Itâs plainly evident that many people are eating too much. But several serious eating disorders can be harder to see, especially when they deliberately hide the problem. Recent research indicates that pandemic-related stay-at-home orders have ramped up anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorders.
With COVID capturing all the headlines, itâs easy to lose sight of the looming mountain of mental health issues that are changing our healthcare horizon. Mental illnesses are the leading cause of premature death in Canada. In the U.S., Johns Hopkins University estimates that 26% of Americans ages 18 and older â about 1 in 4 adults â suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
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IMAGE: Dr. Randall Ellingson, professor of physics at The University of Toledo, received a $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to develop space-based solar energy sheets to transmit clean. view more
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The military is adding fuel to the momentum of physicists at The University of Toledo who are advancing new frontiers in thin-film, highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic technology to ensure a clean energy future.
The U.S. Air Force awarded UToledo $12.5 million to develop photovoltaic energy sheets that would live in space and harvest solar energy to transmit power wirelessly to Earth-based receivers or to other orbital or aerial instrumentation, such as communications satellites.
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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
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It’s difficult to find any aspect of our lives that has not been impacted by COVID‑19. Travel, holidays, business, entertainment, and much more look completely different today than they did a year ago. As K–12 and college students, faculty, teachers, and administrators know all too well, education has been deeply changed perhaps permanently by travel restrictions, school closures, and the switch to online education.But COVID‑19’s consequences for education have not been limited to location, access, or, in the University of California, Berkeley’s case, temporary bans on outdoor exercise. On campuses across the country, speech and due process rights have been challenged, too, as administrators struggle to respond to the pandemic. At the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we have been paying careful attention to how these
by Barry Teater, NCBiotech writer February 16, 2021 .
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – After 13 years as a clinical-stage oncology company, G1 Therapeutics of Research Triangle Park transformed into a commercial-stage company overnight upon the approval of its first drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA on Feb. 12 approved G1’s trilaciclib, to be marketed as Cosela, for protecting bone marrow from chemotherapy damage in adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC).
“Cosela will help change the chemotherapy experience for people who are battling ES-SCLC,” said Jack Bailey, the company’s chief executive officer. “G1 is proud to deliver Cosela to patients and their families as the first and only therapy to help protect against chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression.”
Maryland-College Park Announces Weeklong Sequester The University of Maryland's main campus in College Park on Saturday announced that all on-campus students would sequester in place for at least a week and that all instruction would move online beginning Monday. University officials cited a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases: Maryland's pandemic dashboard shows a total of 74 cases