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The Youth Mental Health Project, in an Effort to Bring Awareness to the Youth...
SILVER SPRING, Md. - October 13, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
The Youth Mental Health Project (YMHP), a national nonprofit dedicated to addressing the mental health crisis among young people, will offer a free online screening of NO LETTING GO on Oct. 26, 2022 at 7 pm (ET). The screening is part of a year-long campaign to raise awareness of the youth mental health crisis and the importance of early intervention. Registration to attend the screening is available here.
The viewing event will also include a talk with screenwriter and The Youth Mental Health Founder, Randi Silverman, whose family story is highlighted in the film, along with Emmy-nominated actress Cheryl Allison, who portrays Silverman in the film.
Earlier this year, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared a national advisory on the youth mental health crisis, while in 2021 the CDC reported that 37% of high school students struggled with their mental health and 44% felt persistently sad and hopeless.
No Letting Go shines a very personal light on the devastating impacts of the childhood mental health crisis in an effort to create community conversations, end the silence caused by blame and shame, build awareness and understanding, and let families know they are not alone.
"The film is about one family's experience raising a child with a mental health condition, but it is the story of millions of families across the country," said Reggie Williams, Co-Chair of The Youth Mental Health Project Board. "We hope that audiences will gain an understanding of what individuals with mental health conditions and their families experience as they navigate school and work in their communities."
The Youth Mental Health's Project's mission is to educate, empower and support families and communities to better understand and care for the mental health of our youth. YMHP is the only national organization devoted solely to the needs of parents of children ages 0 to 25 with the full range of concerns about their child's mental health, from a sense that their child might be struggling to serious mental health diagnoses (e.g., bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) and suicidal ideation. To learn more, visit their website http://ymhproject.org.
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Original Source: The Youth Mental Health Project, in an Effort to Bring Awareness to the Youth Mental Health Crisis, Offers Its First Free Screening of the Award-Winning Film, NO LETTING GO
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UroViu Corp Secures Medical Equipment ECAT Contract for VA DoD Purchasing
LOS ALTOS, Calif. - October 13, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
UroViu Corp, a company that develops and commercializes highly portable single-use endoscopy platforms, announced today that it has been added to the US Defense Logistics Agency's Medical Equipment ECAT. With a contract secured through Fidelis Sustainability Distribution, Veterans will now have access to the latest endoscopy products on the market.
Under the agreement, UroViu will sell its entire product line at a contracted price for distribution exclusively through Fidelis to over 1,200 VA and DOD healthcare facilities throughout the United States that serve 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.
"Urology is the second most common indication by procedure volume in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) representing a large market for UroViu," said Sebastien Cadet, Chief Commercial Officer of UroViu Corp. "ECAT is the most convenient and cost-effective way to deliver our products to all government facilities. It is with great pride we can now efficiently support our Veterans."
Single-use endoscopy is a safer and more reliable alternative to traditional reusable scopes which must be cleaned, disinfected, and sanitized after every use. The difficulty of servicing traditional scopes has led to FDA scrutiny due to cross-contamination risks. UroViu's single-use scopes eliminate those risks. The single-use platform ranges from a 12-Fr diagnostic semi-rigid cystoscope and equivalent hysteroscope, a 14-Fr injection cystoscope with an integrated needle for drug delivery, to a flexible, deflectable, and rotatable 16.5-Fr cystoscope have the potential to help any government facilities improve care and efficiency.
"Fidelis' SDVDSB status provides UroViu with preferential access to secure VHA and DOD contracts," said Joel Kohn, President of Fidelis Sustainability Distribution, LLC. "More importantly, we help streamline the procurement process thus accelerating the delivery of cutting-edge technologies such as UroViu's single-use endoscopes that our Veterans deserve."
About UroViu Corporation
UroViu Corporation's mission is to revolutionize the endoscopy platform for improved patient care and provider efficiency with operations in California and Washington and production facilities in Asia. UroViu is the developer of the always-ready cystoscopy & hysteroscopy platforms, the highly portable, self-contained, and versatile single-use endoscopy solution to meet the needs of Urologists, UroGynecologists, and Gynecologists. The unique portable platform and product suite are protected by a portfolio of 20+ patents granted worldwide and many more pending patents. UroViu's vision is to simplify the scope of patient care. For more information please visit www.uroviu.com.
About Fidelis Sustainability Distribution
Fidelis Sustainability Distribution, LLC, (FSD) is a Nevada-based, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) focused on helping streamline the acquisition of medical/dental technology in US Government facilities. Our firsthand industry experience of how technology moves from concept to commercialization and through healthcare supply chains enables us to support our manufacturing partners and Government customers alike at the highest level. Since 2014, FSD has secured over $80M+ in positive past performance and is dedicated to serving all major Federal Healthcare facilities including 170+ VAMC's, 1,000+ CBOC's,150+ DOD Medical Facilities, and Health and Human Services (HHS).
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TODAY: Gb Sciences’ President Demonstrates Effectiveness of Simplified Therapeutic Mixtures Inspired by Cannabis Plant...
Dr. Andrea Small-Howard, President and Chief Science Officer of Gb Sciences (OTCQB:GBLX), a leading plant-inspired, biopharmaceutical research and drug development company, is demonstrating the potential efficacy of their proprietary cannabis-inspired mixtures today at the Canna Pharma 2022 Conference in San Diego, California. Dr. Small-Howard explains Gb Sciences' novel process for developing disease-specific, cannabinoid therapeutics in her presentation entitled "Case Studies: Identification of Minimum Essential Therapeutic Mixtures from Cannabis Plant Extracts by Screening in Cell and Animal Models." Gb Sciences' case studies include scientific evidence demonstrating the potential efficacy of their cannabinoid-based therapeutic mixtures designed to treat Parkinson's disease, chronic pain, or inflammation using their novel minimal essential mixture approach.
"Medicinal cannabis has shown great promise for the symptomatic treatment of many serious human disorders, but concerns around safety, consistency, legality, psychoactivity, and non-standardized routes of delivery, such as smoking and vaping, have slowed the adoption of the use of medical cannabis within traditional, physician-guided patient treatment programs. To address these challenges, we hypothesized that within Cannabis plant extracts, there would be a minimal essential mixture of compounds that preserves whole plant benefits, but with the manufacturing, quality control, and regulatory benefits of single ingredient therapies," said Dr. Andrea Small-Howard.
Minimal essential mixtures (MEM) is a term Gb Sciences has coined from their proprietary research after deeming that a simplified mixture represented a happy medium between whole plant medicines and single ingredient drugs. Minimum Essential Mixtures are designed to retain increased therapeutic effectiveness from molecular synergies within the original plant extracts, but with the manufacturing efficiencies, quality assurances, and regulatory advantages of single ingredient drugs. Gb Sciences' disease-specific MEM are produced for clinical evaluation using synthetic homologs of cannabis-based ingredients incorporated into sophisticated oral delivery modalities including Oral Dissolving Tablets (ODT), Oral Thin Films (OTF), time-released oral nanoparticles, and gel capsules to increase the stability, bioavailability, and ease-of-use of these ingredients relative to the non-standardized delivery methods used for Cannabis plant extracts.
Gb Sciences was recently published in Pharma's Almanac discussing the strategy behind their plant-inspired minimum essential mixtures, which provides context for the case studies being presented today.
To learn more about Gb Sciences, visit www.gbsciences.com.
About Gb Sciences and GbS Global Biopharma
Gb Sciences, Inc. is a plant-inspired, biopharmaceutical research and development company creating patented, disease-targeted formulations of cannabis- and other plant-inspired therapeutic mixtures for the prescription drug market through its Canadian subsidiary, GbS Global Biopharma, Inc. The 'plant-inspired' active ingredients in its therapeutic mixtures are synthetic homologues identical to the original plant compounds but produced under current Good Manufacturing Practices. Gb Sciences' intellectual property portfolio contains six issued U.S. and three issued foreign patents, as well as 17 U.S. and 51 foreign patent-pending applications. In its drug development pipeline, Gb Sciences has five preclinical phase product development programs. Gb Sciences' lead program for Parkinson's disease is being prepared for a first-in-human clinical trial. Gb Sciences' formulations for chronic pain, anxiety, and depression are currently in preclinical animal studies with researchers at the National Research Council Canada. The company also received positive preclinical proof-of-concept data supporting its complex mixtures for the treatment of Cytokine Release Syndrome and its lead candidates will be optimized based on late-stage preclinical studies at Michigan State University. Gb Sciences' productive research and development network includes distinguished universities, hospitals, and Contract Research Organizations. To learn more, visit www.gbsciences.com.
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RiverSpring Living’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale Announces Major Focus on Augmented and Virtual Reality...
Hebrew Home at Riverdale Launches Virtual Reality Program
Residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale are experiencing the wonder and excitement of virtual reality in a new expansive technology initiative.
RiverSpring Living's Hebrew Home at Riverdale, the iconic Bronx-based long-term care community, announced today a major push into technology with an expansive augmented and virtual reality initiative for its 600+ residents.
Residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale are experiencing a new virtual reality program through a partnership with Boston-based Rendever. Rendever, a leading provider of virtual reality services to the healthcare industry, has created a custom VR experience for the Hebrew Home community, transporting older adults around the world.
This VR effort is making the impossible possible. The limitations of age and physical fragility, in addition to the impact of COVID, has reduced and, in many cases, prevented residents of the Hebrew Home from traveling outside of the campus. Virtual reality has opened the doors of possibility to change that.
This technology is being used in a variety of initiatives:
Globetrotting Near and Far
Residents are being transported to the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and to the neighborhoods where they grew up. Because of technology, there is no limitation to where and when they can explore.
Attending Family Gatherings … Virtually
The Hebrew Home is equipping family members of its long-term care residents with GoPro cameras to film weddings, graduations, little league games and other important family events and gatherings.
Footage is uploaded to the VR headsets and shared with residents. Trained therapists work with residents, talking about the meaning of the family event, how they feel, and memories of spending time with them when they were younger.
Easing the Agitation of Dementia
Preliminary usage of VR at the Hebrew Home indicates that residents suffering from early stages of dementia are engaged and demonstrate increased attention and decreased agitation when using VR headsets that display family or calming images.
Preparing for Home After Rehab
Families of rehab patients are provided GoPro cameras to film each room in the home. These videos are uploaded to a virtual reality headset so that the patient can virtually walk through each room. Therapists can see the room on an accompanying iPad, helping the patient navigate. If changes need to be made — such as removing rugs to prevent falls, opening more space between a couch and table for a walker or wheelchair to get through, the therapist provides feedback before the patient heads home.
Augmented and virtual reality is creating worlds to see and meet people beyond the Hebrew Home's Riverdale campus. With this new technology initiative, Hebrew Home residents are just a headset away from endless possibilities.
About RiverSpring Living
RiverSpring Living, backed by over 100 years of top-rated service as the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, provides progressive care to over 18,000 older adults of all faiths through compassionate care and vibrant community engagement, and is guided by Jewish values and a non-profit mission that advocates and celebrates a vision of empowered aging.
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