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25% Off Your First Month | If your New Year’s resolution is to focus on overall wellness—congratulations on taking the first step! The world’s largest professional online therapy platform, BetterHelp , wants to help kickstart your mental health resolution—they’re offering 25% off your first month. Finding an affordable, accredited therapist to suit you can be a little difficult, but BetterHelp’s platform makes it easy to find a therapist that fits your unique needs. Within 48 hours, you can be connected to a therapist that specializes in anxiety, depression, grief, or something more like relationships or trauma-focused therapy. Once you’ve been matched, scheduling is simple, and you can choose to have your therapy sessions over the phone, or on a live video call. Between sessions, you can send unlimited messages with your therapist. With BetterHelp , you’ll also have access to journaling, worksheets, and group webinars to further your journey. Wellness extends well … [Read more...] about Prioritize Your Mental Health with 25% Off Your First Month of BetterHelp

Health informatics broadly describes the streamlining of patient data processes and the administration of health care; it is an interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to fixing the health data ecosystem, thereby improving care for all patients. Data-driven approaches will overhaul older forms of medical record keeping, to ease the work of medical professionals as well as the patient’s burden of sifting through paperwork and lab results and tracking their own health history. The Degrees of the Future 2022 top Health Informatics programs are: Advertisement Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, New York Duke University | Durham, North Carolina Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | Indianapolis, Indiana Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland New York University | New York, New York Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, … [Read more...] about Degrees of the Future 2022: Health Informatics

Public health experts are fed up with the anti-vaccination movement, which is Watch CC Off English Why Was it Important to Introduce Riri Williams? | Black Panther 2 Interview 01:27 Now playing Does Mali Elfman Believe in Ghosts? | Next Exit Yesterday 2:50PM 01:43 Now playing Don’t Mess With Luthen and His Fricking Lasership | Andor Review Yesterday 11:41AM Crafted by some of the most well-known and leading experts in vaccine advocacy and research , the so-called Salzburg Statement on Vaccination Acceptance, released Tuesday, is also endorsed by members of the World Health Organization and researchers across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. According to Scott Ratzan, co-author as well as founder of the International Working Group on Vaccination and Public Health Solutions, the statement was at least partly … [Read more...] about Public Health Experts Call for Aggressive, Global Push Against Antivaxxers

Medicine has come so far in 100 years—and yet many diseases have eluded our best efforts at treatments and cures. You can think of health research and innovation as the catch-all R&D department for healthcare. It’s essential work: Research in cell lines, animals, and computer models steadily progresses into human therapies. New ways of testing and developing drugs should speed the pace of innovation in the coming years. The Degrees of the Future 2022 top Health Research & Innovation programs are: Advertisement Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, Texas Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, New York Duke University | Durham, North Carolina George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | Indianapolis, Indiana Johns … [Read more...] about Degrees of the Future 2022: Health Research & Innovation

Over-the-counter hearing aids in the U.S. are officially becoming a reality. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration Watch CC Off English 988—The New National Suicide Prevention Hotline 01:41 Now playing Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy Nightmare May 3, 2022 00:19 Now playing Studenglass Kompact Demonstration Today 4:09PM The arrival of OTC hearing aids has been a long time coming. Five years ago, as part of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, the FDA was tasked with developing regulations that would create a new category of hearing aids that could be sold in traditional retail or online outlets. In July 2021, President Biden signed an executive order that, among many other things, pushed the FDA to speed along its regulatory process. By late October 2021 Why don’t more people use hearing aids? About 15% of … [Read more...] about Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Finally on the Way

The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. has shortened life expectancy and caused untold suffering. The synthetic drug fentanyl has been particularly devastating, because it’s so potent compared to other opioids. New research in rats may offer a glimmer of hope, however: Scientists found that an experimental vaccine can prevent the behavioral and physiological effects of fentanyl, by producing antibodies that bind to the drug in the bloodstream. The work is detailed in a study published in late October in the journal Pharmaceutics. Watch CC Off English Lions on Oxytocin are Surprisingly Chill 01:53 Now playing Do Not Steal Our Robot Dog! Yesterday 5:16PM 01:04 Now playing Why Do We Use Humor to Talk About Death? | Next Exit Interview Yesterday 5:12PM This isn’t the first research to demonstrate a successful … [Read more...] about Experimental Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl From Rats’ Brains