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The photo was taken on the doctor's 252nd straight day of working in the hospital. A photo of a doctor in full personal protective equipment, hugging an elderly patient suffering from the novel coronavirus , serves as a reminder of the human toll and impact of the virus during the holiday season. The photo, taken on Thanksgiving, shows Dr. Joseph Varon cradling a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Houston's United Memorial Medical Center. Thursday marked Varon's 252nd straight...

A college student on Twitter shared a pre-Thanksgiving e-mail she and her classmates received from a professor, and it's just the best example of real human-kindness. It reads: "Good morning. I know this has been a difficult time for a lot of you—some of you have had Covid, some of you are currently in quarantine, and some of you may not be able to go home for Thanksgiving as you have family members who are socially distancing. I don't want anyone to feel alone at Thanksgiving, or to miss...

Hi Everyone! Welcome back. I am SO very excited to announce our special guest for this Thursday 11/19 12-1 PST. Please join us as we discuss everything school health and school nursing with rock star school nurse Robin Cogan. Along with all her amazing achievements in her bio below she has recently been featured on CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, and the NYT commenting on school health and the invaluable role of school nurses during a pandemic. Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN is a Nationally Certified...

November 13, 2020, EHR Intelligence. A lack of standardization can lead to gaps and inaccuracies in EHR data collection, resulting in inequitable care delivery. But providers are finding ways to overcome this challenge to deliver more equitable care to patients. Inequities in the healthcare system are abundant. From care delivery to health outcomes, there is a large divide in patient response and outcomes based on demographics such as gender, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and even zip...

By Brittany R. Collins, Education Week, November 12, 2020 Over the past few decades, trauma-informed teaching has gained ground in the United States, yet rarely is grief included in the conversation. In the midst of a global pandemic, with teachers and students confronting loss in and outside the classroom in new and myriad ways, it is more critical than ever to apply a grief-sensitive lens to our conversations about curricula and trauma in the school system. We are not the people we were a...

By Elizabeth Lawrence, The Washington Post, November 8, 2020 Betial Asmerom, a fourth-year medical student at the University of California at San Diego, didn’t have the slightest interest in becoming a doctor when she was growing up. As an adolescent, she helped her parents — immigrants from Eritrea who spoke little English — navigate the health-care system in Oakland, Calif. She saw physicians who were disrespectful to her family and uncaring about treatment for her mother’s cirrhosis,...

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, November 9, 2020, Grant Announcement . $2.9 million National Institute on Aging grant to USC's Eileen Crimmins supports collaboration of large studies in US, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to answer questions about how life circumstances affect gene expression and health. A new three-nation project will examine how social, economic, psychological, environmental and behavioral circumstances in childhood influence gene expression and affect health...

First-year medical student Sean Sweat "didn't want to tiptoe around" issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version of the medical profession's venerable Hippocratic oath. "We start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery," begins the alternate version of the oath, rewritten for the class of 2024 at the University of Pittsburgh...

Join us on Friday November 6, 2020 from noon to 1:00 PST as we come together and join Satya Chandragiri MD, Bonnie O’Hern RN, Denise Proudfoot RN, & Michael Polacek RN for a discussion around the tender issue of suicide. Together we will discuss ways people and providers can support each other and encourage communities to take action to support one another around suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and the layers of culture and structural barriers to care. A special emphasis will be...

English: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , ACEs Connection , and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance have co-created a newly developed resource, “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in both English and Spanish. This material is intended for Californian families experiencing the severe...

Mukoso N. Ozieh, MD, MSCR, Emma Garacci, MS, Jennifer A. Campbell, MPH, Rebekah J. Walker, PhD, Leonard E. Egede, MD, MS. RESEARCH ARTICLE | VOLUME 59, ISSUE 2 , E49-E57, AUGUST 01, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.04.005 Introduction Evidence suggests that individuals with a history of adverse childhood experiences have higher odds of developing kidney disease than individuals with no adverse childhood experiences. However, no study has examined the influence of coexisting...

By Kelsey Waddill, October 23, 2020, Health Payer Intelligence. To employ a comprehensive social determinants of health approach, payers can devise innovative solutions that tackle each of the five social determinants of health domains. October 23, 2020 - There are five social determinants of health domains, according to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) Healthy People 2030 website . While certain domains will at times require more urgent attention than others, a...