COMPASS Pathfinder Ltd.: COMPASS Pathways appoints Wayne J Riley MD to its Board of Directors
London, UK - 1 April 2021 COMPASS Pathways plc (Nasdaq: CMPS) ( COMPASS ), a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health, announced today that it has appointed Wayne J Riley MD to its Board of Directors.
Dr Riley is President of the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, where he holds tenured professorships in internal medicine, and health policy and management. A primary care physician and an academic, he has more than 25 years of experience encompassing clinical and academic medicine, research programme oversight, biotechnology, primary care, public health, healthcare management and policy, healthcare quality, academic health science centre administration, and government service.
As Cuomo Sought $4 Million Book Deal, Aides Hid Damaging Death Toll
Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted, “I am not a superhero,” in early versions of his book, drafted as his aides scrubbed a politically damaging Health Department report.
An unpublished draft of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book contained a three-page-long broadside against Mayor Bill de Blasio, the governor’s fellow Democrat and frequent political foe.Credit.Jeenah Moon/Getty Images
March 31, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. As the coronavirus subsided in New York last year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had begun pitching a book proposal that would center on his image as a hero of the pandemic. But by early last summer, both his book and image had hit a critical juncture.
New York weighs expanded in-school coronavirus testing as students return
State has $335 million to distribute among 700 districts for COVID-19 screenings
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New York state is weighing how to distribute hundreds of millions of new federal dollars that are to be used for an expansion COVID-19 testing in public K-12 schools.. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY State officials are weighing how to distribute hundreds of millions new federal dollars that are to be used for an expansion COVID-19 testing in public K-12 schools.
New York is poised to receive $335 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control this month to distribute among more than 700 districts, one component of the Biden administration s effort to flood schools with federal money and bring back in-person learning for most students by this spring.
Mohamed Sadek for TIME Twyla Joseph in Islip Terrace, N.Y., on Feb. 5, as her day begins
The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged.
Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her classes online at home in Islip Terrace, N.Y. She missed out on seasons of varsity cross-country and track, and lost contact with the coach who “used to give us really good life advice.” During the five months she was furloughed from her job at Panera Bread, she spent the money she’d been saving for college. And while she’s back at work now for about 28 hours per week, often dealing with customers who refuse to wear face masks, she is worried not only about whether she will be able to