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BOSTON - The Community CAre Transitions (C-CAT) clinical trial, which paired community health workers (CHWs) with patients admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has found that fewer intervention group participants were readmitted within 30 days than control group participants. The effect was significant for those discharged to short-term rehabilitation but not for those discharged home. The study has been published in These results indicate that CHW interventions may help reduce hospital readmissions and improve preventive care among some clinically complex patients within an accountable care organization, says lead author and C-CAT trial principal investigator Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, a physician-scientist in the MGH Division of General Internal Medicine.
Monnaie de Paris Releases Coins and Medals to Commemorate the Smurfs
Pierre “Peyo” Culliford created
Smurfs–have since become famous across the world. Initially printed in the Belgian comics magazine
Spirou and viewed as secondary characters for Peyo’s other series
Johan & Pirlouit,
Hergé’s
The name “Schtroumpf” has a funny origin story.
One night, while eating dinner at a restaurant with a friend, Peyo meant to ask for his friend to pass the salt. But instead of saying “Passez-moi le sel” (“Give me the salt”), he said “Passez-moi le schtroumpf” (“Give me the Smurf”). This made-up word became an inside joke between the two men and was used quite often. As a result, Peyo knew just what to name his little blue creations. After several years, the Smurfs finally gained their first solo appearance in a 1959 mini-booklet known as “mini-récits”.
In reversing a Trump labor rule, Biden administration takes aim at âgig economyâ
By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff,Updated May 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
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A demonstration last October against Proposition 22, a ballot measure to exempt companies like Uber from state labor laws requiring them to treat gig workers as employees. Voters approved the measure in November.JIM WILSON/NYT
WASHINGTON â Tech companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart have disrupted the US economy by creating a labor force of millions of so-called gig workers. Now Washington appears poised to disrupt the disruptors, taking the first step Wednesday in what appears to be a larger battle with industry giants to give those workers more rights.
The Mystery of the Double-Headed Coins of Ancient Istros
Dobrudja coast of the
Black Sea. Situated approximately 300 miles north of
Byzantium, this small city was founded by Miletian traders around 657 or 656 BCE. As the oldest Greek colony on the Black Sea, Istros survived for some 14 centuries before its eventual abandonment in the mid-seventh century CE.
It is unsurprising, therefore, that such a long-lasting settlement would produce several interesting and important numismatic types. Known as the “initiator and main producer” of the distinctive cast bronze arrowhead proto-money in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, the Istrians used this currency to slowly built their city into a “busy commercial center”.
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