Arkansas State

Little Rock, AR

Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) in Little Rock has announced a $1 million grant from the East North Street Foundation. The grant from the foundation—launched in May by local businessmen, brothers David and Doug Hendrix—will bolster ACH’s $235.2 million expansion, which includes new facilities with increased bed capacity and an ambulatory surgery center. The revitalized campus will provide clinical care that leverages a multidisciplinary approach in an accessibility-focused environment. The expansion is slated for completion in 2026.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital receives $1 million for expansion project

Colorado State

The Colorado Health Foundation, in collaboration with Think Equity, has issued a request for applications to help build the capacity of Colorado’s primary care safety net clinics to engage in deep diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work to advance health equity through the lens of racial equity. The Clinics...

Colorado Health Foundation, Think Equity invite applications for Clinics Advancing Health Equity: A Team Approach initiative

The Ford and Andrew W. Mellon foundations have announced the 2024 cohort of Disability Futures Fellows. Launched in 2020 and administered by United States Artists, the program aims to increase the visibility of disabled creative practitioners across disciplines and geography and elevate their voices individually and collectively. Twenty artists were selected to receive unrestricted grants of $50,000 each, totaling $1 million for the cohort.

Ford, Mellon foundations announce 2024 Disability Futures Fellows

Data-handling and data-sharing are an essential part of the research endeavor, yet most trainees learn how to do it through trial and error. Before I went to graduate school, I worked at a contract research organization supporting data management and sharing for clinical trials across the United States. I anticipated that all I had learned in that highly standardized environment would give me a leg up, but I was shocked to find that formal graduate school education completely left out essential basic concepts, such as data validation, metadata and stable file formats.

Neuroscience graduate students deserve comprehensive data-literacy education

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Thomas Smith

Spotting a few bugs in the house is typically a nuisance, but there's one in particular that should ring alarm bells for homeowners. If you come across the bug in the photo above, it's time to call in a professional.

Study This Photo--If You Find This Bug In Your House, You Need To Call in a Pro

Fortune

Bosses have tried everything to convince staff they’ll be happier working in the office than at home, from free lunches to subsidized commutes. When that hasn’t worked, they’ve tried putting their foot down. Now, exasperated employers want to know what makes their workers tick. Neil Murray, CEO...

Businesses are using ‘sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists’ to work out how to get staff back to the office

The Associated Press

PARIS-SACLAY, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 18, 2024-- RegenLab, a pioneering biotechnology company specializing in the research, and manufacturing of patented cell and tissue engineering medical devices, has been honoured with the “Innovation Champion Award” by the European Investment Bank (EIB) at the Adventure Debt Summit held at the European Convention Center in Luxembourg. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240716529298/en/ Antoine Turzi receives EU-EIB Innovation Champion Award. Antoine Turzi, Founder and President of RegenLab, pictured between two officials of the European Investment Bank. (Photo: Business Wire)

Antoine Turzi, Founder & President of RegenLab group, Receives Prestigious EIB Innovation Champion Award

Washington State

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Mill Creek, WA

Timothy A Gruver

The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries reported on Wednesday that it fined four roofing contractors more than a million dollars for letting their workers perform on top of homes without fall protection gear, among other safety violations.

Roofing Companies Fined $1.27M for Endangering Workers

Charlottesville, VA

Biomedical engineering professor Silvia Salinas Blemker is revolutionizing healthcare through her innovative approaches to precision medicine. Her work at the University of Virginia has led to groundbreaking advancements in musculoskeletal modeling research, including collaborations with the National Football League to study hamstring injuries and simulations of estrogen levels on muscle regeneration.

UVA Professor Wins Award for Precision Medicine Breakthroughs

California State

The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

CHARLESTON, S.C., July 16, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Paradigm BioDevices, Inc. announces the launch of VisiCORE, a new bone graft harvesting system for foot and ankle fusion surgeries designed with a clear collection tube with proprietary Graft Retention Technology (GRT)™. The system permits users to see bone graft harvests in real-time, minimizes bone graft loss during collection, reduces the number of passes required to obtain adequate bone graft, and decreases donor site defect.

Paradigm BioDevices Launches VisiCORE ™ – The Clear Choice in Bone Graft Harvesting

The Residential Systems 2024 Custom Distributor Guide is now available. Hear from executives at major CI distribution companies including BlackWire Designs, PowerHouse Alliance, ADI Global Distribution, and Snap One about the current trends affecting the industry. Plus, an in-depth look at BlackWire Designs and the services and products it offers.

The Residential Systems 2024 Custom Distributor Guide is Now Available

Despite an FDA green light for the use of animal testing alternatives in drug development, regulatory concerns may be keeping the industry from embracing them, data collected by the R&D organization Pistoia Alliance suggests. In a July 11 press release, the nonprofit claimed that a survey of 350 life sciences...

Regulation concerns keep non-animal models out of R&D: survey

Caroline Shleifer is the founder and CEO of RegASK, the global, AI-driven solution for curated regulatory intelligence. She has a PharmD-PhD in Medical Physics and is a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of healthcare, law, and regulatory affairs. We were delighted to speak to her as one of our Women in Science to find more about her journey to get where she is now and what she learnt along the way.

Caroline Shleifer on founding RegASK and her journey in science and regulatory affairs

Denver, CO

David Heitz

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has become nationally known for moving more than 1,600 homeless people indoors since he has become mayor. Now he wants to place 200 people struggling with mental illness and/or addiction into treatment, according to an upcoming City Council committee agenda.

Denver mayor to send 200 people experiencing homeless to treatment

Long-time readers of this blog will know that I’ve been wanting a 3D printer for over a decade. So, what’s stopping me from buying one? Sure, I don’t really have room for it in my workshop, but that’s never stopped me from investing in bulky, single-use tools. True, I don’t have a need for one, although I would say having the ability to print unique action figures at will counts as a need. What’s really holding me back from opening my wallet and taking the leap is the speed of innovation within the additive manufacturing sphere. Every time I check my email, there’s a new announcement illustrating how 3D printing is getting better, faster, and more precise. In a crossover episode that even I wasn’t expecting, 3D printing is now being outfitted with laser technology to produce multi-material, multi-layered structures.

3D printer + laser = next step in additive manufacturing innovation

Online 3D printing service provider Sculpteo has achieved ISO 13485 certification, an accomplishment that will help support the company's efforts to inccrease its healthcare sector presence. Awarded by the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), the certification covers class I and class IIa medical products. ISO 13485 defines the requirements...

ISO 13485 Certification Granted to Sculpteo

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

The European scientific project HumanIC, in which Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is participating, aims to create a new approach to the environmental design of hospitals through the concept of human-centered indoor climate. Instead of the traditional approach of focusing solely on the building and its ventilation and heating systems, this network will develop new approaches to integrate the multi-dynamic interaction between pollution sources and airflow distribution systems with the clinical, patient and energy needs of the hospital environment.

Research on human-centered indoor climate for health centers

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

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Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation invites applications for New Investigator Grant

Founded in 1955, the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization committed to improving patients’ lives by funding musculoskeletal research that advances...

Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation invites applications for New Investigator Grant

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