By Steve Smith
Following up to my blog post of March 2022, let’s take another look at elder abuse and, more specifically, financial abuse of a particularly vulnerable demographic – elderly nursing...
Posted August 30, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
When Martin Trapecar, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, established The Laboratory of...
Posted August 23, 2022
By Steve Smith
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, social media platforms have been the most effective vehicles used by spreaders of medical misinformation (MMI).
As reported by Sheera Frenkel of The...
Posted August 21, 2022
By The CCM Team
In a large, diverse study of nearly 7,000 U.S. adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and colleagues describe the impact of common social disparities that are often linked to race and...
Posted August 18, 2022
By Steve Smith
Looking back on the past two years of our COVID-19 “new normal” it is clear that medical misinformation has been one of the most stubborn obstacles to stopping the spread of COVID-19 or...
Posted August 12, 2022
By Steve Smith
As I participated in a social media content management webinar recently, a comment from the moderator came as such a shock to me that I could hardly believe my ears. What did I hear that was such...
Posted July 25, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
Childhood asthma is an increasingly common respiratory condition involving chronic inflammation in the lungs. Inflammation from asthma can cause airways to close, bringing on constant...
Posted July 18, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is a common infant postural deformity of the neck evident at birth or shortly after. CMT causes the infant’s head to tilt to one side while the neck is...
Posted July 07, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most alarming and confounding aspects of the complex SARS-CoV-2 virus has been that people who become seriously ill with COVID-19, including...
Posted June 21, 2022
By Steve Smith
I’ve been seeing some discouraging comments lately about nonprofit annual reports. More specifically, that the typical nonprofit AR hardly gets read. Could this be true?
If...
Posted June 08, 2022
By Steve Smith
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the ACE (AIDS Care & Education) program is a jewel in the crown of Lutheran Social Services (LSS) of Northeast Florida. Serving more than 1,200 clients...
Posted May 31, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
May has been designated “National Healthy Vision Month.” A good way to mark the occasion may be by taking a “look” at a serious but silent threat to your vision, especial if...
Posted April 29, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
In 2021, San Diego-based Scripps Health suffered a cyberattack that forced them to take a portion of their information technology (IT) system offline for several weeks. The hackers stole the health...
Posted April 21, 2022
By Randolph Fillmore
Efforts in planning treatments and evaluating the prognosis for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients may have taken a leap forward thanks to a recent study carried out by a Johns Hopkins All...
Posted April 05, 2022
By Steve Smith
According to the FTC, Americans lost $637 million to COVID-19 scams. Many of them were likely elderly. That’s one of the useful facts in a recent AARP editorial that describes how those being...
Posted March 21, 2022
