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Living Longer Better: A Call to Action to Promote the Health of Older Adults and Their Communities

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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As the president of ASTHO, I have the honor of issuing a call to action to fellow state health officials and our public health colleagues. The 2014-2015 ASTHO President’s Challenge,…

The Racial History Of Criminal Justice In America

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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This article seeks to offer a deeper historical and analytical context for understanding today’s American criminal justice system-both its rise to such a remarkable size and its stunning racial disproportionality.…

Single-Molecule Combinatorial Therapeutics for Treating Obesity and Diabetes

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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It will soon be 100 years since Frederick G. Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John J.R. Macleod in 1921 demonstrated that extracts of the pancreas had breathtaking beneficial effects…

How Does Social Media Fundraising Fit in?

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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The year 2017 did not start off well for a handful of major corporate brands. United Airlines provoked outrage and calls for a boycott after law enforcement forcibly removed a…

Social-Media Privacy and Protection Laws

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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Given the prolific use of social media, many employers believe they have a duty to monitor an employee’s or applicant’s personal social-media use to protect confidential and proprietary information, monitor…

Freshwater Pollution: Effects on Aquatic Life and Human Health

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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Water pollution may be understood as the phenomenon of addition and ingress of substances and materials into water/water bodies which are not the natural part of the water cycle on…

A dedicated nurse for skin-to-skin care after cesarean birth

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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Skin-to-skin contact occurs when infants lie prone on a mother’s chest with no clothing or blankets separating the mother from her infant. Placing newborn infants in skin-to-skin contact with their…

The Zone of Rejection: Negative Thoughts on Statistical Inference

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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The controversy over tests of significance is quite viable-it lies dormant for periods of time, but emerges now and then in a vigorous way. Pertaining to the controversy, the April…

Editorial from my iPhone

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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I am writing this editorial from my iPhone, which has apparently become the most secure personal computing device available today. The highly publicized dispute between Apple and the FBI involves…

Global challenges and opportunities for dietitians

·January 25, 2021
·Sylvie Pinley
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This issue of Nutrition & Dietetics presents a potpourri of research from across the world that highlights the complexity of nutrition as a science and the role of dietitian nutritionists…