Veterans Voice: Event raises awareness of heart disease in women vets
By Mary K. Talbot
Nancy Euell, 63, spent five years in the Air Force on active duty and another 15 as a civilian employee. So when she moved from Atlanta to Rhode Island and wanted to find a doctor, she didn’t hesitate to sign up for VA Providence Healthcare. She was familiar with the quality of care that the VA offers and wasted no time enrolling upon her arrival.
Euell scheduled a routine physical where she was pleased to meet Dr. Lauren Schlanger, her new primary care physician. Tests were ordered to get a better picture of Eull’s overall health at that initial meeting and it was then that an irregular heartbeat was detected. “They said it was a murmur. Then they went on to test some more and they wanted to know if I ever had rheumatic fever,” she remembers. Her mitral valve wasn’t working as expected so Euell was placed on a heart monitor for observation.
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Woebot Health Names Timothy Mariano Vice President and Medical Director
January 26, 2021 GMT
Dr. Timothy Mariano, MD, PhD, MSc, Vice President and Medical Director, Woebot Health (Photo: Business Wire)
Dr. Timothy Mariano, MD, PhD, MSc, Vice President and Medical Director, Woebot Health (Photo: Business Wire)
SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 26, 2021
Woebot Health announced today that it has appointed Timothy Mariano, MD, PhD, MSc, as vice president and medical director. In the newly created position, Dr. Mariano will provide medical, clinical and regulatory leadership for the company’s growing pipeline of prescription digital therapeutics that are designed to scale to fill gaps in care and engage people to improve their mental health outcomes. Reporting to Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer Monique Levy, Dr. Mariano will also advance scientific partnerships and be a core member
Raw determination fueled the military career of Onofrio “Niffy” Andrews, 87. Growing up in Bristol during the Great Depression, times were challenging and his family, like many others, was facing financial struggles.
Niffy was one of five boys in the Andrews family. He dropped out of school, first at age 16 because he wanted to go to work, and then, again, a year later. That time, he forged the signatures that would enable him to enlist. He was ready to leave Bristol, make a clean break with his past and chart a new course to success in the Air Force.
Although he lacked a formal education, Niffy had more than just street smarts. Once he arrived for duty, Andrews underwent aptitude testing and he fared well in all areas. His first assignment was as a radio intercept operator where he copied Russian code for the United States Air Force Security Service. He was stationed in the Aleutian Islands for the first year, then moved to Texas before volunteering for an assignment
“We’re excited to be taking the offensive against the coronavirus in 2021, offering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to our veterans at highest risk of severe illness,” Lawrence Connell, director of the VA Providence system, said in the release.
“As vaccine supplies continue to arrive, our ultimate goal is to offer free COVID-19 vaccination to all enrolled veterans and VA employees who want it, he said.
As of Sept. 30, the VA Providence Healthcare System was serving about 34,000 veterans, including 1,073 Veterans WWII-era Veterans enrolled and active with us, according to spokesman Winfield Danielson III.
The veterans live in Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, Martha s Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as some from eastern Connecticut, Danielson said.
ATTLEBORO Waiting in their front yard for the last of the news teams to arrive, David and Joeana Mills-Donahue had already begun their last hour as Kanoh s foster family.
The dog, 90 pounds of energy on springs with a great capacity for happiness, sported a new collar and leash from Dogs on Deployment, the organization that placed him with the Donahues while his owner, Master Sgt. Hector Rivera, was in Kuwait with his unit from the Westover Air Reserve Base.
Were they sad to lose the dog that has lived with them nearly as long as they ve lived in their house?