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Loading video... VIDEO: A new GeneSight Mental Health Monitor national survey finds 83 percent of those diagnosed with depression say life would be easier if others could understand what theyre going through. Yet,... view more  Credit: GeneSight Mental Health Monitor In a new nationwide poll, the GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor found that 83% of people with depression agree that life would be easier if others could understand their depression. Yet, most people who have not experienced ...

Addiction recovery brochures. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Experts fear that the isolation and trauma of the pandemic will only worsen the spread and stigma of substance use disorders and addiction. But in the Veterans Affairs health care system, psychologists are using a new intervention that has had great success in treating one of the most difficult addictions to break: methamphetamine. Host Tonya Mosley speaks with Dominick DePhilippis, a clinical psychologist with the Corporal Michael J. ...

State of Our City | Feb. 18-25 Some bite-sized morsels of news you may have missed in other places. Cupid’s…shot? More than 1,800 veterans got a little something special for Valentine’s Day when they received their second and final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center on Sunday. The hospital has been consistently vaccinating eligible veterans since mid-December. Maybe somebody in City Hall should take a page from the ...

The Victor J. Saracini Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Horsham announced Tuesday that it will be offering the COVID-19 vaccine through the end of this week. The clinic, located at 433 Caredean Drive in Horsham, will provide vaccines for those with appointments only between 4 and 7 p.m. through Friday and all day Saturday, the release states. Veterans must be enrolled in VA Healthcare to be eligible and they must be either 75 years or older or 65 years old or older with co...

Veterans from N.J. to get COVID vaccine at pop-up clinics Updated Jan 29, 2021; That’s why a pair of South Jersey pop-up clinics are being set up this weekend to vaccinate eligible veterans. The two clinics, one in Runnemede in Camden County and the other in Rio Grande in Cape May County, seek to vaccinate about 500 veterans each on Saturday. “We realize that 588 doses is not an enormous number, but for those veterans and their families, it has a huge impact,” Camden County Commissioner...

Just one day prior to the 76ers 2020-21 season opener, the team visited the Bartram Village Community Center in Southwest Philadelphia to welcome the 15 newest members of the organization. By way of honorary one-day contracts, 15 youth, selected by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, were treated to a day of surprises as part of the team’s annual Holiday Hoopla, presented by The GIANT Company. While these 15 youth did not suit up for the team’s opener against the Washington Wizards on Dec. ...

VA unveils first coronavirus vaccine sites as case numbers continue to climb December 11, 2020 A pharmacist labels syringes in a room where doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be handled on Dec. 9, 2020, at Mount Sinai Queens hospital in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP) Veterans Affairs leaders publicly unveiled their initial plans for coronavirus vaccine distribution this week as active cases and deaths related to the illness reached record highs among the department’s patients. According to d...

A lead author, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Quality and Clinical Transformation Officer at University Hospitals and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, developed the concept of "defects in value." He and co-first author John W. Urwin, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, wrote their model "offers a ho...