Operation Cover Up reveals generous hearts
Beebe Healthcare representatives (l-r) Tom Protack, Diane Barlow, Bruce Leshine and Mark Loukides celebrate Operation Cover Up’s generous donation with OCU coordinator Laurel Goldsmith, and members Maureen Gerrity, Marilyn Geiger and Emily Blair. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Diane Barlow January 26, 2021
Last spring, when Laurel Goldsmith began hearing stories on national media outlets that healthcare workers in some parts of the country were short on personal protective equipment, she began to wonder, “What can we as a community do to help our local healthcare system?”
She reached out through the volunteer link on Beebe Healthcare’s website and sent an email about volunteering to help with mask making. Kim Blanch, RN, from Beebe Population Health replied to Goldsmith’s inquiry, letting her know that a mask similar to an N-95 mask was being designed by Pam Smith, RN, of Lewes. The 3-layer mask had a pocket designed to hold filter
AP Hockey Writer
Brooke Stacey of the Buffalo Beauts handles the puck in an outdoor hockey game against the Metropolitan Riveters on Dec. 28, 2019, in Buffalo. Stacey, originally from Kahnawake, Quebec, gave birth to a baby boy last summer but is returning to the ice for the National Womenâs Hockey League bubble season that begins today in Lake Placid.
(Provided photo â Michael Hetzel) Tyler Tumminia has lost plenty of sleep trying to get the National Women’s Hockey League back on the ice. But now the interim commissioner has had her last night left to toss and turn. The NWHL goes full bubble hockey today when its two-week sprint of a season begins in a quarantined environment in Lake Placid.
Why we need to educate teenagers about HPV and vaccines
Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021
16:00 For the first time in Ireland, HPV vaccines were offered in 2019 to both all girls and boys in the first year of secondary school . Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Opinion: such a programme would reduce HPV-associated cancers and help teenagers protect their future health
As a population, we are generally aware of the strong association between Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer, but did you know that HPV causes up to 70% of oropharyngeal cancers in developed countries? Remarkably, these cancers, which occur in the throat, are increasing rapidly in western countries and occur mostly in men rather than women. HPV is also strongly associated with various other cancers including cancers of the mouth, vagina, vulva, anus and penis.