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Providing veterans with temporary financial assistance helps them get into stable housing and also reduces their health care costs, according to a nationwide study led by University of Utah Health researchers. Photo credit: Getty Images
Ensuring that veterans have stable housing not only reduces homelessness but also slashes the cost of providing them with publicly funded health care, according to a national study led by University of Utah Health scientists. The researchers found that veterans who received temporary financial assistance (TFA) from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to acquire or retain housing had fewer hospital visits and an average reduction in health care costs of $2,800 over a two-year period than veterans who did not receive this benefit.
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Retina Forum® 2021: Meeting the Vision of Reduced Treatment Burden in Neovascular Retinal Diseases - Session on Extending the Duration of Therapy
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Don’t skip that second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, advises a 4/29/21 story by Tara Parker-Pope at The New York Times, even if you already have had COVID-19. With new variants evolving and spreading globally, as well as to get all the protection possible from your vaccination, it does matter whether you get your second dose, the story states. And down the road, “missing the second shot could create problems…if workplaces, college campuses, airlines and border patrol agents require proof of full vaccination,” Parker-Pope writes. The story cites a 4/28/21 report in The New England Journal of Medicine of a survey which found that 20 percent of respondents thought they were strongly protected from SARS-CoV-2 after just one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna two-dose vaccines. Countries such as the UK and Canada that are delaying administration of the
April 29, 2021
After 19 years of service, Hua-Chuan Sim, MD, Acting Director of NLM’s Extramural Programs (EP) is retiring from federal service on Friday, April 30.
Dr. Sim served in many important roles. In his most recent role, as Acting Director, EP, since December 2020, Dr. Sim ensured the successful award of five-year cooperative agreements for seven Regional Medical Libraries and four National Coordinating Offices in the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), as well as preparations for the recompetition of NLM’s university-based training program in biomedical informatics and data science. Prior to taking on this role at NLM, Dr. Sim served for many years as NLM’s Chief Program Officer, with oversight and coordination of the entire grant program plus responsibility for the grant portfolio relating to clinical/public health informatics. We are grateful to Dr. Sim for his years of dedicated service to NLM.