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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Accuray Incorporated (NASDAQ: ARAY) announced today that the registration dossier for the CNNC-Accuray joint venture Tomo® C radiation therapy system for the Type B market has been approved by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving ® (MADD) and Amica announced #KeepMePosted, a new campaign to promote well-being and prevent substance use among youth.
IRVING, Texas, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mothers Against Drunk Driving ® (MADD) and Amica announced #KeepMePosted, a new campaign to promote well-being and prevent substance use among youth. #KeepMePosted includes components for both young people and their parents, and is designed to combat underage drinking and other drug use. Each year in the U.S., underage drinking contributes to more than 4,300 deaths among people below the age of 21.
Part of MADD’s growing Power of You(th)® educational program, #KeepMePosted is inspired by Cheyenne, an 11th-grader from Arizona and the National Grand Prize winner of the 2023 MADD Power of You(th) Teen Video Contest. Cheyenne’s winning video featured a creative use of sticky notes to illustrate underage substance use’s cognitive and physical dangers. The #KeepMePosted campaign encourages teenagers to write their values and priorities on sticky notes as a reminder to make safe and healthy choices, particularly when it comes to alcohol and other drugs. It also focuses on the dangers of impaired driving, an urgent issue given that about 17% of high school students report that in the past 30 days, they rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol.
“Our video contest inspired us with the ways young people themselves are talking about healthy choices around underage drinking and other drug use – choices that can help keep everyone safe on and off the road. Now, we are amplifying that message through the #KeepMePosted campaign,” said MADD National President Tess Rowland. “We appreciate Amica’s ongoing support for MADD’s Power of You(th)® program, which has helped us reach over a million youth and young leaders like Cheyenne from coast to coast since its inception.”
“We all know the harmful effects of underage drinking and substance abuse, and the sad impact of bad choices when getting behind the wheel of an automobile,” says Paul Cullinane, Amica’s Strategic Partnership Manager. “Amica is pleased to continue its partnership with MADD and promote the safety and well-being of young people by giving them a tool to help take control of risky behavior. Also having elements of the program include parental involvement is a key to keeping teens safe.”
For more information about the Power of Youth, visit madd.org/powerofyouth.
About Amica
Amica is the longest-standing mutual insurer of automobiles in the U.S. A direct writer, Amica also offers home, life, marine and umbrella insurance, as well as annuities. Founded on principles of outstanding service, Amica creates peace of mind and builds enduring relationships with its customers. That mission is shared and supported by thousands of employees across the country. Visit Amica.com.
About Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nonprofit leader in a movement to create a world where there are #NoMoreVictims of impaired driving. By working in collaboration with law enforcement to end underage drinking and all drunk and drugged driving, MADD has helped reduce drunk driving deaths by more than 50%, saving more than 400,000 lives. The organization is a vocal advocate for tougher sentencing, new laws, and new technology, including the implementation of the Halt Act. MADD is focused on the prevention of underage drinking with educational programs for youth and parents. MADD also has provided supportive services to nearly one million victims of drunk and drugged driving at no charge through local victim advocates and its 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. For more information or to make a donation, visit us at https://madd.org/and follow MADD on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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Kim Pucci, MADD, 469.420.4526, [email protected], www.madd.org
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Glenn decided to leave the corporate world after 26 years to open her Caring Transitions location to have a flexible schedule to care for her mom. She understands firsthand the stress and troubles that come with moving a loved one because she’s done it three times with her own parent. After discovering Caring Transitions and their services through her franchise research, Glenn knew she had to expand access to them in the metroplex.
“I thought about all the other people that are in my situation when deciding to open this location; you’re not just going to say no to your mom or dad,” Glenn explained. “It’s a tough journey when transitioning a loved one, and I look forward to empathizing with our clients and providing them relief through the life change.”
Glenn and her family have been in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro for 24 years. Running the business is a family affair, with Glenn’s two daughters, Cameryn & Daryn helping and her husband Daryl managing the moving portion. She recognizes the large senior population and the demand for location, downsizing, and estate sale services in the area.
“The community should know they are in good hands with us,” Glenn said. “I’ve lived through similar experiences, making it easier for me to understand and assist our clients. Our end-to-end services offer families stress relief in a challenging time or even a space to grieve the loss of a loved one while we manage their estate,” says Glenn.
Caring Transitions of Carrollton serves Carrollton, Addison, Farmers Branch, and Dallas. The company currently has more than 280 franchise locations serving families nationwide.
“Many of our franchisees have personal experiences that make them deeply empathetic and effective in this line of work,” said Ray Fabik, president of Caring Transitions. “We’re thrilled to have Willette join our family of franchisees and bring her unique perspective and skills to serve the Carrollton community.”
To learn more about Caring Transitions, visit http://www.CaringTransitions.com.
For more about franchising opportunities with Caring Transitions, visit https://www.caringtransitionsfranchise.com/.‥
About Caring Transitions
Caring Transitions, founded in 2006, is the most trusted and experienced national franchise specializing in senior relocation and transition services. With more than 280 locations throughout the United States, all owned and operated by Certified Relocation and Transition Specialists, Caring Transitions provides clients with supportive moves, auctions, rightsizing, and transitions. This includes expert advice plus a well-executed transition plan beginning with the initial sorting of personal belongings through packing, unpacking, resettling, and selling of items to the final clearing and cleaning of the property. For more information, visit http://www.caringtransitions.com or visit us on Facebook.
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Mike Toper, 919 Marketing, (919) 813-6511, [email protected], 919marketing.com
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Supporters can visit Truly Free’s website here to learn more about the partnership and Truly Free’s “Green to Clean” campaign, make a direct donation to Cleaning for a Reason, and/or nominate a patient, family member, friend, co-worker, etc. for cleanings and Truly Free product.
“We are excited to welcome Truly Free as a dedicated partner in freeing cancer patient homes from harmful chemicals and toxins,” says Sandy Wolfrum, Director of Development at ISSA Charities. “Together, with your support, we can provide safe yet powerful cleaning products for cancer patients and their families, allowing them to focus on what truly matters – rest, healing, and quality time with loved ones during difficult times.”
For more information about Truly Free’s mission, products, or ingredients, visit www.trulyfreehome.com and follow along on Instagram and Facebook @trulyfreehome. For more information on Cleaning for a Reason, please visit cleaningforareason.org.
ABOUT TRULY FREE
Truly Free’s revolutionary cleaning products and monthly memberships help create a greener future, not just a clean home. Leveraging over 14 years of experience, Truly Free’s non-toxic formulas have freed over 280,000 homes from harmful chemicals and eliminated 7.8 million single-use plastics, helping protect families and the planet from exposure to harmful, toxic chemicals. Not only does Truly Free help make homes the cleanest clean can be, but consumer purchases support global give-back projects. To date, Truly Free has sold 150,000 Dryer Angels hand-made by women rescued from poverty and trafficking around the world, donating $500,000 in proceeds to their local communities. Named to Inc.’s Best in Business List in the E-Commerce category, thousands of Americans subscribe to popular top sellers Laundry Wash and Everyday Cleaner, available as Starter Kits or Refills monthly to make cleaning easy. For more information about the Truly Free team, products, or ingredients, visit www.trulyfreehome.com or follow along on Instagram @trulyfreehome and Facebook @trulyfreehome.
ABOUT CLEANING FOR A REASON
Cleaning for a Reason partners with over 1,200 residential cleaners to offer free house cleaning to households affected by cancer. Since 2006, the nonprofit and its partners have donated over $17 million in services, assisting more than 50,000 cancer patients. In 2017, Cleaning for a Reason became a part of ISSA Charities, the charitable arm of ISSA, the global cleaning industry association. To apply for services, become a cleaning partner, or support the work of Cleaning for a Reason, please visit cleaningforareason.org.
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Layla Harrison, Palmer Public, 1 3303013299, [email protected], https://palmerpublic.com
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The Washington Post releases an article on rise in liver disease.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Today, The Washington Post spotlights the alarming rise of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (also called NAFLD) in kids and how C15:0 may help transform the battle against this escalating global health crisis.
Pediatric NAFLD affects 1 in 10 children, leading to the progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and grave liver complications. Healthcare practitioners and researchers have been fervently searching for remedies, and today, the Washington Post’s reporting on Drs. Jeffrey Schwimmer and Stephanie Venn-Watson’s ongoing research offers a glimmer of hope through the use of C15:0 (pentadecanoic acid). This effort is particularly urgent given the lack of any FDA-approved treatments for NAFLD.
C15:0 (pentadecanoic acid, an odd-chain saturated fatty acid) is the first essential fatty acid to be discovered in 90 years, since omega-3. As reported in the Washington Post, Dr. Schwimmer first learned about C15:0 after reaching out to Dr. Venn-Watson, a veterinary epidemiologist who was studying fatty liver disease in US Navy dolphins. Using an advanced metabolomics technology, Dr. Venn-Watson discovered that increasing dolphins’ dietary intake of C15:0 effectively alleviated an underlying driver of NASH.
For the past 10 years, Drs. Schwimmer and Venn-Watson have been working in parallel to test the bold hypothesis that nutritional C15:0 deficiencies are causing NAFLD. In addition to her discovery of C15:0 as an essential fatty acid, Dr. Venn-Watson, co-founder of Seraphina Therapeutics, also showed that C15:0 has strong anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic (anti-cirrhosis) activities and targets key receptors (called PPAR-ɑ/̔), which have held promise in treating NAFLD. Her studies also demonstrated that daily treatment with pure C15:0 effectively attenuated NASH in a relevant model.
Meanwhile, in an extensive study including 237 children, Dr. Schwimmer showed that the higher a child’s circulating C15:0 levels, the less fat was present in that child’s liver. As head of Rady Children’s Hospital’s Fatty Liver Disease Clinic and a leader in pediatric NAFLD, Dr. Schwimmer recently completed a randomized, double blinded, and placebo controlled clinical trial to assess the ability of pure C15:0 supplementation to effectively raise C15:0 levels and affect physiological indices of metabolic and liver health.
Our primary dietary source of C15:0 is dairy fat, and declining intake of whole fat dairy products over the past 40 years has led to population wide decreases in C15:0 levels. Coincident with drastic reduction of C15:0 in diets, was the recognition of a disease called NAFLD. Over the past 10 years, NAFLD has risen in prevalence at an alarming rate, with a global increase from 1 in 4 people before 2005 to 1 in 3 people since 2016. NAFLD is quickly becoming the leading cause of liver cancer and liver transplants globally. Beyond Dr. Schwimmer’s research with children, multiple studies have linked lower C15:0 levels in adults to a higher risk of having NAFLD.
“Mounting evidence supports that nutritional C15:0 deficiencies may be driving the rise in NAFLD. While more work needs to be done, burgeoning hope lies in a relatively simple way to fix this global crisis, including among children,” said Dr. Venn-Watson.
The Washington Post article, entitled “Fatty liver was a disease of the old. Then kids started getting sick,” is part of an in-depth health series called, “Dying Early, America’s Life Expectancy Crisis: An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon.” Beyond NAFLD, voluminous research has shown that people with higher C15:0 levels are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancers.
This groundbreaking research underscores the profound role that fixing nutritional C15:0 deficiencies may play in stopping the epidemic of chronic diseases, including NAFLD. To learn more about the mounting science behind C15:0, please visit http://www.DiscoverC15.com.
About Seraphina Therapeutics. Inc.
Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc. is a health and wellness company dedicated to advancing global health through the discovery of essential fatty acids and micronutrient therapeutics. Through rigorous breakthrough science, the company develops fatty acid supplements, food fortifiers, and nutritional interventions to strengthen cells, keep mitochondria working and advance cellular homeostasis to counter age-related breakdown. With its team of industry-leading scientists, Seraphina Therapeutics challenges long-held approaches to nutrition, enabling the creation of novel health products designed to support quality of life. For more information, please visit DiscoverC15.com and fatty15.com.
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GR0 Agency, GR0, (310) 439-1887, [email protected], gr0.com
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Funding to Support Expanded Access to Whole-Child, Value-Based, Outcomes-Driven Autism Care SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cortica, the United States’ leading physician-led, whole-child, value-based autism services company, has raised $40 million in a Series D extension, bringing…
“We could not be more excited to bring our convenient delivery services to mushroom lovers in Orange County and San Diego,” said CEO of The Magic Mushroom Delivery. “Our mushroom products offer transformative wellness experiences, and we are committed to getting these remedies into the hands of all who can benefit from their magic.”
Enhancing Access to Magic Mushrooms
The newly launched delivery services from The Magic Mushroom Delivery aim to bring the healing benefits of magic mushrooms right to the doors of individuals in Orange County and San Diego. With an array of premium psilocybin products including microdose capsules, chocolate bars, gummies, and more, the company strives to provide convenient access to these natural remedies.
“We want to honor the sacred mushrooms by sharing their gifts with as many people as possible,” said CEO. “Our home delivery model breaks down barriers and allows us to meet people where they are, both physically and spiritually, on their unique wellness journeys.”
Looking Ahead
While the expansion into Orange County and San Diego represents a major milestone for The Magic Mushroom Delivery, the company views it as just the beginning. With the continued exponential growth projected for the magic mushroom market, The Magic Mushroom Delivery remains committed to exploring new opportunities and partnerships to expand its reach even further.
“This is an incredibly exciting time for plant medicines, and we are eager to spread the magic of mushrooms to all who need it,” remarked CEO. “We will continue innovating and pushing boundaries to fulfill our purpose of bringing consciousness expansion, creativity, inner peace and healing to communities across California and beyond.”
Get Started on Your Healing Journey
To explore The Magic Mushroom Delivery’s range of magic mushroom products, learn more about their sustainability initiatives, and access their convenient home delivery services now available in Orange County and San Diego, visit their website at www.themagicmushroomdelivery.com
Spread the healing magic today!
Press Release by Sienna Creative Digital
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Alexis Samuels, Sienna Creative Digital, 1 (800) 240-5574, [email protected], https://siennacreativedigital.com/
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To order, please visit https://healthliteracyinnovations.com/products/pricing and enter HLM in the promo box.
“Our vision is to create a health literate, jargon-free community for all health care consumers,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. “By availing more Health Literacy Advisor licenses and enhancing access to this tool, we are hoping to help more health communicators create plain language.”
About Health Literacy
The U.S health care system maintains one of the most sophisticated health care delivery systems in the world. However, in spite of the many advances in treatment and technology, a major barrier exists: Nearly half of all U.S. adults lack the skills necessary to read, understand, and act on their own health such as how to take their medications or understand basic health care instructions. This issue is known as low health literacy. Low health literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. An estimated 80 million Americans have low health literacy, which not only causes medical errors, high rates of hospitalization, death, and poor health care outcomes, but is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to $236 billion annually.
About Health Literacy Innovations
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to reduce medical mistakes, unnecessary health care costs, and poor health outcomes from low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (HLA) (in Spanish–Asesor de ComunicaciSn en Salud™), is a state-of-the-art interactive health literacy software tool available in multiple platforms, including a web-based model. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by leveraging powerful software to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. The uniquely-built HLA blends best-in-class features for plain language and health literacy compliance that include English and Spanish readability indices, an interactive plain language search-and-replace function, usability, and document assessment tools that reward users for good work, and more.
For more information, please visit http://www.healthliteracyinnovations.com, contact [email protected] or call 301-230-4966.
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April Charlee, Health Literacy Innovations, 1 3012304966, [email protected], https://healthliteracyinnovations.com/home.php
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INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — SmartBot360, the premier HIPAA-compliant chatbot software provider, is excited to announce its merger with KLaunch LLC, a subsidiary of the renowned global communications company, Kerauno. This strategic partnership marks a significant milestone…
Through its signature program, Digital Dividends, and its comprehensive approach to relieving isolation and loneliness among older adults, nonprofit LBFE Boston provides laptops, internet access, and computer instruction free of charge to older adults living in Boston public and affordable housing, necessities that millions of Americans are living without. Since its launch during the pandemic in 2021, Digital Dividends has doubled its program sites.
“LBFE Boston continues to expand our work supporting older adults, especially those who face economic and linguistic barriers, in accessing devices, internet connectivity, and training and support,” continued Wilkerson. “We’re proud to be part of efforts across Boston and Massachusetts to bridge the digital divide and to create a more equitable landscape for everyone.”
LBFE Boston extends an invitation to advocates, policymakers, community leaders, educators, researchers, media, press, and all committed to digital equity, to help make this Digital Inclusion Week a seminal moment in our ongoing efforts to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, income, or background, has the digital resources they need to fully participate in society.
For more information, please visit our website lbfeboston.org, or contact:
Jean DeMayo, Communications & Development Manager
LBFE Boston | Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly
[email protected]
617-524-8882
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