This week is being used to celebrate the hard work of both researchers and the kids and families taking part in clinical trials that are happening at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba.
Christabel Agyei-Gyamfi was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2019 and last summer she got a transplant.
While she was a patient, she participated in research and made sure to include her feelings about not letting the disease get in the way of her life plans.
“I told myself that you have a condition. You can learn how to adapt to it and it shouldn’t stop…
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Mental Health Matters: QPR, three letters that can save someone in crisis
MIAMI – A frank conversation at the University of Miami during Mental Health Awareness Month was aimed at raising awareness of mental illness and suicide prevention.
“I’m someone who has dealt with suicide ideation since I was a teenager,” Lisa Leseur told a group of UM administrators, faculty members and students.
Leseur is the programs coordinator for the Miami-Dade chapter of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She visits local schools and businesses to train employees and students on QPR, Question, Persuade and Refer. Three skills are needed if someone mentors a friend, co-worker or fellow student with suicidal…
Dow Jones Breaks Support As President Biden Makes This Debt-Ceiling Move; Elon Musk Says Tesla Will ‘Try’ This
Dow Jones futures rose slightly after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Tesla (TSLA) is holding its annual shareholder meeting, but not offering a lot of big news.
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The stock market rallied retreated Tuesday as debt-ceiling fears added to selling pressure to close. The Nasdaq had rallied for much of the session thanks to megacap techs, including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabets (GOOGLE).
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones retreated most of the day, with the latter closing below the 50-day line. Market breadth was bleach.
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UF Health Jacksonville names Patrick Green as new CEO
UF Health Jacksonville announced May 10 that Yale New Haven Health executive Patrick Green is its next CEO.
Green is vice president of Yale New Haven Health and president and CEO of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut. He began those positions in 2017.
“It’s an honor and privilege to be joining UF Health Jacksonville at such an exciting time for the organization,” Green said in a news release.
“There has never been a stronger commitment to ensuring a thriving UF Health Jacksonville.”
Green, 49, who will start July 10, replaces Russ Armistead, who returned as interim CEO…
What are the laws for real estate contracts and mental health?
With Mental Health Week coming to a close, conversations around mental health in the industry will create a more supportive environment, says the CEO of the BC Real Estate Association.
Understanding the intersection of mental health, mental capacity and its impact on real estate contracts is a pertinent issue for any real estate agent in BC
As the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week comes to a close, and Mental Health Month begins in the US, one Vancouver-based lawyer is highlighting the intricacies of how to determine a person’s capacity to enter a contract that can impact real estate.…
Join letters call on province to address mental health crisis
Three teachers’ unions and a prominent youth advocacy group are urging the provincial government to bolster mental health literacy in the education curriculum and invest in additional school support workers.
In a joint letter issued to Education Minister Stephen Lecce on Monday, the groups also called on the government to include mental health or behavioral reasons as an excused absence under the Education Act. Currently, the act allows for “sickness or unavoidable causes,” but does not explicitly mention mental health.
The letter, signed by a total of nine organizations, comes amid a rising mental health crisis among Canadian youth and…
Feinstein’s future ‘in her own hands’ amid extended health absence from the Judiciary Committee, Durbin says
The future of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is “in her own hands,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Sunday, as Feinstein’s extended absence from the panel due to health issues has some fellow Democrats calling for her to resign.
Durbin, who succeeded Feinstein as chair of the Judiciary Committee, said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the longtime lawmaker has undergone “several weeks of travail” over a health issue involving shingles, but still wants to return to serve the committee.
“She said to Chuck Schumer last week that ‘I want to get on a…