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Social Security Fury Over 'Inhumane' Treatment of Customers - Newsweek

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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are increasingly concerned about the Social Security Administration's (SSA) "inhumane" treatment of customers. Speaking during a congressional panel, politicians pressed Linda Kerr-David, Social Security's acting assistant deputy commissioner of operations, to defend what they described as widespread failures in the disability benefits system, including chronic claims backlogs and customer service phone delays. Republican Representative Drew Ferguson, chairman of the Social Security panel of the House Committee on Way and Means, called the consequences of the SSA issues "devastating." "Let me put this in plain English: the SSA is unable to keep up with the claims it has but is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get more claims, dollars that should instead be going to provide claimants with faster decisions," Ferguson said. "Meanwhile, the SSA is sitting on solutions that would modernize and streaml...

The pipeline for drugs for control and elimination of neglected ... - Parasites & Vectors

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World Health Organization. Ending the neglect to attain the sustainable development goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Google Scholar  Pfarr KM, Krome AK, Al-Obaidi I, Batchelor H, Vaillant M, Hoerauf A, et al. The pipeline for drugs for control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases: 1. Anti-infective drugs for regulatory registration. Parasites Vectors. 2023;16:82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05581-4. Article  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Kuesel AC. Research for new drugs for elimination of onchocerciasis in Africa. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2016;6:272–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpddr.2016.04.002. Article  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  World Health Organization. Guidelin...

Tufts Medical Center to pilot nutrition screening in EHR - Healthcare IT News

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By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine's Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food-is-medicine science with their data. They also aim to figure out how to address food and nutrition accessibility within the healthcare system. Proponents of food is medicine say food-based interventions could address one aspect of social determinants of health and improve health equity while they support the nutritional needs of patients with chronic diseases. At the international level, the World Health Organization focuses on food security and other challenges to address global health equity. As part of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity within the U.S., the Centers for Dise...

What is the role of Swiss domestic cats in environmental ... - Parasites & Vectors

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