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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Many organizations are looking at effective ways to communicate the importance of wearing a mask, especially as highly transmissible new strains of coronavirus threaten to cause a surge in infections.
Their findings, described in a study published in December in the
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, give public health experts, leaders and communicators critical insight to craft messaging that could potentially increase mask usage during the pandemic. As science evolved during the pandemic, it became clear wearing masks was going to be a critical step, said Allison Lazard, associate professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. But there just isn t much out there for evidence-based messaging, especially not for what might motivate people to wear face coverings.
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Milestone Achieved: 500 Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Procedures at WakeMed Cary Hospital
January 21, 2021 GMT
CARY, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 21, 2021
Today, gastroenterologist Christopher McGowan, M.D., of True You Weight Loss in Cary, NC, performed his 500 th Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty at the Advanced Gastrointestinal Center at WakeMed Cary Hospital, making him the first and only physician in the country to reach this milestone.
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Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, commonly referred to as ESG, is a non-surgical, incisionless procedure that allows a gastroenterologist to use endoscopic suturing to reduce the overall size of the stomach to promote weight loss. Offering comparable results to bariatric surgery with zero cutting, the ESG procedure lasts about 40 minutes, and patients can lose up to 100 pounds or more, or approximately 20 percent of their total body weight.
A group of students at Temple University coped with Trump’s inauguration by waving their phone flashlights in the air and singing “This Little Light of Mine.”
I didn’t do any of those things yesterday. I didn’t even consider doing them. I didn’t wake up yesterday morning with a sense of dread and despair. In fact, I didn’t think about it being Inauguration Day until I opened Twitter. I had a pretty normal, fulfilling Wednesday.
It’s not that I don’t care about the presidency. I’m a government major, a political news reporter, and a former intern in the Trump White House, living an hour from Washington, D.C. But having a president with whom I passionately disagree even a president whose plans and policies I find alarming didn’t keep me from functioning as an adult either.
Lilly's announcement Thursday comes as the disease continues to hit hard in U.S. nursing homes, accounting for more than 100,000 deaths of residents and staff over the course of the pandemic.