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National survey reveals key barriers and opportunities in school-based diabetes care

SAGE
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new national survey of over 580 school nurses and diabetes healthcare providers has revealed critical barriers to implementing the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Diabetes Medical Management Plan (DMMP) in schools. While the DMMP is widely recognized as a comprehensive tool, respondents identified key usability issues—including integration into clinical workflows and gaps in guidance for modern diabetes technologies like continuous glucose monitors and automated insulin delivery systems. These findings informed major revisions to the DMMP to better support school nurses and improve care for children with diabetes nationwide.

Journal: The Journal of School Nursing

Charisma Virtual Social Coaching named a finalist for Global Innovation Award

Center for BrainHealth
Grant and Award Announcement

Center for BrainHealth® at The University of Texas at Dallas is proud to announce that one of its flagship programs, Charisma™ Virtual Social Coaching, has been selected as a Top 3 Finalist for the 2025 Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI) Innovation Award in the category of Most Innovative Project – Social Sector/Non-Profit. GIMI is the world’s largest certifying body and professional organization for innovation and innovation management. The Innovation Awards recognize projects that demonstrate exceptional creativity, measurable impact and scalable solutions across public, private and social sectors. With ten award categories, the competition showcases innovations from around the globe. Charisma was selected for its novelty as the first platform to integrate real-time social-emotional coaching, immersive role-play and real-time data tracking into one end-to-end digital solution.

Illinois family shares tragedy of losing son to necrotizing enterocolitis, as NEC Society prepares for the NEC Symposium in Chicago

Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society
Meeting Announcement

The NEC Symposium is the world's largest meeting dedicated to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is a devastating intestinal disease that can affect premature and medically fragile infants in their first weeks and months of life. Every year in the United States, thousands of babies are diagnosed with NEC, and at least one baby dies from NEC every day. The NEC Society's tireless work confronts this by advancing research, education, and advocacy for a world without NEC. Join us at NECsociety.org/NEC-symposium

Meeting: NEC Symposium

Only 37% of US states require sexual education in schools to be medically accurate

Boston University School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While 42 states require public school students to take a sexual education course that covers at least one topic within this subject between kindergarten and high school, only 19 states mandate that this instruction be medically accurate—and 5 of those states only require medical accuracy for specific topics, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. The study also found that 34 states that mandate sexual education in public schools require instruction on abstinence, a method that has consistently proven to be ineffective or harmful to adolescent sexual health, but continues to be embraced and funded by the federal government. Thirty-four states also allow parents to opt their children out of receiving any sexual education instruction, while five states require parents to opt in for their children to receive this instruction.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health
Funder: National Institute of Mental Health

NUS Medicine establishes Ellen Siow Professorship in Neurosurgery to advance neuro-oncology research

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) announced the establishment of the Ellen Siow Professorship in Neurosurgery in a tribute to the life and legacy of Ellen Siow and her family’s enduring commitment to medical research, education, and philanthropy.

Restoring trust in government and institutions may influence pandemic decision making

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how the same health information affects the behavior of individuals differently. A recent study revealed cultural differences in how people respond to hypothetical COVID-19 infection information at the local level. The analysis also found differences in how individual subgroups react differently to pandemic information.

Journal: Data Science Journal
Funder: Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Restoring trust in government and institutions may influence pandemic decision making

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how the same health information affects the behavior of individuals differently. A recent study revealed cultural differences in how people respond to hypothetical COVID-19 infection information at the local level. The analysis also found differences in how individual subgroups react differently to pandemic information.

Journal: Data Science Journal
Funder: Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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