Category: Health Care
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May 8, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Research
‘We Roar’ podcast: Battling the Racial Inequities of COVID-19
In the new “We Roar” podcast, surgical resident Glenn Wakam ’11 urges broad-based action to remedy health disparities exposed and amplified by the pandemic. “When this all started, COVID-19 was touted as the great equalizer,” said Wakam, currently volunteering in a Detroit-area hospital. “Officials said it didn’t matter your race, your religion, your socioeconomic status, that this would affect us all the same. That’s just not true.”
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May 8, 2020 Health Care, Service
Jim Ayala ’84 illuminates the COVID-19 medical response in the Philippines
In the poorest sections of rural Philippines, Jim Ayala ’84 and his solar-energy company have donated PPE equipment for more than 2,300 village frontliners and provided the equipment to light-up more than 130 unelectrified quarantine stations so that the health volunteers can effectively and safely do their jobs.
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May 7, 2020 Health Care
WWS Reacts: Health Coverage in the U.S. During Covid-19
Since its inception ten years ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has extended health care coverage to tens of millions of previously uninsured Americans. Yet, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people have lost their jobs and employer-sponsored health insurance. The Trump administration has decided not to mandate a special ACA enrollment period, while many state governments face severe shortages in funding that would enable them to increase Medicaid coverage. We asked faculty expert Heather Howard to share her thoughts on the ACA’s future.
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May 7, 2020 Education, Health Care
Public Health Educator Lindsey Leininger ’99 Helps Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
Overwhelmed with questions from friends and students, Lindsey Leininger ’99, a public health educator and researcher and a clinical professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, teamed up with friends, all of whom hold doctorates in various fields, to start Dear Pandemic, a Facebook page offering evidence-based advice on COVID-19.
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May 5, 2020 Health Care
Madison couple on front lines of COVID-19 embracing ‘air hugs’
Dr. Maggie Nolan ’05 and her husband, Dr. Matt Nolan, along with their three young children, are adjusting to life with COVID-19. (Photo by John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal)
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May 5, 2020 Community, Health Care
With One Project, Alum Aids Both Restaurant and Hospital Workers
Harvard medical student Natalie Guo ’12 founded Off Their Plate to feed hospital workers while keeping local restaurants workers employed in eight cities nationwide. Within a few weeks, the group had raised $3 million in donations and had served more than 100,000 meals from more than 90 participating restaurants.
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May 5, 2020 Health Care, Research, Technology
FDA approves ventilator designed by particle physics community
In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati brought a ventilator from concept to FDA approval.
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May 5, 2020 Health Care
New York Nurse Lauren Edmonds ’10 Battles COVID-19 and Fear
Intensive care nurse Lauren Edmonds ’10 recounts the changes — and the rising anxiety — in her New York hospital, where COVID-19 “has invaded hospitals and overwhelmed the health-care system to such an extent that no cough is benign and no symptom innocuous.”
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May 4, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Feeding the Frontlines
Disappointed to leave campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Princeton seniors and twin sisters Sneha and Preeti Iyer arrived back home to Fulton County, Georgia, ready to redirect their energy and reconnect with friends by helping launch a much-needed initiative that supports overworked health care workers in their communities.
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May 4, 2020 Health Care
In Boston, Alumni Doctors Face COVID-19 Together
Edward Ryan ’84, David Brown ’85, Erica Shenoy ’98, Jeffrey Ecker ’84, Paul Biddinger ’90, all of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, share their experiences fighting COVID-19.
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May 1, 2020 Health Care
Dr. Steven Brown ’77 Makes Hospital Rounds from His Living Room
Steven Brown ’77 has practiced medicine in rural areas for more than 10 years, not by meeting patients in an office or by their hospital beds, but virtually, monitoring them in hospitals from Missouri and Arkansas to Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Now with COVID-19 he has turned his living room into a command center for 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shifts.
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May 1, 2020 Health Care, Research
At NIH, Christopher Austin ’82 ‘Translates’ Science into Treatment For COVID-19
For Christopher Austin ’82, trying to understand and resolve the COVID-19 pandemic means 12-plus-hour shifts for many administrators and researchers at the National Institutes of Health, where Austin is director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The center seeks to improve the “translation” of scientific advances and research into new treatments and diagnostics to speed their delivery to patients.