Researchers at the University of Texas Dell Medical School have been trying to answer the question: How do you get more access to health care and social service resources for people experiencing homelessness in Austin?
One of Dell Medical School s previous studies of people experiencing homelessness found that one-third of people entering the health and human services system in Austin did not have a basic identity document.
Dr. Tim Mercer, director of the global health program in the medical school s population health department, works as an internal medicine doctor at CommUnityCare with the homeless population. It s a major issue. . I wouldn t have realized it if I was not there on the front lines, he said.
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Entrepreneurship brings a lot of freedom, responsibility, and risks, and before people commit to taking that big step there are several important questions they should ask themselves, says Tim Mercer, ForbesBooks author of Bootstrapped Millionaire: Defying the Odds of Business.
âEntrepreneurship is a career that offers a kind of freedom and personal satisfaction you simply cannot get from traditional 9-to-5 employment,â Mercer said. âYou will never know if you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur unless you take the leap of faith and experience it yourself.
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AUSTIN, Texas For people experiencing homelessness, missing proof of identity can be a major barrier to receiving critical services, from housing to food assistance to health care. Physical documents such as driver s licenses are highly susceptible to loss, theft or damage. However, researchers from Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin say new technology solutions such as blockchain can be used to keep important health care information secure and portable. Health care institutions and social services are so fragmented and siloed they re unable to accurately collect, share or verify basic identity information about a person experiencing homelessness, said Tim Mercer, M.D., MPH, director of the Global Health Program in the Department of Population Health at Dell Med and co-author of a new commentary published in the
Researchers have independently validated industry-leading blood tests that can detect the DNA released by tumours.
An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumour DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less invasive method to diagnose and monitor cancer.
The researchers revealed that all assays could reliably detect so-called circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) when it made up 0.5% of the total DNA in blood, a level of sensitivity that allows detection, genetic analysis and monitoring of late-stage and metastatic tumours.
Published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the study is a major milestone for the use of ctDNA assays as cancer diagnostics, outlining best-practice guidelines and uncovering key areas of future development.