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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Smartphone apps now include a variety of self-management tools for weight loss, physical activity, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups? How can we avoid creating "digital divides" that could worsen health disparities?

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. Eneli spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about these prevention programs and ways that pediatricians can help reduce weight gain in early childhood. It really does take a village.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Right Relationships in the Real World

Doctor Rachel

I am a 51 year old volleyball player who is doing her best and having a lot of fun, and honestly… will probably peak in my physical ability within the next 4 years.” Father Tutu oversaw the Truth and Reconciliation process that allowed South Africa to make a miraculous peaceful transition from Apartheid, to shared governing.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He was a terrible diabetic. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. He did have a habit of drinking a bit and drank quite a bit. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident.