respiratory Health
Because a variety of factors – including infectious diseases, cancer, genetics, and environmental hazards – can cause or contribute to …