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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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A viral start for Katie Blomquist In the fall of 2016, when Katie Blomquist worked as a first-grade teacher at a Title I school in South Carolina, a boy in her class asked her for a bike for his birthday. We tend to think about our other basic needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter and medical support.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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It made history in 2023 with the first consumer sale of cultivated meat, which required approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Hims & Hers offers prescriptions from hair-loss medication to birth control pills to antidepressants—in all 50 states. That’s meat grown from animal cells.)

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. Dr. Rajinder Atwal Medical Director, CEO, Founder, Family Physician, M.D., She is the founder, CEO and medical director of Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice, which serves marginalized communities.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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A 2023 report from Gitnux reveals that more than half of U.S. In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. businesses currently offer these programs. When did corporate wellness programs begin to take hold? They use TaskHuman, which is free for employees.

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Legendary Entrepreneur Naveen Jain Wants Nothing More Than to Change the Way Humanity Lives

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Or maybe, looking at all your data, the artificial intelligence has already sent a prescription to a pharmacy and the medication is on the way to your home before you even realize there’s a problem, much less go to a doctor. This is why, in 2016, he founded Viome. Imagine a world when no one is sick,” he says. Photos by Mike Davello.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

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In November 2023, plans to turn part of a golf course next to a motorway into a £340 million science park were refused by South Oxfordshire District Council. What is striking is how weighted the country’s export figures are to the life sciences, medical and pharmaceutical industries craved by the UK.

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