Pandemic Updates

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Childhood Obesity and the Pandemic

Maria Milla, MD, Section Chief, Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Care Centers discusses the talk of the increase in childhood obesity due to increased anxi...

Feb 21, 2021 3 min read
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Impact of Pandemic on Cancer Care

There has been a drastic drop in breast and colorectal cancer screenings.  Hospitals that are overrun and overwhelmed have prolonged and, in many cases...

Feb 7, 2021 3 min read
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Children’s Book to Open Dialogue on Pandemic

Author, Jill Rosensweig, discusses her new children’s book “Bailey Bloom and the Battle of the Bug”, (July 2020) which just received the 2020 Gold Mom’s...

Oct 12, 2020 3 min read
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Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dennis Hruby, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at SIGA Technologies, Inc., discusses lessons we are currently learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and whe...

Aug 17, 2020 3 min read
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Mental health during a pandemic

William Kassler, Deputy Health Officer, and Lead Population Health Officer, at IBM Watson Health, discusses his recently published perspective "Protecti...

Apr 18, 2020 4 min read