Practicing for her people
Robeson County, North Carolina, ranks dead last among the Tar Heel State’s 100 counties for health outcomes and health factors like smoking and obesity. Diabetes, cancer, poverty and a lack of local medical specialists make it hard for the rural county’s...
Exploring the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health challenges at South by Southwest
Creative. Driven. Caffeine-fueled. Those are just some of the adjectives that describe entrepreneurs. But there are others that few people talk about, including depressed, anxious and...
4 revenue sources to explore for your primary care practice
Ancillary services have long been a popular way to increase revenue for physician practices. In fact, 82% of practices offer at least one ancillary service.1 Such services account for 11% of revenue for both internal and family medicine practices, according...
Keys to success
Juilliard-trained concert pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks (Eagle Class of 2000) has played Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Seoul Arts Center and other top performance spaces. But one of his favorite venues lies far from New York, Washington or his Santa Barbara...
Super Scouters!
It’s a bird … It’s a plane … It’s Super Scouter! These eight volunteers find time for Scouting, family and a whole lot more—and you can, too. Whether your Scouting role requires an hour per week or an hour per week per Scout, finding enough time...
Flu fighters: How flu vaccines and workplace hygiene can benefit you and your workers
Are you a comfort giver or a flu giver? That’s the question the UK’s South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust recently posed in a series of advertisements targeting its employees. In one advert, an elderly woman reaches out to a nurse, who...
What US trial sponsors should know about the GDPR
U.S. life sciences companies that conduct trials in Europe must deal with more than language nuances and time-zone differences. They must also comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This bedrock privacy regulation controls the use of all...
Serving their country
Some 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during World War II. Among them were countless Eagle Scouts who waded ashore on D-Day, endured the Bataan Death March, and island-hopped across the Pacific. Others worked behind the lines, organizing...