One of the key takeaways from the meeting, and from phase I of CHL UK, was that we tested and learned together for a whole year, but it’s now time to put our energy into what works.
A new report commissioned by Global NCAP has revealed that 34,000 Brazilian lives could be saved and 350,000 serious injuries prevented by 2030, if UN vehicle safety regulations were adopted and car manufacturers sought to achieve higher ratings in the Latin NCAP crash test programme.
In this issue of Art Therapy Today, Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LCAT, describes how art therapy can help reduce social isolation and loneliness in people with dementia by providing a new pathway for communication. Additionally, the AATA releases new details about how to support new professional art therapists during its #GivingTuesday campaign. Sara Windrem, the AATA Featured Member, discusses who inspired her career in art therapy and the methods she uses in her work with Veterans.
Diagnostic insights, and the timing of them, can change our outcomes when we’re facing cancer. But there’s still so much we need to learn about cancer, and there are still too many people who remain unaware of their ability to detect their risks early. Over the years, we’ve supported research and patient advocacy in the fight against cancer, with millions of dollars of corporate and employee giving and fundraising.
This issue features an important announcement from the AATA regarding recent world events, as well as an article by art therapists Abbien Crowley Ciucci and Hope Heffner, who describe the use of altered books with caregivers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Furthermore, the AATA has announced a new campaign through Network For Good that looks to raise funds to send up to 10 new professional art therapists to next year's annual conference. Featured AATA member Margaret Prescott, President of the Evergreen Art Therapy Association (EATA), discusses how membership has influenced her life and describes how her passion for art and helping others led her to art therapy.
Ted Bosworth from Family Practice News covered a recent collaboration between the Hampton VA Medical Center and the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) Art Therapy Program that represents the first of its kind: a randomized trial that examines art therapy treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within the VA.
Novartis today announced the launch of Novartis Access, a portfolio of 15 medicines to treat chronic diseases in low- and low-middle-income countries. The portfolio addresses cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer and will be offered to governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other public-sector healthcare providers for USD 1 per treatment, per month.
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today issued its 2014 global corporate responsibility report, which provides an overview of its priorities, programs and performance in the areas of Access to Health, Environmental Sustainability, Employees and Ethics & Transparency.
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