Guest: Lucas Litewka

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: As a Senior Medical Scientist, Lucas worked on a broad portfolio of clinical neurological...

Guest: Michael Hough

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: As the General Manager of Advance Medical North America, Mike Hough oversees all business op...

Guest: Jonathan Killion

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Jonathan Killion is a managing director at Carl Marks Advisors and has nearly 10 years of...

Guest: Dr. Greg Sommer

Guest Bio: Greg Sommer, PhD is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Sandstone Diagnostics, a Bay Area, California ...

Overview

• Australia is in the grip of the worst flu outbreak on record and experts are urging people to have a flu vaccine now to prevent further spread of the disease. More than 70,000 cases of flu have been reported so far this year including a record breaking 30,000 cases last month.
• A new mental health support program has been established in New South Wales. The Connections program in Broken Hill provides opportunities for people with a mental illness to socialise with each other on weekends and some weeknights when most services are closed.
  
• South Australia’s new 2.3 billion dollar Royal Adelaide Hospital has treated its first patient, a 51-year-old man who received a donor kidney f...

Overview

• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and AmeriHealth of New Jersey are proposing higher premiums for the people of New Jersey who buy coverage in the federal health insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act.
• Suicides among US children under thirteen are rare, but perhaps more frequent than you think. The CDC says that from 1990 through 2015, 1,309 children ages 5 to 12 committed suicide in the United States. This means that one child under 13 died of suicide nearly every five days, on average, over those 17 years.
  
• According to a new study, American are drinking more and more. The prevalence of alcohol abuse disorders has risen nearly 50%. The study also ...