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| January 15, 2025 |
| Two Must Read Topics About the Industry |
| I know the last few months has been busy with the holidays, getting everything done before the year end and preparing for the JP Morgan Conference. Many of you are just starting to catch up on things. This month I decided to give you a chance to catch up on a couple of important topics: 1) Surviving the New Normal, Tips from the Industry and 2) Women’s Health is Facing a Crisis! To read more. |
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| February 15, 2025 |
| Digital Health Trends – Five Factors to Consider in Developing a Successful Product |
| Digital Health products have existed for a while, but became very popular when the pandemic struck, and healthcare professionals and patients were working remotely. Telehealth became the new normal for office visits. In addition, a lot of digital health companies have been formed to fill this new need of remote access. However, Digital health companies have faced headwinds over the past few years. Find out where this market is heading. To read more. |
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| March 15, 2025 |
| When Too Much Technology a Bad Thing |
| What do I mean by “too much technology is a bad thing”? In the consumer or commercial market, in selling your product, there is a balance between meeting the needs of your customers and customer compliance as defined as what is easy for your customer to use so they will use it long term. If a product is not easy to use as it is too complicated or takes too many steps, they won’t use it and ultimately your product will fail. The product could be 100% effective, but if your customers are not using it, the product fails. To read more. |
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| April 15, 2025 |
| Trump Has Gone Too Far in Dismantling All DEI Policies and Programs |
| On March 4th 2025, in a joint session of Congress, the president claimed his administration had eliminated DEI. Trump bragged about how he “ended the tyranny” of diversity, equity and inclusion – DEI – policies in the federal government, including the U.S. military.] “And our country will be woke no longer,” said Trump. Trump also touted his declaration that the U.S. recognizes only two genders and his policies restricting transgender Americans. Payton McNabb, a former high school athlete from Murphy, N.C., who suffered a brain injury after a transgender female athlete spiked a ball at her in a volleyball match in 2022, was an honored guest at the speech. “It’s out of our society. We don’t want it,” Trump said late in the speech. “Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad. It’s gone, it’s gone. And we feel so much better for it. Don’t we? Don’t we feel better?” To read more. |
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| May 15, 2025 |
| There is no May Newsletter due to the planning of the AAPI Heritage Festival and Exhibit and celebrating AAPI Heritage Month. We organized two (2) AAPI Heritage Festival and Exhibit; one on May 6, 2025 in collaboration with Middlesex Community College in Lowell and one on May 17, 2025 at the Boston Lyric Opera in South Boston. In addition, we were invited to display our “Contributions AAPI Have Made to American History” exhibit at the Brookline AANHPI Heritage Festival on May 3, 2025 and the Network for Social Justice (NFSJ) AANHPI Heritage Festival on May 20, 2025 at Winchester High School. See June Newsletter for more details and pictures or visit AAPIEC Inc. website:aapiwoburn.weebly.com. |
| June 15, 2025 |
| Score Card: Robert Kennedy Jr. first 100 days at Human Health Services |
| When Trump got elected and planned to appoint Robert Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the US U.S. Health and Human Services, there was grave concerns among many including the healthcare professionals since Kennedy thought that vaccines caused autism despite scientific consensus to the contrary. We had heard sweeping changed but you may not know the extent of these changes and the impact it has on everyone. Even if it doesn’t impact you personally, it may impact people you know. I will cover an overview on Kennedy’s reorganization plans, his view on vaccines and his most recent decision, 6/9/25 to fire all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). On March 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a dramatic restructuring in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative.” To read more. |
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| July 15, 2025 |
| What Is Your Biological Age and How the Brain Plays a Role in Aging? |
| Scientists have been studying the ageing process for at least 50 years. Aging and death are inevitable, but scientists are trying to develop an “Ageing Clock” that could be used early in life to assess an individual’s risk of age-related illness, when it might still be possible to intervene. They could also aid in testing treatments aimed at slowing ageing, by providing a marker to track the effects of the intervention in real time. Read on about Ageing Clocks, a New Theory on Aging and Seeking New Treatment. To read more. |
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| August 15. 2025 |
| Obesity Is a Hard Disease to Prevent and Treat |
| From August 2021–August 2023, the prevalence of obesity in adults was 40.3%, with no significant differences between men and women according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This means more than 100 million American adults are obese, while 20 million adults have severe obesity. The new data also showed, severe obesity is higher among women compared to men. From 2017 to March 2020, the prevalence of obesity among U.S. children and adolescents was 19.7%. This .means that approximately 14.7 million U.S. youths aged 2–19 years have obesity. To read more. |
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| September 15, 2025 |
| What Leaders Need to Know in Implementing AI into the Workplace Successfully |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the topic on everyone’s mind on how to incorporate it into the workplace as well as our daily lives. It seems every article or webinar is on AI and its applications for every industry, indicating that AI is the answer to everything. But many people don’t fully understand the pros and cons of AI and some believe that after the company implements AI, everything will take care of itself. To read more. |
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