A $30 million (€26 million) extension has helped Ada Health to close its newest series B spherical at $120 million (€105 million). Amid the new buyers from Europe and the US are Farallon Funds, Pink River West, Bertelsman Investments and Schroders Funds, the latter with an acquisition of vehicles. With the funding furnished, Ada Wellbeing plans to broaden […]
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What is the future of COVID and incarceration?
By Elizabeth Thompson From the Alpha variant to Delta to Omicron, the COVID-19 virus is changing, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Incarcerated people and their families wonder what the future of COVID means for them. Incarcerated people have been acutely impacted by the highs and lows of the pandemic. Not only must […]
American Indians look for ways to stop overdose deaths
By Melba Newsome In September 2018, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) made it onto a list they probably would have preferred to avoid. The Office of National Drug Control Policy identified the Qualla Boundary, the Eastern Band’s 56,000-acre homeland just south of Smoky Mountains National Park, as one of 10 “high intensity drug […]
Months in, Medicaid transition still confusing patients
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven About 1.7 million people in the state have experienced a change to their insurance in the seven months since North Carolina began its switch from a Medicaid system administered by the state to one managed by five for-profit organizations (and one by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for tribal members). Despite […]
Wake Forest University students on fertilizer plant fire
By Mariama Jallow On the evening of Jan. 31, a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem, displacing 6,500 residents while emergency officials waited to see if the combustible materials would cause explosions. The Winston Weaver Company Fertilizer site is not too far from Wake […]
Depression responds to transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment in studies : Shots
Eleanor Cole, Ph.D., demonstrates the treatment on trial participant Deirdre Lehman in May 2019 at the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab. Steve Fisch for Stanford Medicine hide caption toggle caption Steve Fisch for Stanford Medicine Eleanor Cole, Ph.D., demonstrates the treatment on trial participant Deirdre Lehman in May 2019 at the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab. Steve […]