By Mona Dougani Chris Suttle planned his funeral five years ago. The commercial insurance consultant was diagnosed with a frontal lobe brain mass in 2017. Doctors left him with two choices: undergo a full craniotomy and biopsy the mass to see if it was aggressive or simply wait out his fate. Instead, the Chapel Hill […]
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Has telehealth democratized health care? Maybe.
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Early in 2020, as the world shut down, health care providers scrambled to get online as patients clamored to get treatment via telehealth. In mere weeks, the ability to connect with a physician, psychologist or nurse through a computer exploded. As novel as the explosion of telehealth was, the technology itself wasn’t […]
988: Transforming America’s Behavioral Health Safety Net
In 2020, Congress designated 988 as an straightforward to bear in mind 3-digit dialing, texting, and chat code to support people enduring mental well being and/or material use emergencies. 988 will enhance the recent Countrywide Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which is at present answered by around 200 area crisis facilities across the country. The Harris Center […]
Indian health tech startup MediBuddy acquires telehealth platform Clinix
Wellness tech startup MediBuddy has obtained Clinix, a telehealth platform concentrated on providing on the web health solutions in rural India, for an undisclosed sum. Started in 2020, Clinix has an Android mobile application for reserving online doctor consultations. Its community addresses 20 tier 3 and 4 metropolitan areas the place it has also established […]
Minnesota joining other states to roll out 988 mental health crisis lifeline on July 16

 
 
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 July 14, 2022
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 New 3-digit dialing code streamlines entry to mental well being disaster assistance 
 Setting up Saturday, July 16, people today struggling with a psychological wellbeing disaster can dial 988 to hook up to assistance. The change is section of a nationwide effort and hard […]
Chemours challenges EPA health advisory for GenX
By Trista Talton Coastal Review Online The Chemours Company is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its recent health advisory for GenX, one of the contaminants discharged for years into the Cape Fear River from the company’s plant in Fayetteville. Chemours is challenging the EPA’s review of the agency’s health advisory for hexafluoropropylene oxide dime […]