Lightways, Illinois largest not-for-profit provider of hospice and serious illness care, today announced the expansion of its pediatric program to include an additional eight staff members and 80 seriously ill children previously served by the recently-disbanded pediatric program at JourneyCare in Barrington.
Scientists from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science were able to create the world's first-ever "synthetic embryo" of a mice, complete with a beating heart and brain. The study has raised controversy over its potential use in other fields.
New research in JAMA suggests that serious illness and public health outcomes both benefit from linking spirituality to medicine. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association led by researchers from Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality says that most patients are spiritual and including spiritual considerations in medical treatment improves outcomes for those seriously ill and in public health. Community, not just religion, can be spiritual, Read about the impact on suicide, substance abuse, and depression, among others.
More than 780,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine would be made available on Friday, the Biden administration announced, amid fears that the government has not reacted swiftly enough to the country's rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.