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☆ Cerebral to Cut About 20% of Workers as It Shrinks Operations
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Khadeeja Safdar | Rolfe Winkler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cerebral said the moves would be spread across all of its divisions. Telehealth startup Cerebral Inc. told staffers it is cutting jobs and restructuring its operations in moves that will affect about 20% of its employees, shrinking the company to match patient demand and lower growth targets. In a memo to staff on Monday, Chief Executive David Mou said the changes would be spread across all divisions, including headquarters, clinical-care teams and support staff. He said employees would be notified over the course of the week, according to the memo, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

☆ Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck Y Combinator alum Shimmer used to raise $1.3 million to bring ADHD coaching to adults
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Y Combinator alum Shimmer raised $1.3 in funding from VCs like Honeystone Ventures and Koa Labs. The startup provides ADHD coaching for adults. The adult ADHD space is much smaller, with medication-focused startups like Cerebral and Done receiving regulatory scrutiny for over-prescribing controlled medication like Adderall and putting patients at risk. At Shimmer, Wang says the focus on coaching, as opposed to medication, is a better long-term solution for many people managing ADHD. Here's a look at the 15-slide pitch deck Shimmer used to raise its seed round.

☆ SoftBank-backed Cerebral is cutting 20% of its employees as demand for its services slows
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Cerebral, the SoftBank-backed mental-health startup, is making changes and cuts that will affect about 20% of its employees, Cerebral CEO Dr. David Mou said in an email to employees, reviewed by Insider. In the October 24 email, Mou said the company was adjusting the size of clinician teams to better match patient demand. Employees will be notified of changes throughout the week, Mou said. "We are deeply appreciative of our employees' commitment to our mission and service to Cerebral," the spokesperson said in the statement. These changes will be spread across all divisions - HQ Operations, HQ Support, Clinical Care - affecting approximately 20% of our employees.

☆ 5 ways you can make your workplace inclusive, from a disabled employee
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Millington says disability shouldn't be seen as 'a bad thing' just because able-bodied people don't understand it. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age, journalist Milette Millington, 24, now advocates for the disabled community in her work. Millington opened up to Insider about the difficulty of working while disabled and covering such a misunderstood topic. "Many people don't know what it's like to live with a disability because they don't know anything about it, or they don't know anyone in the community," said Millington, noting that October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. A National Trends in Disability Employment report from the Kessler Foundation found that the group has seen an 5% increase in labor-force participation between April 2020 and August 2022.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday confirmed a nationwide shortage of the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication Adderall, more than two months after some pharmacies reported difficulties filling prescriptions. The shortage affects the immediate-release form of Adderall, a stimulant that helps manage ADHD symptoms. Dougherty added that Teva expects “intermittent delays through end of year.”The supply from the other Adderall manufacturers isn’t enough to meet the need, the FDA said. The shortage has hit pharmacies differentlySome pharmacies have been having trouble filling Adderall prescriptions since the summer. In May, Walmart and CVS announced they would stop filling prescriptions for controlled substances from telehealth startups such as Cerebral and Done Health, which prescribe stimulants and gained footing during the pandemic.

☆ Russia is scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel in order to hold off Ukraine's advance
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Members of the German Volkssturm march during their swearing-in ceremony in Berlin on November 12, 1944. While Russia still has a military draft, only about 30% of its troops are conscripts, with the remainder contract soldiers. Arkady Budnitsky/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesHence, Putin signed an executive order for partial mobilization on September 21. But the hundreds of thousands of Russian men fleeing the country know better. Those new Russian soldiers will receive barely any training.

☆ SoftBank-backed Elemy aimed to transform autism care. But current and former employees say the $1.15 billion startup overpromised on its capacity to treat kids.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Elemy, a $1.15 billion startup, promised families and healthcare providers quick access to autism care for kids. The current and former Elemy employees who spoke to Insider for this story requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the company. ABA therapy, while somewhat controversial, is the most widely used treatment to teach kids with autism new skills and discourage challenging behaviors. At the direction of leadership, Elemy employees on the business-development team told those organizations to send their kids with autism, according to four former employees directly involved in forming referral relationships. Each ABA company performs its own expensive, time-consuming behavior assessments, and some insurers pay for only one assessment every six months, he said.

☆ Inside the New York Times' heated union fight, where a potential strike looms and the biggest sticking point is pay
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Will reporters at The New York Times really go on strike? The idea, unthinkable just a few months ago, is now on the lips of New York Times Guild members as the union's contract negotiations with management heat up. New York Times reporters have walked off the job before, like as part of a 1962-1963 citywide newspaper strike. But Robles said union members are upset that the Times' strong business footing has not translated into better pay. (The Times spokesperson countered that the paper was not seeing record profits).

☆ The Kremlin says it hopes its mobilization for Ukraine will 'speed up' after it corrects 'errors' in selecting draftees
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Kremlin admitted on Monday that it made "errors" in selecting draftees, Reuters reported. Officials are "working to rectify the situation," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. He added that officials in some regions are now "actively working to rectify the situation," Reuters reported. Putin announced a partial military mobilization last week, pledging to call up 300,000 people. "I don't know anything about this," Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters.

☆ The possibility of a strike looms at The New York Times as its union battles management over wage hikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Will reporters at The New York Times really go on strike? The idea, unthinkable just a few months ago, is now on the lips of New York Times Guild members as the union's contract negotiations with management heat up. New York Times reporters have walked off the job before, like as part of a 1962-1963 citywide newspaper strike. The union at Wirecutter, the reviews site owned by the New York Times, walked off the job during the Black Friday shopping period last year, for instance. But Robles said union members are upset that the Times' strong business footing has not translated into better pay.

☆ Russia drafted an old man with diabetes, a 17-year-old, and people with no training to fight in Ukraine, reports say — a sign of desperation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization on Wednesday, pledging to call up 300,000 people, but only from Russia's existing pool of military reservists. A 63-year-old man from the Volgograd region was also drafted as part of the mobilization, the independent Russian news site The Insider reported. The man, identified only as Yermolaev, has second-degree diabetes and a brain condition known as cerebral ischemia, The Insider reported. One man from Buryatia, a mountainous region in eastern Siberia, told The Insider that recruitment officers are "combing through the villages." There are 400 people in our village, and they took 20 men," the man, who was not named, told The Insider.

☆ How blind football is opening up new horizons for visually-impaired Ugandans
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | Cnn Video Amy Li | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

And I wondered if we could start it in Uganda," Muzafaru tells CNN SportJagwe Muzafaru founded Blind Football Uganda after volunteering at the Uganda Paralympic Committee. Just a year after its formation, Blind Football Uganda now consists of four men's teams and two women's teams, containing mixed abilities and classifications. Blind Football Uganda organizes training as well as matches. In a 2014 study conducted by British Blind Sport , participants named competition, health benefits and social interaction as their primary motivations for playing blind football. "It helps them from being in a situation such as depression, being lonely, [or] limited when they join or they come and play football," Muzafaru adds.

☆ Airline passengers with disabilities share their travel nightmares: Being forgotten on planes, receiving damaged wheelchairs, or facing life-threatening injuries
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-22 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Wheelchair users are caught in the chaos, risking lost or damaged wheelchairs or even life-threatening injuries. Similar incidents have occurred, in which wheelchair users developed serious infections from an injury sustained during or after a flight, Brown said. On July 26, the Department of Transportation released the Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, which outlines the ten fundamental rights of passengers with disabilities. Ansley added that it would also be ideal if wheelchair users could use their own wheelchair to fly. This could include carving a space at the beginning of the aircraft so that wheelchair users don't have to transfer to an aisle chair.

☆ Mental-Health Startup Cerebral Investigated by FTC
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-14 | by ( Rolfe Winkler | Khadeeja Safdar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mental-health startup Cerebral was subpoenaed last month by federal prosecutors as part of an investigation into possible violations of the Controlled Substances Act. The Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation into mental-health startup Cerebral Inc., according to a letter the FTC sent the company that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In the letter dated June 1, the FTC said it was investigating whether Cerebral engaged in deceptive or unfair practices related to advertising or marketing of mental-health services. The letter also directed the company to preserve documents.

☆ Cerebral is trying out an unusual clinical trial for a depression drug that has other companies wary. Here’s why.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-14 | by ( Megan Hernbroth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The mental-health startup Cerebral partnered with Alto Neuroscience for a clinical trial. The mental-health startup Cerebral is teaming up with Alto Neuroscience on an upcoming home-based clinical trial for the biopharmaceutical company Alto's depression-drug candidate, according to federal records. The idea behind the partnership is that Cerebral is a mental-health company treating patients with depression, the condition for which Alto is developing treatments. Cerebral Chief Medical Officer David Mou told TechCrunch in December that the startup provided patients for the trial "within an hour." How Alto is running the trialThe trial with Cerebral does not include a control group, according to the filing.

☆ Studiu: Metamfetamina care ajunge în râuri poate face păstrăvii să devină dependenți de droguri
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-07 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Păstrăvii care petrecuseră 8 săptămâni în apa cu droguri au ales această variantă în primele patru zile după mutarea în apă curată. Păstrăvii implicați în studiu au fost eutanasiați, iar țesutul lor cerebral a fost analizat de cercetători. Cercetătorii au concluzionat că și un nivel redus de droguri în râuri pot afecta animalele care trăiesc în ele. Pofta de droguri a peștilor s-ar putea dovedi chiar mai puternică decât satisfacția obținută în mod natural prin hrană sau împerechere, a mai spus Horky. În 2019, cercetătorii din Marea Britanie au descoperit urme de droguri, medicamente și pesticile în creveții de apă dulce.

Persons: Pavel Horky, CNN . Horky Organizations: CNN, Universitatea de Științe, Sound Locations: Praga

☆ Au ucis milioane de oameni nevinovați. Cine sunt cei mai sângeroși dictatori ai ultimului secol
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

A fost pentru prima oară când a fost folosit acest cuvânt – genocid. În timpul domniei sale, a atacat mai multe țări din Asia și a cauzat moartea a peste cinci milioane de oameni. Stalin a fost inițiatorul Marii Epurări, o campanie prin care cei ce se opuneau ideilor sale mureau prin execuție. Era obsedat de putere și politici fasciste, și a dat startul militarizării care a dus la Al Doilea Război Mondial. Cifrele se ridică la 6 milioane de evrei și 1,5 milioane de rromi, sau un total de 17 milioane de oameni.

Persons: Ismail Enver Paşa, Enver Paşa, Hideki Tōjō, Adolf Hitler, Iosif Vissarionivici Stalin, Stalin, Iosif Stalin, . Adolf Hitler A, Reich, Mao Zedong Organizations: Armean, Armata Imperială Japoneză, Ministrul Comerțului, Armatei, ministrul Educației, Uniunii Sovietice, Culturală Locations: Ismail, Imperiului Otoman, Balcanice, Asia, Uniunii, Rusia, Epurări, Gulag, Germaniei, Berlin, chinez

☆ Scrisoare deschisă semnată de o profesoară de limbă română: „Examenul de BAC – modalitate de exterminare a învățământului în Basarabia”
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +21 min

În această ordine de idei, examenul de bacalaureat a fost comentat și de profesoara de limbă română Veronica Postolachi. Cum oare, în ziua BAC-ului la română, plesneau rețelele în căutarea a tot ce ține de Vieru și Stănescu? Poezia a fost publicată, inițial, în anul 1988 (vol. Am depistat similitudini cu…: a depista = a descoperi ceva tăinuit, a identifica, a afla, a găsi. Media 10 la examenul de bacalaureat a fost obținută, până în acest moment, de către 16 candidați, în comparație cu 11 în 2019, la aceeași etapă a sesiunii.

Persons: Veronica, Veronica Postolachi, Vieru, Stănescu, . Aceștia, C . Negruzzi, Vasile Voiculescu, Nichita, Grigore Vieru, Brâncuși, Stănescu ., N . Stănescu, Ana, ., . It, Niculae, Felix Sima, Gheorghe, Ștefan Paul, Tudor Șoimaru, Ionuț Jder, Jderi, M . Sadoveanu, Horia, L . Rebreanu, Ionuț, Picasso, Ștefan cel Mare, Dante Alighieri, Blaga, hal, Florea M, Popov S, Condrea I, A, Savin L . Locations: Moldova, Basarabia, Everestul, Prut, București, Iași, Pitești, I

Apa menajeră din canalizare a ajuns, evident, în apa potabilă, pentru că cele două erau din 1977, iar termenul de exploatare demult expirase. De asemenea, CtEDO a constatat că a avut loc ingerință în drepturile reclamantului, din motiv că integritatea fizică a acestuia a fost afectată de un mediu nesănătos. Apa ne îmbolnăvește, apa ne trateazăÎn total, cinci persoane au ajuns la spital după ce au consumat apă infestată de la robinet. La Ciulucani, Telenești, abia trei ani în urmă a fost dat în exploatare complexul de aprovizionare cu apă potabilă a localității. Stația tratează și apa care ajunge în cele două fântâni.

Persons: de Justiție, Călărășeanca, CtEDO, Ludmila, amoniul, Nefrologul Boris Sasu, Cantemir, arsenul Organizations: de, Curtea Europeană, Drepturilor, Băncii Mondiale, Ministerul Agriculturii, Academia, Științe, Revista, Universității de Stat Locations: Călărași, Republicii Moldova, Ciulucani, Telenești, Orhei, Bălți, Moldova, Hollywood, Florești, Soroca, Republica Moldova, Glodeni, Fălești, Ungheni, Hîncești Căușeni, Criuleni, Nisporeni, Găgăuzia, Ștefan Vodă, Căușeni, Anenii Noi, Taraclia, Cahul, Hîncești, Dondușeni, Vulcănești, Leova, Toyama, Japonia

Apa menajeră din canalizare a ajuns, evident, în apa potabilă, pentru că cele două erau din 1977, iar termenul de exploatare demult expirase. De asemenea, CtEDO a constatat că a avut loc ingerință în drepturile reclamantului, din motiv că integritatea fizică a acestuia a fost afectată de un mediu nesănătos. La Ciulucani, Telenești, abia trei ani în urmă a fost dat în exploatare complexul de aprovizionare cu apă potabilă a localității. Stația tratează și apa care ajunge în cele două fântâni. Concentrația nitraților (NO3) în apa potabilă peste norma admisă este o problemă.

☆ Rodica Rusu Gramma, expert în politici de sănătate: Deputații Platformei DA s-au implicat cel mai activ în problemele sistemului de sănătate. Au fost unicii care au dovedit că le pasă și au curaj
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( Https | Www.Facebook.Com Unimedia.Info | Bogdan Țîrdea | ) unimedia.info time to read: +11 min

În mod normal, acest serviciu trebuia să fie actorul principal în gestionarea și controlul pandemiei, dar nu a fost nici pe departe așa. În regim de urgență a fost inițiată dotarea unora dintre ele cu sisteme centralizate de oxigen. Însă acest lucru trebuia de făcut cu mult înainte de pandemie... O altă problemă acută a fost și cea a resurselor umane, despre care vorbim ani la rând! A fost foarte greu, dar sistemul a rezistat doar datorită oamenilor care activează în el. Astfel de reglementări sunt necesare pentru protecția medicului și pentru asigurarea drepturilor pacientului de a manifesta nemulțămirea și a fi compensat în caz de prejudicii cauzate de actul medical.

Persons: Dna Gramma, Medici, Rodica Gramma, Nicolae Testemițanu Organizations: Medicilor, Mondiale, OMS, Poporului Locations: Republica Moldova, Europa, Chișinău, Legislativ, Rennes, Franța, RM, Geneva

☆ Rodica Rusu Gramma, expert în managementul sănătății: Deputații Platformei DA s-au implicat cel mai activ în problemele sistemului de sănătate. Au fost unicii care au dovedit că le pasă și au curaj
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( Https | Www.Facebook.Com Unimedia.Info | Ion Ceban | ) unimedia.info time to read: +11 min

„Fetița a fost internată cu un traumatism cranio-cerebral, traumatism la nivelul membrelor superioare. Medicii sunt optimiști în acest sens”, ne-a spus purtătorul de cuvânt a Institutului Mamei și Copilului, Maxim Cazacu. Un grav accident rutier s-a produs ieri pe traseul M-3, în apropierea satului Horești din raionul Ialoveni. Un tânăr de 19 ani de la volanul unui BMW s-a tamponat cu un Volkswagen T 5, condus de un bărbat de 28 de ani. Un copil de 5 ani din Volkswagen a decedat la fața locului, iar trei persoane cu diferite leziuni corporale în stare gravă, au fost transportate la spital, printre care o minoră de 10 ani.

Persons: Maxim Cazacu Organizations: BMW, Volkswagen Locations: Ialoveni

☆ Un tânăr a decedat după ce a leșinat în timpul unui examen de BAC
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-12 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +1 min

Un tânăr a decedat după ce a leșinat în timpul unui examen de BACUn tânăr în vârstă de 18 ani a murit la două zile după ce a leșinat în timpul unui examen de bacalaureat. Băiatul era elev la Colegiul Financiar-Bancar și și-a pierdut cunoștința la proba de limba română, pe care o susținea în incinta centrului de BAC, situat în clădirea Liceului „B.P.Hașdeu” din capitală, transmite IPN. Băiatul locuia în satul Măgdăcești, raionul Criuleni. Primara de Măgdăcești Liuba Cojocaru a precizat că elevul era singurul copil în familie. Tânarul a fost educat de mamă și de bunică, întrucât tatăl a decedat când copilul avea doar șapte ani.

Persons: Liuba Cojocaru, Liubei Cojocaru, Tânarul Organizations: Bancar Locations: Măgdăcești, Criuleni

☆ Detalii despre tânărul din Măgdăcești care a decedat la două zile după ce i s-ar fi făcut rău în timpul susținerii primei probe a examenului de Bacalaureat
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-11 | by ( Mudrii Elena | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Un tânăr din satul Măgdăcești, raionul Criuleni, student în anul trei al Centrului de Excelenţă în Economie şi Finanţe din Chișinău, a decedat la două zile după ce, pe 8 iunie, i s-ar fi făcut rău în timpul probei de examen la limba și literatura română. Fostul director al Centrului de Excelenţă în Economie şi Finanţe, profesorul Gabriel Palade, a declarat pentru Ziarul de Gardă că „băiatului i s-a făcut rău la examen și a fost luat de ambulanță. Purtătoarea de cuvânt a Institutului de Neurologie și Neurochirugie (INN), Dorina Blîndescu, a declarat pentru Ziarul de Gardă că tânărul a fost internat în secția Terapie Intensivă și supus unei intervenții chirurgicale. „A intrat în comă la scurt timp după internare și a decedat joi spre vineri. Ministerul Educației, Culturii și Cercetării nu a venit deocamdată cu o reacție.

Persons: Elevul, Bogdan Petriceicu, Gabriel Palade, Dorina Blîndescu Organizations: Ministerul Educației, Culturii, Cercetării Locations: Criuleni, Chișinău, INN

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