Ill and on the streets As homelessness increases, so too does the need for compassionate medical care; Catholic agencies and individuals are stepping up to help Walter, homeless off and on for years, rests in the Hollywood District of Northeast Portland April 16. âEveryone on the street has a medical condition, itâs just a matter of degree,â said the 60-year-old. âI have skin and digestive difficulties. Some have cancer.â (Katie Scott/Catholic Sentinel)
select University of Portland nursing student Crystal Moran administers a flu shot to a homeless woman last fall outside Blanchet House. Emily Harrington and members of the U.P. nursing program staff a new medical clinic at the Portland nonprofit. (Courtesy Blanchet House)
– According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. New Canaan Library is pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Lin, Associate Professor of Neurology, and acting director of the Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Clinic, to speak on this important topic. Dr. Lin will present his talk via live webinar on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 PM EST. Zoom sign in information will be provided upon registration at newcanaanlibrary.org.
Although statistics point to the fact that Alzheimer’s disease is quite common, it does not mean it is “normal” to lose memory as one ages. While some risk factors for Alzheimer’s cannot be altered, there are some things one can do that may reduce the potential of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Lin will address the factors and lifestyle choices that may reduce risks and discuss how doctors recognize Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, he will discuss how to prepare for Alzheimer’s disease the emotional, finan
Humanity taking ‘colossal risk’ with our future: Nobels
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PARIS, April 30, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The failure to halt climate change, the destruction of nature and other intertwined global crises poses an existential risk to humanity, ten Nobel laureates said Thursday following the first-ever Nobel Prize Summit.
Only profound changes in the way society produces, distributes and consumes almost everything starting with energy can forestall potentially catastrophic changes, they said in a joint statement, also signed by 20 other top thinkers.
“We need to reinvent our relationship with planet Earth,” the statement said. “Without transformational action this decade, humanity is taking colossal risks with our common future.”
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This is silly and ill-informed twice over. First he implies that it’s safe for him, a vaccinated person, to go maskless outdoors only because he’s the president and there usually aren’t other people in his immediate vicinity. But that’s wrong. Even the CDC’s cautious new guidance allows someone who’s been immunized to attend “small” outdoor gatherings with a mixed crowd of vaccinated and unvaccinated people without a mask. There’s no rule that says a vaxxed person needs to take precautions just because some stranger is within arm’s length outside.
Second, he claims that if he and the NBC reporter were sitting closer together indoors then they would have masked up. Also wrong. The CDC said weeks ago that it’s okay for vaccinated people to hold small gatherings together indoors without masks. No distancing requirements involved.
The Health 202: CDC s mask guidance is still too strict for the vaccinated, some experts say Paige Winfield Cunningham
with Alexandra Ellerbeck Virtually everyone was vaccinated at the joint session of Congress this week. Yet it still looked like a pandemic scene as President Biden addressed masked and distanced lawmakers in the House chamber.
The approach frustrated a number of public health experts, who are starting to question the Biden administration’s conservative approach to public health guidance despite highly effective and now widely distributed coronavirus vaccines. “Everyone could have been in that room,” said Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. “If we’re all fully vaccinated, we could all be unmasked and distanced in that room.”