This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Recovery houses and programs can be a significant help when battling opioid addictions at colleges. However, not many exist because colleges do not have the financing and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Naked Scientists blog discusses recent research from the UK that identifies an “impaired” part of the brain in children of obese mothers, one that fails…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • State prisons are not covering the cost of treatment for prisoners who have hepatitis C, which is potentially curable now. Some inmates are filing lawsuits against prisons on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · A new RAND Corporation study shows the benefits of allowing pharmacists to administer naloxone, the opioid antidote, without a physician’s prescription. States that have already adopted this law…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for PSI, Miles Kemplay of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation discusses the rise of self-care in healthcare and how it shifts power to the hands of consumers. ·…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Christensen Institute, Jessica Plante highlights the importance of population health management and how it can be leveraged to reduce the burden of chronic disease.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · A new RAND Corporation study examining the usage of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine products together has produced negative results; young adults exhibited lower functionality and more problematic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Christensen Institute discusses the high cost of hospital care and the benefits behind making homes and communities the default location for healthcare. · How do the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers identified substantial biological differences among cognitively defined subgroups of Alzheimer’s patients, which scientists think will help create a precision medicine approach to treat the disease. •…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Tiny Spark podcast, experts explore how a toxic culture damaged the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • PSI is committed to a youth-powered movement toward healthcare that honors and elevates young peoples’ insights on health solutions. • PSI explains that there are challenges in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review reports on new strategies when it comes to healthy eating research, citing that policy, systems, and environmental change all factor in. • How…