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Lake County News,California – For struggling older adults, support from paid peers may alleviate loneliness, depression
An initiative that paired paid visitors with racially diverse older adults, many of whom lived alone and struggled with taking care of their basic needs, resulted in reduced loneliness and plunging rates of depression. In a study led by UC San Francisco, researchers matched the visitors with 74 participants, ages 59 to 96, from the Tenderloin, a low-income neighborhood in downtown San Francisco. The participants had “histories of isolation,” some had faced periods of homelessness, and all were consumers of the city’s public mental health services. The eight peers, who were also older adults, had undergone two weeks of training … Read more
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Health system merger demands close scrutiny
Linda Katz, policy director of the Economic Progress Institute and chairperson of the Protect Our Healthcare Coalition, and Brenda Clement, director of HousingWorksRI, serve as their organizations’ representatives on the Protect Our Healthcare Coalition. Marjorie L. Waters, community organizer with the Rhode Island Organizing Project, contributed to this commentary. The proposed Lifespan and Care New England merger provides a tremendous opportunity for Rhode Islanders to examine and reshape health and health care in our state. However, to achieve positive change with improvements in health, equity, access, and quality we must include diverse voices and put the public’s health — and … Read more
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Research Integrity and Scholarly Excellence Lecture Series features health policy and medical decision-making expert | VTx
The Division of Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance in the Office for Research and Innovation is hosting its fall lecture in the Research Integrity and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Lecture Series: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science on Sept. 16 at noon. This year marks the second year of the RISE Lecture Series. Invited guest speaker Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will discuss the importance of reproducibility and replicability in science. Fineberg, former president of the National Academy of Medicine, chaired the National Academies committee on this topic, which resulted in a widely referenced report … Read more
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Cabarrus College debuts community health and wellness program | Education
Cabarrus College of Health Sciences traces its roots to 1942. Cabarrus College of Health Sciences photo From staff reports CONCORD — Cabarrus College of Health Sciences continues to expand its health science program offerings with the introduction of a new Bachelor of Science in Community Health and Wellness. This four-year bachelor’s degree program is designed to meet the growing need for improved community health, education, disease prevention and access to health care. “Our communities are stronger when our people are healthier,” said Cabarrus College President Cam Cruickshank, Ph.D. “Graduates of our program will have the skills and knowledge to promote … Read more
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Women’s health app Flo picks up $50M in fresh funding to fuel R&D, rapid growth
Popular women’s health app Flo just got more personal as it gains traction in the femtech industry. In its latest financing, Flo secured $50 million, the company announced Thursday. The series B funding round was led by VNV Global and Target Global and brings its total capital raised to $65 million. The startup is now valued at $800 million, according to company executives. The financing will be used to enhance the app’s personalization capabilities and provide users with advanced insights and patterns to their menstrual cycles and overall health. The app tracks cycles and symptom patterns, using artificial intelligence to … Read more
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Autoimmune diseases may be rising for 9/11 survivors. But the government hasn’t acknowledged a link.
Since then, six petitions to the World Trade Center Health Program have asked to add autoimmune diseases to the list, but federal health officials have denied all of them for insufficient evidence, most recently in 2017. A spokesperson for the health program, which is run by a division of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, said in a statement that previous petitions to add autoimmune diseases to the list of covered conditions haven’t met the “threshold of being substantially likely to be causally associated with 9/11 exposures.” Wilkenfeld said: … Read more
