Winston-Salem woman who lost daughter to overdose seeks to help others with grief
Susan Stevens will graduate from the Wake Forest School of Medicine this month, after studying the complicated grief from addiction and overdose. Author: Alma McCarty Updated: 2:49 PM EDT May 24, 2021
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. For months, we ve all paid special attention to a single crisis - the coronavirus pandemic. But before the first positive tests and deaths, our country was battling something else: The opioid crisis.
It didn t go away. The CDC reports that overdoses are up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number keeps climbing
Inmar Intelligence plans moving from Innovation Quarter to One West Fourth tower
Inmar Intelligence is moving on from its anchor space in Innovation Quarter, but is not leaving downtown Winston-Salem.
Inmar said in a company blog posted Thursday that it is departing from a 242,000-square-foot headquarters building renovated from a vacant former R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. facility.
The company is taking about 177,000 square feet in the One West Fourth tower to the west. It is planning to complete the move by May 2022.
Inmar currently occupies a 242,000-square-foot building in Innovation Quarter, making it the largest tenant in the research district.
Breathing in secondhand cigarette smoke may leave you more vulnerable to heart failure, a condition where the heart isn t pumping as well as it should and has a hard time meeting the body s needs, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology s 70th Annual Scientific Session.
Exposure to secondhand smoke may increase odds of developing heart failure
Breathing in secondhand cigarette smoke may leave you more vulnerable to heart failure, a condition where the heart isn t pumping as well as it should and has a hard time meeting the body s needs, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology s 70
th Annual Scientific Session.
The data showed that nonsmokers with recent exposure to secondhand smoke had a 35% increased odds of developing heart failure compared with those who hadn t been around tobacco. The association between tobacco exposure and heart failure remained, even after controlling for other factors known to heighten the risk for heart failure such as a history of other heart conditions, high cholesterol and diabetes.