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Employee COVID-19 Self-Screening checklist now included in Timesheet Mobile’s Time Clock App

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COVID-19 Employee Self-Screening build into Employee Time Clock App

Employee COVID-19 Self-Screening

Having an automated COVID-19 safety screening process makes it easier to attract and retain employees and customers.


WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (PRWEB)

Timesheet Mobile, a leader in geofence employee time tracking and workforce management, announced today that their employee time clock app now allows businesses to screen workers for COVID-19 and block them from punching in if they have COVID-19 symptoms or have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19.

Included in all subscription plans and immediately available at no extra cost, Timesheet Mobile’s time clock app includes the COVID-19 Self-Screening option in the Employee Punch Settings. The app requires employees to affirmatively answer the default or custom screening questions in order to punch into a shift. If they fail the self-screen they cannot punch in and an alert is sent to their manager. The time and place of the failure are also recorded so employers can perform contact tracing and alert other employees who were in close contact with the employee.

Employers need to have a game plan on how they will protect their employees and customers as they return to work. Many States are recommending or mandating screening for certain workplaces and have zero tolerance for sick workers reporting to work. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued new guidance for employers so they can legally screen employees regarding COVID-19 symptoms. In Massachusetts they require employees to Self-certify prior to some shifts and require workers to leave the work site if they are sick.

“Timesheet Mobile understands the challenges businesses face as employees return to work. Having an automated COVID-19 safety screening process makes it easier to attract employees and customers, while keeping them safe,” said Timesheet Mobile President Bob Drainville. “Integrating COVID-19 Self Screening in our app is the easiest way to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the workplace and allows our customers in Home Health Care, Janitorial, Security and the Trades to quickly screen workers before each shift.”

The COVID-19 Self-Screening feature is available to all users of Timesheet Mobile’s employee time clock app at no cost and can be enabled in the Smartphone App Punch Settings.

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ZENB Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With 30% Discount Site Wide

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CHICAGO (PRWEB)

ZENB, a leading plant-based food company known for its delectable and organic vegetable snacks, is pleased to celebrate its one-year anniversary with 30% off sitewide* on ZENB.com with code 1YEAR, starting now through June 21st.

Since making its debut, ZENB has launched two vegetable-first products: ZENB Veggie Bites and ZENB Veggie Sticks. ZENB’s veggie snacks use organic ingredients and as much of the vegetable as possible – stem, seeds, peel and all, which offer more nutrients like fiber.

Available in various distinct flavor profiles, ZENB Veggie Bites and ZENB Veggie Sticks are crafted to highlight the flavor of the vegetable among other spices and ingredients. Each snack, available exclusively on ZENB.com, allows for convenient on-the-go plant-based snacking and is USDA-certified organic, vegan, gluten free and non-GMO with no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.

“We are beyond thrilled with the response to ZENB’s debut and our customers’ interest in our products in the first year of business,” said Christiane Paul, CMO of ZENB. “To show our gratitude to our loyal fans, we’re excited to offer this discount. ZENB’s wholesome, plant-based snacking makes it easy to get more veggies in your life and this anniversary is the perfect opportunity to celebrate one of our favorite holidays, National Eat Your Vegetables Day!”

The ZENB Veggie Bites are available in five delicious flavors that blend together a hero vegetable with a compliment of fruits and spices: Sweet Potato, Sweet Corn, Summer Beet, Edamame and Red Bell Pepper. A box of five is available on ZENB.com for $19.99 or with a subscription is 10% off with free shipping.

ZENB’s Veggie Sticks celebrate the simple flavor of the hero vegetable and are available in six delicious flavors: Corn, Beet, Red Bell Pepper, Carrot, Pumpkin and Sweet Potato. Each Veggie Stick box of 10 is available on ZENB.com for $29.99 or with a subscription is 10% off with free shipping.

Over this past year, ZENB has been focused on elevating the plant-based snacking experience through the Veggie Bites and Veggie Sticks. In the coming year, ZENB is excited to launch new flavors of snack options as well as additional products that dip into new dining occasions, such as dinner. Innovation is top of mind at ZENB and there will be no shortage of exciting product launches and offers to come.

For more information on ZENB, please visit ZENB.com or follow ZENB on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

*One time use only and limited to one per customer. This discount cannot be combined with other offers (such as the Veggie Sticks Trial Box, Veggie Bites Trial, or ZENB Sampler) or sale items, and cannot be applied to previous purchases. Offer has no cash value and is void.

About ZENB

Since 2019, ZENB, a direct-to-consumer brand, has been changing the way consumers think about nutrition by placing food that is organic and delicious at the center of everyday lives. By offering products that use vegetables in their entirety, ZENB helps consumers enjoy plant-based foods in a way that is more mindful of the world around us. The company’s debut products, ZENB Veggie Sticks and ZENB Veggie Bites are just the beginning of ZENB’s vision to empower a lifestyle filled with delicious, convenient options that incorporate more plants into one’s daily diet. For more information about the ZENB community and product offerings, visit ZENB.com.

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West Point Cadets and Annapolis Midshipmen Lead the Way in Serving Aging Veterans During the COVID Pandemic and Address Racial Justice Issues Through Their Example

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Operation Golden Shield

Protecting Our Veterans and Supporting Our Caregivers


VIENNA, Va. (PRWEB)

Operation Golden Shield was established by a coalition of West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen to serve aging Veterans during this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 2 million cases and over 115,000 deaths in the United States alone, the coronavirus remains a significant threat to many vulnerable populations to include Veterans in nursing homes. This student-led community effort aims to collect and donate priority items for Veterans in long-term care facilities and urgently needed medical supplies for the care providers caring for them.

Operation Golden Shield also serves as a positive counter point to the heightened racial tensions and rhetoric of recent days and provides a shining example of what color-blind collaboration and solidarity look like. Despite national protests against the killings of George Floyd and others, the calls for racial justice and remedies for the fault lines of systemic inequities, and the shifting landscape of political dialogue, Operation Golden Shield’s organizing committee is an incredibly diverse leadership group consisting of cadets and midshipmen of all races and ethnicities. They are serving Veterans and their caregivers and doing so in Washington, DC, where 75% of COVID-19 deaths are among African-Americans. Their leadership and service are exemplars of what our nation should aspire to.

Operation Golden Shield was founded by Caleb Suh – a first year cadet at the United States Military Academy and a graduate of James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia – who coordinated with the Community Living Center (CLC) at the D.C. VA Medical Center to identify the most urgent needs of health care providers and of CLC residents. The next drive-by donation event is scheduled for Saturday, June 27, 2020, from 10 am to 12 pm in the parking lot of the Vienna Presbyterian Church (124 Park Street, NE, Vienna, VA), and delivery to the VA is scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at 10 am.

“Due to the pandemic, many of us unexpectedly found ourselves back in the communities where we had grown up. It became clear that there were urgent needs among Veterans, within our health care system, and among patients in long-term care facilities, and all of us had important social responsibilities to contribute,” said Cadet Suh. “Through our actions and our engagement with our community, we also help address the societal schisms and the racial divide that we are seeing in our country. Working on meaningful activities, on common missions – that is how we bring everyone together. It is an honor to serve the Veterans who have given so much to our nation, together as a unified front.”

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More information about Operation Golden Shield is available at http://www.operationgoldenshield.com.

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Ziosoft Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Dual CT kV Analysis

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With the addition of our new software to images produced from any manufacturer’s CT system, increased diagnostic confidence could help in multiple applications, such as cardiac and lesion analysis.


BELMONT, Calif. (PRWEB)

Ziosoft, a pioneer in 3D/4D medical AI visualization, announced it has received a 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Computed Tomography (CT) Dual Energy Analysis software on the company’s flagship Ziostation2 system. Studies show that dual energy CT provides several advantages over single energy CT for both diagnosis and therapy response evaluation.

“CT is the workhorse of modern medical imaging,” said Rajeev Taitriya, vice president of Business Development and Marketing for Ziosoft. “This important modality accounts for approximately more than 80 million exams per year in the United States alone. With the addition of our new software to images produced from any manufacturer’s CT system, increased diagnostic confidence could help in multiple applications, such as cardiac and lesion analysis.”

Technical advances, like faster scan times, thinner slices, multi-planar reformatting and 3D rendering, have revolutionized the scope of CT.

Dual energy CT (DECT) offers numerous applications and possibilities previously unavailable with conventional single energy CT. DECT involves the use of different kV (Kilovoltage) levels during the CT exam. This enables dual energy CT systems to exploit the different Hounsfield unit (HU) values for materials through different energies to decompose images into the components making up these materials.

The potential benefits of DECT include increased lesion detection and characterization, improved oncological staging and evaluation of treatment response, artifact reduction and many other applications, all at comparable or even reduced radiation doses (kV). For example, in liver analysis, DECT can provide improved screening, reduced follow up studies and possibly decrease the need for biopsy. It could also offer increased potential for treatment response evaluation.

With the Ziostation2 software system, it is possible to create masks to remove bone and other visual obstructions from the CT studies. This also enables the ability to measure HU attenuation factors to determine material decomposition. Additionally, images can also be created from the multi-kVp datasets, including virtual non-contrast, energy subtraction and image blending.

The Ziosoft application software is an image processing application software available for installation onto customer-owned hardware. This application software can be networked to provide for sharing of resources. This application software also receives medical image data from other modalities (MRI, Ultrasound, Digital X-ray, X-ray, Angiography, PET, SPECT and others) directly from these modalities or image archives such as PACS through network or media. It then provides for the viewing, quantification, manipulation, communication, printing and management of medical images.

Key features include graphical histograms for viewing the desired energy level and extracting objects, specifying ROIs directly on the graph and saving mask information. It also easily creates virtual non-contrast and multi-kV blended images, in addition, it can produce separate energy structures for masking or bone removal.

“The Ziosoft protocol CT Dual kV analysis generates blended, subtraction, virtual non-contrast and iodine map images,” said Taitriya. “It then saves the results in a new image series for analysis. We believe this provides a powerful tool for clinicians in a number of applications when seeking accurate diagnosis and therapeutic evaluation.”

About Ziosoft, Inc.

Ziosoft provides a comprehensive multi-modality, advanced processing and viewing solution for any specialty. Its customizable platform provides automated workflow to maximize efficiency. It is also a scalable, enterprise platform for “anywhere” accessibility and, as a software-only platform, it is simplified to minimize cost of ownership. For further information, visit http://www.ziosoftinc.com.

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Vytalize Health Selects Trella Health as Network Management Data Partner

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ATLANTA (PRWEB)

Vytalize Health, a primary care management services organization, recently selected Trella Health, a leading healthcare analytics company, for their care network management solution. Trella’s recently released software solution, Mosaic, enables networks such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and health systems to develop and manage partnerships to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. With this partnership, Trella’s Mosaic solution will assist Vytalize Health with optimizing their acute, post-acute, and ambulatory networks across eight states.

“As a Medicare ACO, it’s critical for us to collaborate with the highest value specialists who will deliver quality patient care and enable us to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Trella enables us to take a data-driven approach to optimize our network, unlocking insights that directly impact our clinical and financial performance,” said Vytalize CEO and co-founder Faris Ghawi.

“I’m excited for this partnership, this product, and what it means for the future of post-acute data insights,” Trella Health CEO Ian Juliano said. “Vytalize has a solid track record demonstrating its commitment to excellence in the primary care space, and as an early adopter of Mosaic, they’ll be even more empowered to do what they do best.”

About Vytalize Health

Vytalize Health is an all-in-one solution for primary care providers (PCPs) seeking to expand their scope of services and participate in value-based care for Medicare beneficiaries. Vytalize equips its network of physicians with everything they need to be successful in caring for their patients and staying ahead in a rapidly changing healthcare system.

About Trella Health

Trella Health enables providers and payers across the care continuum to make optimal care network decisions, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. As one of only a few companies in the country deemed an Innovator under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Virtual Research Data Center Program, Trella has access to 100% of Medicare Part A and Part B claims data. Trella analyzes 1.2 billion claims annually and presents relevant insights to nearly 10,000 users.

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Pulse Light Clinic speak to Nutritionist Lisa Borg on eliminating the bloat

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LONDON (PRWEB)

Lisa Borg at Pulse Light Clinic explains the steps to take to aid those with a bloated stomach.

“Eliminating bloating can result in losing inches in many cases, but for most cases a long term solution is required. If you have a specific event you are aiming for, and ONLY for those without underlying health issues, I recommend a 2-week schedule leading up to it with each step being additional to the last:

Step One: measure your vital statistics and note them down. Eliminate all processed sugar from the diet to starve yeasts in the gut which are fermenting the sugar and releasing gas! Start to drink 8 glasses of boiled water daily (allow to cool but drink while warm). These should be taken first thing in the morning upon rising and between meals throughout the day. Before 3pm do 2 workouts each lasting 15 minutes; anything that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat lightly. This step lasts 3 days.

Step Two: cleanse the colon. First thing in the morning, eat nothing, stir 2 heaped teaspoons of Unrefined Sea Salt into 1 litre of boiling water; keep stirring until the salt dissolves; add 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Allow to cool but drink warm and quickly. Lie down on your right side and massage your abdomen, turn over onto your left while continuing to massage. Retain liquid for 20-30 minutes at which point you will need the bathroom urgently. You may need to use the bathroom frequently over the course of the day before the colon is empty.

Step Three: Organic Bone Broth Fasting. On the same day as your colon cleanse, eat no solid foods but drink as much organic bone broth as you desire. This will nourish your cleansed intestines and heal any excess permeability. Continue your exercise and get to bed early.

Step Four: Start Anew. Day 5 eat lightly today, continue to exclude processed sugar, increase your intake of vegetables and proteins. Increase your exercise on a gradient by adding 5 minutes every 2 days to your 15 minute workouts until you are managing 2 workouts of 30 minutes each. Aim for total one hour per day, 4 days per week. Short bursts of intense exercise are easier to maintain, better for your body and hormones, and more fun. Continue until day 14, measure your vital statistics and compare to the start.”

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Thriveworks Counseling Opens Office in Lexington, MA and Offers Appointments within 24 Hours

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LEXINGTON, Mass. (PRWEB)

Thriveworks Counseling is expanding its presence across the US, opening an office in Lexington, MA.

The company’s mission is to help people live happy, successful lives and the team is excited to expand their services to even more people in Lexington.

This practice stands out from other counseling practices by offering premium benefits, including same and next-day appointments, online counseling options, and innovative technologies that improve the client experience.

Often, certain barriers prevent an individual from scheduling or receiving counseling, such as a lack of availability. Thriveworks offers a solution to this problem by offering evening and weekend sessions in addition to the normal daytime appointments.

“People struggle to find providers who have availability during times that most working people are available, like evenings and weekends. Thriveworks addresses this problem and not only offers premium session times, but sets clients up with exceptional clinicians, of whom are some of the most qualified in the field,” says Chief Compliance Officer at Thriveworks Heidi Faust.

Thriveworks partners individuals with counselors who have the right skillset, experience, and training to help them with their specific challenges and goals. Depression therapy, anxiety therapy, couples therapy, life coaching, and stress management counseling are but a few of the many mental health services offered at Thriveworks.

About Thriveworks:

Thriveworks works to provide people with premium mental health care and also exceptional customer service. When a client calls to set up an appointment, they speak to a scheduling specialist who walks them through the quick and easy scheduling process.

Thriveworks clients are paired with skilled, caring mental health professionals who have a wide set of skills, training, and experience. For more information, call (718) 786-7267 or visit: https://thriveworks.com/lexington-counseling/

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SentryHealth Redefines Employee Wellness With Full-Service Well-Being Management Program

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PRWEB)

SentryHealth, an industry leader in workplace health management, today announced the release of WellOnMyWay™, an innovative program that redefines employee health and wellness. WellOnMyWay expands on SentryHealth’s expertise in effectively managing chronic disease to apply principles of success to treat the whole person – physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially.

It has become clear that traditional wellness programs have failed to improve overall health and well-being while controlling health care costs. As a result, WellOnMyWay unites the power of technology, advanced analytics, evidence-based programs, and high-touch engagement to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes for both employers and employees.

With WellOnMyWay, employees are guided and supported on personalized journeys to improve health and wellness. From a physical health perspective, guidance centers on addressing high cost, life limiting conditions and underlining health risks as well as high service utilization to curb costs through alternative, digital programs supported by expert health coaches and care navigators. Mental and emotional health programs focus on stress, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Financial programs assist employees in better managing finances and planning for the future.

Unlike traditional health and wellness programs, with WellOnMyWay, employees experience better health literacy, sustained behavior change, and clinical, emotional, and financial success. Employers experience greater return on investment (ROI) and value on investment (VOI), better employee satisfaction, and improved recruitment and retention.

“We know that health and wellness isn’t one-size fits all. Many employers are dissatisfied with the results of their employee wellness program. Our approach to well-being management is like no other,” said J. Kevin Porter, SentryHealth CEO. “We raise the bar through smart design, easy access, robust personalization, and active outreach. We offer and fully manage everything an employer needs to drive an effective wellness strategy that improves employee health and happiness while addressing the rising cost of health care.”

For more information about implementing WellOnMyWay in the workplace, visit the company’s website at http://www.sentryhealth.com.

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IDbyDNA to Help Indonesian Government Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

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“Like every country around the world right now, Indonesia is tasked with gaining a deeper and more accurate assessment into the spread of COVID-19 in order to protect its citizens. Time is of the essence.”


SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)

Today, IDbyDNA, the company revolutionizing the use of metagenomics to improve health by decoding the unknown, announced that Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital (RSPAD Gatot Soebroto) in Jakarta, Indonesia, is taking an innovative approach to fight COVID-19 by implementing IDbyDNA’s Explify Platform for detection of SARS-CoV-2 and hundreds of other pathogens in patients with COVID-19. COVID-19 cases in Indonesia now total nearly 40,000, with more than 2,000 reported deaths. A health ministry official has said that another 33,000 patients are suspected of having the novel coronavirus. As the main hospital for the President, Government Ministers, Military Officers of Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian Army, RSPAD Gatot Soebroto and its affiliate, Indonesia Army Health Center, will be leveraging IDbyDNA’s Explify technology to provide advanced diagnostic insights for SARS‐CoV‐2. The groundbreaking approach to next-generation sequencing is more scalable, accurate and analyzes the genetic makeup of individual strains for better surveillance at the time of diagnosis.

“Like every country around the world right now, Indonesia is tasked with gaining a deeper and more accurate assessment into the spread of COVID-19 in order to protect its citizens. Time is of the essence,” said Jeff Field, CCO of IDbyDNA. “Because of our recently announced partnership with Illumina, we can now provide a complete NGS workflow solution that can be quickly and easily integrated into laboratories and hospitals around the world, like RSPAD. By enabling them to perform comprehensive NGS-based diagnostics, including broad pathogen detection, antimicrobial resistance and quantification, we are delivering more insights that were not previously possible, all within a more streamlined, scalable workflow.”

Through an agreement with Pishon Capital Limited, IDbyDNA’s Explify Platform will be used to analyze tens of thousands of cases throughout hospitals and institutes in Indonesia. With recent data showing that nearly 20 percent of COVID-19 positive patients may also have co-infections with bacteria and/or fungi, many of which can be treated, IDbyDNA can also deliver actionable information to clinicians making treatment decisions. The Explify Platform will also provide SARS-CoV-2 genomic information, including genetic mutations of viral strains from patient samples, that can be leveraged to track the virus.

“In this new phase of the pandemic where we need to understand the genomic footprint of this virus, it’s important that we move beyond traditional PCR testing and implement a better, more scalable and sustainable solution for accurate detection and genomic profiling of SARS‐CoV‐2 and its substrains,” said Ms. Rani Handayani, spokesperson for the Indonesia Army Health Center and RSPAD, and speaking on behalf of Dr. Junaedi, head of molecular laboratory and vaccine development of Indonesia Army Health Center.

Dr. Prihati Pujo Waskito SpJP(K), MMRS at RSPAD Gatot Soebroto added, “By leveraging IDbyDNA’s Explify Platform, this new testing approach will provide our clinicians with greater insights, allowing them to make better treatment decisions. Additionally, this approach also enables us to provide diagnostic services and surveillance simultaneously. We’re taking every step to mitigate the spread of this virus, which is why we’re looking to innovators, like IDbyDNA.”

IDbyDNA’s Explify Platform simultaneously profiles tens of thousands of microorganisms and pathogens in any sample to offer laboratories a streamlined path to offering unbiased, NGS-based laboratory developed tests (LDTs) that are more comprehensive. The proprietary Explify database includes millions of curated DNA and RNA reference sequences and can identify more than 50,000 microorganisms and over 6,000 known common and rare pathogens, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

For more information about IDbyDNA and its approach, visit http://www.idbydna.com.

About IDbyDNA

IDbyDNA is revolutionizing the use of clinical metagenomics to improve health by decoding the unknown. IDbyDNA’s product suite delivers unparalleled data analytics and industry-leading expertise to support medical laboratories with actionable infectious disease testing and pathogen surveillance. By profiling tens of thousands of microorganisms from any specimen with a scalable and intuitive approach, IDbyDNA empowers healthcare providers with greater depth and transparency for better identification of pathogens in order to accelerate triage and treatment and improve public health. For more information, visit http://www.idbydna.com.

About RSPAD Gatot Soebroto

Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital or often Rumah Sakit Kepresidenan Gatot Soebroto is a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. The name of the hospital is derived from Gatot Soebroto, a National Hero of Indonesia. Established in 1819, the hospital is now the main hospital for the President, Government Ministers, Military Officers of Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian Army.

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Landmarks and Social Media Are Turning Orange This World FSHD Day

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The FSHD Society's New England chapter celebrates World FSHD Day.

The FSHD Society’s New England chapter celebrates World FSHD Day.

“We encourage everyone to share inspirational messages and images via social media and other channels to continue to drive FSHD visibility in the broader community.”


LEXINGTON, Mass. (PRWEB)

This Saturday, June 20, 2020, the FSHD Society, the world’s largest research-focused patient organization for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), will be joined by dozens of advocacy groups and allies around the world in celebrating the fifth annual World FSHD Day, a global 24-hour campaign to raise awareness for the disease.

On World FSHD Day, the Society will ask individuals with FSHD, their families, and supporters to take part in its annual Orange Slice Selfie campaign by posting a photo of themselves on social media using an orange slice in place of their smile with the official hashtag #WorldFSHDDay. The campaign is designed to stand out on social media by combining the event’s official color, bright orange, with an eye-catching image representing a symptom experienced by many patients—loss of the ability to smile.

Other activities to watch for include:

  • At sundown, Boston’s landmark Zakim bridge will light up orange, the official World FSHD Day color.

  • Atlanta’s 34-story King and Queen towers will be illuminated in orange.

  • In Arizona, the iconic Gilbert water tower will be bathed in orange lights.

  • Dyne Therapeutics will host a “fireside chat” with its CEO and individuals living with FSHD to raise awareness of the disease and promote participation in the FSHD Society’s upcoming Voice of the Patient Forum, an externally led patient-focused drug development meeting to give testimony to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dyne has also collected short videos and email messages from FSHD community members about their hopes for a future therapy, and orange slice selfies from the Dyne team, and will share these inspirational messages and images via social media and other channels to continue to drive FSHD visibility in the broader community.

“Since launching the FSHD Therapeutic Accelerator in 2018, we have been laser-focused on eliminating obstacles standing in the way of FSHD drug development research, while opening the regulatory pathway for safe and effective therapies to reach our families,” said Mark Stone, chief executive officer of the FSHD Society. “Our community has responded through financial support and active engagement at our special events, chapter meetings, webinars, and on social media. This is the fuel in our engine, allowing us to go further, faster. We must continue to keep our eyes firmly fixed on our priorities – those vital things that must be done to reach our goal of therapies for families by 2025.”

FSHD is among the most prevalent of the nine primary types of muscular dystrophy affecting adults and children. The genetic disorder is estimated to affect 870,000 individuals worldwide and causes progressive weakness, typically in the face, shoulder blade, arms, legs, and torso, but may affect almost any skeletal muscle in the body. There is currently no treatment or cure and approximately one-quarter of patients become dependent on wheelchairs.

To learn more about World FSHD Day and to see where an event is occurring near you, visit https://www.fshdsociety.org/. To learn how you can join in to spread awareness, check out the Society’s World FSHD Day toolkit, with more information on how to participate in various ways and spread the world on social media by using the hashtag #WorldFSHD.

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About the FSHD Society

The FSHD Society is the world’s largest research-focused patient organization for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), one of the most prevalent forms of muscular dystrophy. It has catalyzed major advancements and are accelerating the development of treatments and a cure to end the pain, disability, and suffering endured by one million people worldwide who live with FSHD. The FSHD Society has transformed the landscape for FSHD research and is committed to making sure that no one faces this disease alone. The Society offers a community of support, news, and information through its website at https://www.fshdsociety.org.

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