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☆ Study Suggests Waiting Longer Before Withdrawing Life Support
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Gina Kolata | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When a patient with a severe traumatic brain injury is comatose, in intensive care, unresponsive and hooked up to a ventilator, but not brain-dead, when is the time to withdraw life support? A small study on the fates of people in such situations suggests that doctors and patients’ families may make better decisions if they wait even a few days longer than usual. Often, a doctor sits down with family members within 72 hours of the patient’s admission to intensive care to discuss the patient’s prognosis, and whether they want to keep their loved one alive, or to remove life support. Reported outcomes of patients who had severe traumatic brain injuries show that most times the decision is to remove life support. The researchers behind the new study say that their limited data suggests that doctors’ predictions so soon after the injury frequently are wrong.

☆ Goldman Sachs asked over 2,000 Black women in the US about their money and the numbers are grim — but ripe for change
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jennifer Streaks | Senior Personal Finance Reporter | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementGoldman Sachs' Black Women Initiative released a new report that asked over 2,000 Black women about money. In an effort to shed light on critical workforce disparities affecting Black women, Goldman Sachs' Black Women Initiative released a new report: "Money Matters: One Million Black Women Economic Mobility Survey." In fact, 63% of Black women report that they are optimistic about their futures. This comprehensive investment in Black women includes direct investing, which emphasizes financial health and digital connectivity across areas that directly impact Black women and their lives. It's led by Black women, advised by a council of Black leaders from across the country in partnership with Black women-led organizations, and most importantly centers Black women with the goal of positively impacting over 215,000 Black women across the core investment pillars of healthcare, job creation and workforce development, education, affordable housing, digital connectivity, financial health, and access to capital.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, —, Asahi Pompey, It's, Black, Pompey Organizations: Service, Economic Mobility Survey, Asahi, Goldman Sachs Foundation, Goldman, Goldman Sachs Investment Locations: Black, America, United States

☆ 41,000 people are about to get $240 million in medical debt cancelled thanks to an infusion of cash from Biden's pandemic aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In Toledo, Ohio, 41,000 residents will see around $240 million in medical debt relieved. Communities across the country have allocated at least $16 million toward relieving medical debt, according to the White House . Cook County officials connected Grim with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys up medical debt across the country and wipes it out completely. "If you have your medical debt relieved, they can go back to the doctor again, they can put food on the table." Do you have medical debt, or have received medical debt relief?

Persons: Michele Grim, It's, Grim, Joe Biden, Grim — Organizations: Service, Kaiser Family Foundation, Consumer Financial, Bureau, American, ARPA Locations: Toledo , Ohio, Wall, Silicon, Ohio, Lucas County, Toledo, Cook County , Illinois, Cook, Cook County

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