Around the nation: West Virginia offers truck, cash as rewards for vaccination
⋮
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) on Thursday announced plans for a new program to incentivize residents to get a Covid-19 vaccine, which will include a chance at an F-150 pickup truck, a college scholarship, and cash prizes, in today s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Ohio, Texas, and West Virginia.
Ohio:
Cleveland Clinic has named D. Geoffrey Vince as executive director of
Cleveland Clinic Innovations, where Vince will oversee the organization s technology development strategies. Vince is currently chair of the biomedical engineering department at Cleveland Clinic s
Vince, who was named to the role on an interim basis in December, will align Cleveland Clinic's technology development strategies with scientific and research priorities to accelerate discoveries of new treatments and drugs. Cleveland Clinic Innovations is the health system's commercial arm that works to turn medical breakthrough inventions into medical products.
COVID-19 and Sleep news-medical.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news-medical.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Regular Diet May Reverse Gut Immune Dysfunction from Western Diet
Source: Nadine Primeau/ Unsplash
May 21, 2021
A new study reported in the journal
Cell Host & Microbe unravels the mechanistic underpinnings between a western diet and inflammation in the gut. The findings provide novel insights into pathways linking obesity and disease-driving gut inflammation and identifies new molecular targets to treat inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in patients.
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, chair of Lerner Research Institute’s Department of Inflammation & Immunity at Cleveland Clinic
“We set out to investigate whether diet-induced obesity–specifically caused by a diet high in fat and sugar, or a ‘western diet’ is one of the environmental factors that can lead to impaired Paneth cell function,” says Cleveland Clinic’s Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, chair of Lerner Research Institute’s Department of Inflammation & Immunity.
Anthony Fauci appeared on CBS News on Tuesday night to discuss J&J
The CDC and FDA earlier on Tuesday called for a pause in use of the J&J vaccine
The CDC said that six people had suffered from blood clots after that vaccine
A woman in Virginia died on March 18 after being given J&J s vaccine March 6
More than 6.8 million people have received J&J s vaccine in the United States
Fauci said that women should be particularly alert to symptoms after the jab
The six with blood clots were all women, all aged from 18 to 48
The CDC is meeting on April 14 to review the evidence and reassess J&J