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Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine

by Timothy J. Jorgensen

Marie Curie in one of her mobile X-ray units in October 1917. Eve Curie

Ask people to name the most famous historical woman of science and their answer will likely be: Madame Marie Curie. Push further and ask what she did, and they might say it was something related to radioactivity. (She actually discovered the radioisotopes radium and polonium.) Some might also know that she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. (She actually won two.)

But few will know she was also a major hero of World War I. In fact, a visitor to her Paris laboratory 100 years ago would not have found either her or her radium on the premises. Her radium was in hiding and she was at war.

For Curie, the war started in early 1914, as German troops headed toward her hometown of Paris. She knew her scientific research needed to be put on hold. So she gathered her entire stock of radium, put it in a lead-lined container, transported it by train to Bordeaux – 375 miles away from Paris – and left it in a safety deposit box at a local bank. She then returned to Paris, confident that she would reclaim her radium after France had won the war.

With the subject of her life’s work hidden far away, she now needed something else to do. Rather than flee the turmoil, she decided to join in the fight. But just how could a middle-aged woman do that? She decided to redirect her scientific skills toward the war effort; not to make weapons, but to save lives.

X-rays enlisted in the war effort

X-ray of a bullet in the heart. U.S. Army

X-rays, a type of electromagnetic radiation, had been discovered in 1895 by Curie’s fellow Nobel laureate, Wilhelm Roentgen. As I describe in my book “Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation,” almost immediately after their discovery, physicians began using X-rays to image patients’ bones and find foreign objects – like bullets.

But at the start of the war, X-ray machines were still found only in city hospitals, far from the battlefields where wounded troops were being treated. Curie’s solution was to invent the first “radiological car” – a vehicle containing an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment – which could be driven right up to the battlefield where army surgeons could use X-rays to guide their surgeries.

One major obstacle was the need for electrical power to produce the X-rays. Curie solved that problem by incorporating a dynamo – a type of electrical generator – into the car’s design. The petroleum-powered car engine could thus provide the required electricity.

One of Curie’s mobile units used by the French Army. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

Frustrated by delays in getting funding from the French military, Curie approached the Union of Women of France. This philanthropic organization gave her the money needed to produce the first car, which ended up playing an important role in treating the wounded at the Battle of Marne in 1914 – a major Allied victory that kept the Germans from entering Paris.

More radiological cars were needed. So Curie exploited her scientific clout to ask wealthy Parisian women to donate vehicles. Soon she had 20, which she outfitted with X-ray equipment. But the cars were useless without trained X-ray operators, so Curie started to train women volunteers. She recruited 20 women for the first training course, which she taught along with her daughter Irene, a future Nobel Prize winner herself.

The curriculum included theoretical instruction about the physics of electricity and X-rays as well as practical lessons in anatomy and photographic processing. When that group had finished its training, it left for the front, and Curie then trained more women. In the end, a total of 150 women received X-ray training from Curie.

Not content just to send out her trainees to the battlefront, Curie herself had her own “little Curie” – as the radiological cars were nicknamed – that she took to the front. This required her to learn to drive, change flat tires and even master some rudimentary auto mechanics, like cleaning carburetors. And she also had to deal with car accidents. When her driver careened into a ditch and overturned the vehicle, they righted the car, fixed the damaged equipment as best they could and got back to work.

In addition to the mobile little Curies that traveled around the battlefront, Curie also oversaw the construction of 200 radiological rooms at various fixed field hospitals behind the battle lines.

Medics at a French WWI field hospital locating a bullet with X-ray machine. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

X-rays’ long shadow for Marie Curie

Although few, if any, of the women X-ray workers were injured as a consequence of combat, they were not without their casualties. Many suffered burns from overexposure to X-rays. Curie knew that such high exposures posed future health risks, such as cancer in later life. But there had been no time to perfect X-ray safety practices for the field, so many X-ray workers were overexposed. She worried much about this, and later wrote a book about X-ray safety drawn from her war experiences.

Curie survived the war but was concerned that her intense X-ray work would ultimately cause her demise. Years later, she did contract aplastic anemia, a blood disorder sometimes produced by high radiation exposure.

Many assumed that her illness was the result of her decades of radium work – it’s well-established that internalized radium is lethal. But Curie was dismissive of that idea. She had always protected herself from ingesting any radium. Rather, she attributed her illness to the high X-ray exposures she had received during the war. (We will likely never know whether the wartime X-rays contributed to her death in 1934, but a sampling of her remains in 1995 showed her body was indeed free of radium.)

Marie Curie and her daughter Irène in the laboratory after WWI. © Association Curie Joliot-Curie

As science’s first woman celebrity, Marie Curie can hardly be called an unsung hero. But the common depiction of her as a one-dimensional person, slaving away in her laboratory with the single-minded purpose of advancing science for science’s sake, is far from the truth.

Marie Curie was a multidimensional person, who worked doggedly as both a scientist and a humanitarian. She was a strong patriot of her adopted homeland, having immigrated to France from Poland. And she leveraged her scientific fame for the benefit of her country’s war effort – using the winnings from her second Nobel Prize to buy war bonds and even trying to melt down her Nobel medals to convert them to cash to buy more.

She didn’t allow her gender to hamper her in a male-dominated world. Instead, she mobilized a small army of women in an effort to reduce human suffering and win World War I. Through her efforts, it is estimated that the total number of wounded soldiers receiving X-ray exams during the war exceeded one million.

About The Author:

Timothy J. Jorgensen is Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University

This article is republished from our content partners at The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Miriam McDonald developed postpartum depression after giving birth to her third son, Nicholas. She says she felt sad, disconnected, and indifferent.

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Miriam McDonald developed postpartum depression after giving birth to her third son, Nicholas. She says she felt sad, disconnected, and indifferent.

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When Miriam McDonald decided she wanted to have another baby at age 44, her doctor told her she had a better chance of winning the lottery. So when she got pregnant right away, she and her husband were thrilled. But within three days of giving birth to their son, in September 2019, everything turned.

“I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, what did I do?’ I just brought this baby into this world and I can barely take care of myself right now,” she says. “I feel exhausted. I haven’t slept in three days. I haven’t really eaten in three days.”

As the weeks went by, her depression got worse. She felt sad, but also indifferent. She didn’t want to hold her baby, she didn’t want to change him. She says she felt no connection with him at all.

This confused her – she never felt anything like this after her first two kids – and she worried her mood might hurt her son. Untreated postpartum depression can affect babies’ cognitive and social development. For the mother, it can be life or death. Suicide accounts for 20% of maternal deaths.

“Every day, I was crying. Every day, I felt like I just wanted to die. Every day, I thought about ending my life,” says McDonald, who lives in Vacaville, Calif. and works as an IT professional at the University of California, Davis.

She went to Kaiser Permanente, her healthcare provider, for help. She says doctors there put her on a merry-go-round of medication trial and error. The first drug her doctor prescribed made her anxious. Upping the dose of a second drug gave her horrific nightmares. A third drug gave her auditory and visual hallucinations that took seven weeks to go away after she stopped taking it.

Then, her psychiatrist retired. And when McDonald complained to her new psychiatrist that she was still depressed, four months after giving birth, the physician suggested more medications.

“I was desperate,” McDonald said. “I was like, ‘I’m trying to help myself, but things are just getting worse.’ So what am I left with?”

She started doing her own research and learned about a new treatment, called brexanolone. It’s the first and only drug approved by the FDA specifically to treat postpartum depression, which affects 1 out of 8 new mothers in the U.S. Instead of targeting the serotonin system in the brain, like many antidepressants, brexanolone replenishes a hormone metabolite that gets depleted after childbirth — allopregnanolone. Some doctors call allopregnanolone, which is produced by progesterone, “nature’s Valium” because it helps regulate neurotransmitters that affect mood. After giving birth, natural levels of estrogen, progesterone and allopregnanolone all plummet rapidly, making some women vulnerable to postpartum depression. Brexanolone is a synthetic version of allopregnanolone, delivered through an IV infusion over the course of 60 hours. It costs $34,000.

In clinical trials, 75% of women who got brexanolone started to feel better immediately after the 3-day treatment. Half the women went into remission. In the placebo group, 56% of women responded and a quarter went into remission. In practice, doctors are seeing the effectiveness of the drug in the field that mirror the results of the trials.

“People walk out of the hospital, wanting to be with their child, wanting to return home,” said Dr. Riah Patterson, who has been treating women with brexanolone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since it became available in the summer of 2019. “There is a hopefulness, a brightness. You can really see that transformation in the hospital room over those 60 hours. It’s pretty miraculous.”

For the first year of her son’s life, Miriam McDonald says all her smiles were fake or strained. She struggled to find effective treatment for severe postpartum depression.

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McDonald wanted to try it.

But when she asked her doctor for brexanolone, she was told no. In an email, the doctor wrote that the existing studies were “not very impressive.” She added that McDonald did not meet Kaiser Permanente’s criteria for the drug: she would first have to try — and fail to improve with — four medications and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) before she could try brexanolone. And she had to be six months or less postpartum to try it at all. For Miriam, the clock had run out. She wondered, How could anyone qualify?

“This is crazy. By the time you even try one drug, that’s like four weeks out,” she says. “Another drug is four weeks out, another drug is four weeks out. There’s just no way.”

Kaiser Permanente’s guidance is an outlier. An analysis of guidelines from a dozen health plans revealed that three of them require women to fail treatment with at least one other medication before trying brexanolone. One plan, California’s Medicaid program for low-income women, requires two fails. But Kaiser is the only system NPR found that recommends women first fail four drugs, as well as ECT.

“That’s absurd. So I’m assuming no woman will ever have the opportunity to try brexanolone?” says UNC’s Patterson, one of several experts in postpartum depression who questioned Kaiser’s guidance.

“That is abusive,” says Bethany Sasaki, who runs the Midtown Birth Center in Sacramento and is licensed to administer brexanolone. “Asking someone to fail four oral antidepressants is an unacceptable burden that will undoubtedly create more harm than good.“

Psychiatrist Shannon Clark, who’s been administering brexanolone at UC Davis Medical Center for the last two years, seeing positive results, says there are a lot of reasons new moms may not be candidates for one medication, let alone four: taking pills while breastfeeding could be too anxiety-provoking; some women may not be able to adhere to a daily pill regimen; or they may have a liver condition that contraindicates those medications. Clark called Kaiser’s guidance “terrible” and “insane.”

It could also be illegal, according to some California lawmakers and mental health advocates. Under a California state law that took effect this January, health plans must conform to generally accepted standards of care, including scientific literature and expert consensus, when making decisions about mental health treatment.

“If Kaiser is making it effectively impossible to get a particular, important mental health treatment, that could definitely be a violation of our parity law,” says State Senator Scott Wiener, the bill’s author.

Kaiser officials responded by saying they always follow the law. They also say its integrated structure — as both the health insurer and the health provider — makes it different from traditional insurers. At Kaiser, a patient’s doctor determines whether a medication is appropriate, not the health plan, and the criteria doctors use are recommendations, not requirements or pre-requisites that patients need to “exhaust,” says Dr. Maria Koshy, Kaiser’s chair of psychiatry for Northern California.

“At the end of the day, this is an individual clinical decision by both the provider – the physician – and the patient,” she says.

But inside Kaiser, the workplace culture is such that doctors are expected to follow these recommendations, according to former Kaiser clinicians who spoke on background — as well as legislative experts familiar with Kaiser’s model. They say that when Kaiser doctors deviate from the recommendations, they can get questioned or even face consequences.

“These physicians know that if they start routinely ignoring these bad recommendations, that that could have impacts on them professionally,” says Wiener, who has worked on several bills aimed at regulating Kaiser and other insurers in California. “Whether it’s couched as a recommendation or a requirement is almost irrelevant. It has the same effect.”

To McDonald, her physician seemed to follow the recommended criteria as if they were requirements when she declined to prescribe brexanolone. Another patient, Yesenia Munoz, got a similar response when she sought brexanolone treatment. Kaiser’s grievance department sent her a letter denying the request because she had not failed enough medications.

“When I talked to the caseworker at Kaiser that had denied the medication, he said that Zulresso was very expensive,” said Muñoz, referring to brexanolone’s brand name.

In addition to the $34,000 cost for brexanolone, the three-day hospital stay can tack on another $30,000, at least. Another complicating factor is the FDA requirement that health centers obtain a special certification to infuse brexanolone, because of the risks of excessive sedation or fainting from the drug. Kaiser Permanente doesn’t have the certifications yet to administer the treatment at its own hospitals, so it must pay outside hospitals to provide it for Kaiser patients. Kaiser officials say they have plans to eventually open three of their own certified centers in Northern California.

Muñoz, 35, was devastated by the denial. She was overwhelmed by postpartum depression and anxiety shortly after her daughter was born in August 2020. But none of the medications or therapies Kaiser offered her worked. Four months after giving birth, she still felt suicidal.

“I could get out the door sometimes and take the stroller and go walk, and my mind kept on saying, ‘If you just step in front of the car, it’s all going to go away,” she remembers.

After Yesenia Muñoz appealed to state regulators and received brexanolone, she says she felt calm and “happy enough to want to live.”

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After Yesenia Muñoz appealed to state regulators and received brexanolone, she says she felt calm and “happy enough to want to live.”

Rafael Munoz

Muñoz got help from family members and co-workers to appeal Kaiser’s decision to the state, and after reviewing her medical records, regulators ordered Kaiser to pay for the brexanolone treatment.

Muñoz received the treatment at UC Davis Medical Center, and she started feeling better within the first day.

“The nurse came in and she said something funny and I laughed,” Muñoz says. “It was the first time I had laughed in so long.”

She started looking through photos and videos of her daughter on her phone and she says it was like she was experiencing those moments for the first time. She started making plans for the future.

“It was like a switch flicked and it made me happy enough to want to live,” she says. “It saved my life.”

Sage Therapeutics, the makers of brexanolone, says Kaiser’s approach to the new drug reflects a “a lack of a sense of urgency for treating mental health.” Dr. Steve Kanes, Sage’s chief medical officer, says the company is working on making the treatment more accessible. Its biggest challenge has been getting enough health centers certified, across a wide enough geography, to reach women who need it. The company is studying a pill form of allopregnanolone that could eliminate the need for a hospital stay, but Kanes says that is still not close to being commercially available.

In 2008, Congress passed a landmark federal law aimed at correcting disparities between how insurers pay for mental health treatments compared to physical health. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was later reinforced by provisions in the Affordable Care Act in 2010. But insurers found loopholes, creating overly restrictive or self-serving criteria that made it easy to deny services for mental health care, and as a result, save money.

California’s new law, SB 855, aimed to tighten those loopholes, and has been hailed by advocates as a national model for mental health reform. It requires health plans to use clinically-based, expert-recognized criteria and guidelines in making medical decisions, with the goal of limiting arbitrary or cost-driven denials for treatments of mental health or substance use disorders.

Kaiser operates in 8 states and Washington, DC. In California, it is the largest insurer, holding a 40% share of the market, covering 9.2 million patients. Kaiser officials have questioned how the new state law applies to the Kaiser system, given its unique integrated structure as both health insurer and medical provider. For example, Dr. Maria Koshy, the Kaiser psychiatrist, told NPR that SB 855’s requirement to comply with generally accepted standards of care “does not apply” to its brexanolone recommendations because they were developed and are used by the doctors, not the health plan administrators. When NPR asked Kaiser to provide the brexanolone policy its health plan uses for grievances or appeals, it said it didn’t have one.

“We 100% intended this law to apply to the care people get at Kaiser,” says Julie Snyder, government affairs director at the Steinberg Institute, which co-sponsored the law. “There is no place where we say Kaiser is exempt” because of its integrated structure.

Doctors at Kaiser have historically been “gatekeepers” for services in the system, more so than doctors who work with traditional insurers, says Meiram Bendat, an attorney and licensed psychotherapist who also advised legislators as the law was being drafted. It doesn’t matter if practice recommendations for brexanolone were written by doctors or administrators, or whether the recommendations are mandatory or optional, Bendat says, they must be in compliance with the law.

“If it’s inconsistent with generally accepted standards of care, then it has no place in California,” he says.

Some of Kaiser’s recommended criteria for brexanolone are aligned with generally accepted standards of care; for example, reserving the drug for women who are six months or less postpartum, which was a criterion used in the clinical trials the FDA relied on when it approved the drug.

But the recommendation that patients first try four or five alternative depression treatments before considering brexanolone conflicts with the judgment of half a dozen women’s health experts interviewed for this story. They say there just isn’t enough time to do that in the postpartum period — and too much is at stake.

Not only are babies at risk of developmental and emotional problems if their mother is depressed, husbands and partners are also at higher risk for depression and anxiety. And because new moms are learning to breastfeed, and figuring out what’s part of the new normal and what’s not, it can take months just to realize there’s a problem, explains UNC’s Dr. Riah Patterson.

“It takes so long for this illness to come to recognition and for someone to actually get into an appointment and actually be seen by a provider,” she says.

Dr. Riah Patterson, a specialist in perinatal psychiatry, discusses patients and treatment plans with her trainee, a 3rd year psychiatry resident at the Center for Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Indeed, the FDA fast tracked the approval of brexanolone in part because of how well and how quickly it worked, allowing women to feel better and get back to their families in three days.

“It’s new, it’s promising,” says Kaiser’s Dr. Koshy, but adds that “it’s not a benign medication.” Six women in the clinical trials felt faint or fainted, which is why the FDA requires women to be continuously monitored in certified health centers when getting the medication.

Also, the safety and efficacy data is limited, Koshy says. The clinical trials only compared brexanolone to placebo, not to alternative treatments. So while the data show brexanolone works better than nothing, there’s no data on whether it works better than drugs like Zoloft, or better than electroconvulsive therapy.

Women who received the placebo in the trials also showed improvement in depressive symptoms — which is common in studies of depression treatments — but more women who received brexanolone showed improvement, and their improvement was more substantial and lasted longer, especially if their depression was more severe before treatment. Women with moderate depression who received the placebo did just as well, 30 days after treatment, as those who received brexanolone, which could be because they felt better on their own, or because other antidepressants they were allowed to take during the trial finally kicked in.

Koshy says Kaiser is always reviewing practice recommendations as new evidence becomes available, but also acknowledged that Kaiser’s recommendations for brexanolone have not been updated since they were first developed two years ago, in July 2019.

Two weeks after this story first aired in Northern California, Koshy informed NPR that Kaiser Permanente is now reviewing the recommendations. She also added that Kaiser had recently communicated with its physicians that the recommendation to try four medications and ECT before considering brexanolone actually applied to a woman’s entire lifetime, not just treatments attempted in the postpartum period. Kaiser confirmed that it did not write this into the recommendations themselves, and declined to offer details about how this information was shared with physicians.

It is unclear what role California’s Department of Managed Health Care, the state agency that regulates Kaiser, might play in resolving issues of access to the infusion. In a statement, department officials said they will review any criteria or guidelines the Kaiser health plan uses for brexanolone, but the department does not have jurisdiction over physician decisions.

The department also monitors patient complaints when new medications or treatments begin to be used, in order to identify problems with access to care. So far, the Department has received two complaints about brexanolone – both were filed by Kaiser patients.

One was Yesenia Munoz. The other was Miriam McDonald.

Before going to the state, McDonald called Kaiser’s grievance department to complain about her treatment and the denial of brexanolone. Kaiser responded by sending the cops to her house for a welfare check.

The officers were calm and nice, McDonald said, but when she closed the door, she cried her eyes out.

“It just brought me to a whole new low,” she said. “Why didn’t my doctor call me and talk to me first? I mean, this is how you treat postpartum mental health? How dare you.”

Kaiser told NPR it cannot comment on any individual cases because of privacy laws, but that generally, “We feel deep compassion for any patient experiencing the difficult and serious effects of postpartum depression, and our goal is always to support every patient’s safe return to a healthy mental state.”

McDonald then appealed Kaiser’s denial of brexanolone to state regulators, but by that time, she was past the six-month postpartum cutoff.

She never got brexanolone.

Still, she continued to fight for relief and eventually got Kaiser to cover a different treatment for severe depression, transcranial magnetic stimulation, which uses an electromagnetic coil to stimulate nerve cells in the brain that control mood. That typically costs about $300 per session, and McDonald went in for the treatment five days a week, for three months. Now she is finally feeling like herself again.

After her efforts to get brexanolone failed, Miriam McDonald received transcranial magnetic stimulation at Kaiser Permanente to treat her postpartum depression. She says her mood started to really improve when her son was about 18 months old.

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“I can remember I woke up one day and I was excited. I had actual joy,” she says. “I got up and I walked into his room and I was like, ‘Hey, Nico! Hi! Hey, baby!’ And he jumped up from his crib and giggled and put his arms out. And I just swooped him up in my arms and cried. Because I was like, ‘I am so proud to be your mom.'”

Now when her son smiles at her, she genuinely smiles back. But it took more than 18 months to get here. She can’t help but grieve all the smiles she didn’t return in that time, and how she felt like she was barely present at crucial times, like when her son took his first steps.

“I felt like I’ve been robbed of all those moments,” she says, “of those little milestones, that I’m never going to get back.”

This story comes from NPR’s health reporting partnership with KQED and Kaiser Health News (KHN).

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Demand for covid vaccines is slowing across most of California, but as traffic at vaccination sites eases, the vaccination rates across the state are showing wide disparities.

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In Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, nearly 67% of residents 16 and older have had at least one dose as of Wednesday, compared with about 43% in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles. Statewide, about 58% of eligible residents have received at least one dose.

The differences reflect regional trends in vaccine hesitancy and resistance that researchers have been tracking for months, said Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan think tank.

In a PPIC survey released Wednesday, only 5% of respondents in the San Francisco Bay Area and 6% of those in Los Angeles said they wouldn’t be getting vaccinated. But that share is 19% in the Inland Empire and 20% in the Central Valley.

“More urban areas might be hitting a wall, but their number of shots given is higher,” said Bonner. “The rural areas might be hitting a wall maybe even before, but their shots given isn’t quite as high.”

Infectious disease experts estimate that anywhere from 50% to 85% of the population would need to get vaccinated to put a damper on the spread of the virus. But overall state numbers may mask pockets of unvaccinated Californians, concentrated inland, that will prevent these regions from achieving “herd immunity,” the point at which the unvaccinated are protected by the vaccinated. Epidemiologists worry that the virus may continue to circulate in these communities, threatening everyone.

The regional differences could be attributed, at least in part, to political opposition to the vaccine, said Bonner, as about 22% of Republicans and 17% of independents in the survey said they wouldn’t be getting the vaccine, compared with 3% of Democrats.

But officials and epidemiologists see some encouraging signs that the state has yet to hit a wall of vaccine refusal. “As a strongly blue state, one would expect that California is less likely than red states to hit a relatively low ceiling of vaccination, assuming that the access is good and the messaging is strong,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine.

As of Wednesday, 77% of seniors in California, and 68% of those ages 50 to 64, had received at least one dose of covid vaccine, according to a KHN analysis. These large percentages reflect the early vaccine eligibility of these age groups and are a hopeful sign considering how difficult it was to get a shot in the beginning of the year, said Rebecca Fielding-Miller, an assistant professor at the University of California-San Diego specializing in infectious diseases and public health.

“I’m very hopeful that addressing access would pick up at least another 10-15% before we need to really start addressing myths and hesitancy issues,” she said.

The state could see a new jump in vaccinations as workplaces, schools and event organizers begin to require the shots, Wachter said. For example, the University of California and California State University systems announced April 22 that their 1 million-plus students and staff members will be required to get vaccinated against covid once the shots are formally licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, likely to occur this summer.

Still, the red-blue political distinction on vaccination is meaningful within California as well as nationally. Despite depressed vaccine demand across the board, counties that lean conservative have lower rates of vaccinations.

In true-blue Los Angeles, 4.5 million first covid vaccine doses have been administered, meaning that about 55% of eligible Angelenos have gotten at least one shot.

But first-dose appointments at county-run sites were down at least 50% last week, said public health director Barbara Ferrer on Thursday. The county has opened several sites where people can walk in and get vaccinated without an appointment, but these walk-ins don’t make up for all of the unfilled spots.

Last week probably marked the first time the county did not administer 95% of the doses distributed to it, she said.

In San Diego and Orange counties, meanwhile, vaccination appointments are going unfilled or taking days to get booked up.

About 20% of appointments in Orange County started going unclaimed on April 25 and the slack has persisted, said Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, deputy health officer.

However, based on survey data from last winter indicating that about 58% of Orange County residents plan to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the county is still expecting more residents to seek out appointments. As of Sunday, about 49% of residents had received at least one dose.

In San Diego, officials expect all appointments to be filled despite the slowdown, said county spokesperson Michael Workman. About 54% of eligible residents had received at least one dose as of Wednesday.

In San Bernardino, the slowdown started in late March, said county spokesperson David Wert. Only 42% of county residents had gotten at least one dose as of Monday.

Across the state, officials are unclear on the extent to which hesitancy or lack of access to a vaccine are responsible for the slowdown.

Campaigns to educate, convince and reach out to people have started to pick up throughout the country, including targeted messaging for conservatives. Ten GOP doctors in Congress recently issued an ad urging their constituents to get vaccinated.

Santa Clara is shifting most county-run sites to enable walk-ins and expanding evening and weekend hours to make it easier for working people to get a shot. San Diego and San Bernardino are also allowing walk-ins.

Other counties are returning unused doses to the state to be redistributed, a bounty from which Los Angeles County has benefited, according to Barbara Ferrer, director of the county public health department. Representatives from Blue Shield and the California Department of Public Health would not say which counties are sending doses back.

California’s good pandemic news, which has enabled counties to reopen many businesses, is one of the challenges to getting less-than-enthusiastic people in for their shots right now, said Wachter of UCSF.

As of Thursday, California has one of the lowest case rates in the U.S. at 31.3 cases per 100,000 and a covid-test positivity rate of 1.3%.

“My hope is that a strong communication campaign, perhaps coupled with some degree of vaccine requirements, will get some people to jump off the fence,” Wachter said.

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ericfruits · 4 years

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Judge Reprimanded For DUI

Dan Trevas has a summary of a discipline matter on the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court

The Ohio Supreme Court today publicly reprimanded a Franklin County judge whose blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when she was arrested for drunken driving.

In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court reprimanded Judge Monica E. Hawkins, whose arrest came shortly after taking office as a newly elected member of the domestic relations and juvenile branch of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The Supreme Court found Judge Hawkins violated the rules requiring judges to comply with the law and act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the judiciary.

Judge Gets Lost Going Home Judge Hawkins won election to the bench in 2018 and assumed the role in early 2019. On Jan. 31, 2019, a Pickerington police officer responded to a 911 call around 8:30 p.m. alerting them to a suspected intoxicated driver. When stopped by the officer, Judge Hawkins told her she had gotten lost while driving home.

The officer smelled alcohol emanating from the vehicle and asked Judge Hawkins if she had been drinking. She replied, “No.” When the officer stated she smelled alcohol, Judge Hawkins replied, “No, I’m a judge and I was trying to get home but I just got lost.”

The officer noted a large knot on the judge’s forehead, which appeared to be bleeding. She asked the judge about the head injury, and she denied having an injury. When asked for her identification and proof of insurance, Judge Hawkins produced a driver’s license and a health-insurance card. The officer observed vomit on her coat and a large amount of vomit on the driver’s side floor of the vehicle.

A police sergeant arrived on the scene and approached the vehicle. Judge Hawkins handed her cell phone to the sergeant. Judge Hawkins’ bailiff was on the phone and was inquiring about the location of the incident so she could go to the scene.

Judge Hawkins was removed from her vehicle and failed several field sobriety tests. She was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence (OVI).

Judge Resists Intoxication Tests At the police station, Judge Hawkins refused to provide a breath sample, and the arresting officer informed her she would seek a warrant to draw blood. The judge was transported to a hospital to obtain a blood sample, but refused to submit to a blood draw. She was informed by police that they obtained a warrant and she could not refuse. Eventually, four hospital security officers held her down until blood was drawn.

She was then charged with OVI and a marked-lanes violation. A report would later confirm her blood alcohol level was 0.199, more than twice the legal limit of .08 percent.

In Fairfield Municipal Court, Judge Hawkins pleaded guilty to OVI, and the remaining charges were dismissed . She was sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended, and the opportunity to complete a 72-hour driver-intervention program in lieu of the three days in jail. She also paid a $375 fine, had her driver’s license suspended for one year, and was placed on one year of probation.

Conviction Leads to Rule Violation Based on the conviction , the Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed a complaint in August 2019 with the Board of Professional Conduct alleging Judge Hawkins violated two rules governing the conduct of Ohio judges.

The disciplinary counsel and Judge Hawkins suggested a public reprimand, and the board recommended that sanction to the Supreme Court.

“Operating a vehicle while intoxicated imperils public safety and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary,” the Court’s opinion stated.

The opinion noted other jurists have been reprimanded for driving under the influence, and judges have been reprimanded when, like Judge Hawkins, they invoked their status as a judge during their OVI arrests.

Along with the reprimand, Judge Hawkins was ordered to pay the costs of the disciplinary proceedings.

2020-0468. Disciplinary Counsel v. Hawkins, Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-4023.

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larrytcamp · 4 years

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5 Amazing Benefits of Intravenous Vitamin Therapy

In a perfect world, our diet regimens would provide us with the optimal quantity of crucial nutrients we need to not simply to make it through, but grow. Regrettably, modern living and also agricultural practices make it more challenging than you 'd assume.

In a time when the ordinary person is absolutely having problem with the fundamentals such as obtaining enough fresh air and also sleep, consuming a balanced diet plan that is suitably nutrient dense is testing, and also even when we attempt persistent tension, environmental pollutants, and also nutrient-depleted foods make it virtually impossible for us to get the variety of vitamins and minerals we actually need.

Additionally, there is mounting proof checking out the mineral thickness in the soil being gravely bad due to pesticide usage and various other modern farming methods.

And what of supplements?

Well, obviously, there is a role for supplements but concerns around compliance as well as top quality typically cause individuals still ultimately being underpowered.

Fortunately, Intravenous Vitamin Therapy (IV Therapy) has actually emerged as a great means to match our diet regimens and also provide our bodies ideal vitamin and minerals levels. This enables vital vitamins, minerals, and also amino acids to go right into our bloodstreams goes right to the cell, bypassing the digestive process.

At our clinic, we suggest these frequently to address myriad wellness problems as well as objectives or to amplify the job an individual has currently done, as well as it certainly plays a vital part in how we function to really optimize our people.

Vitamin infusions have actually been confirmed to help stop disease, treat infections, treat acute or persistent wellness conditions as well as offer us energy increases that make us feel revitalized as well as restored. As well as the most effective component is that there are so many, many succeeding advantages to enhancing our minerals and vitamin degrees.

Yet just how exactly do they function, and why are they so outstanding?

How IV Therapy Functions

In Ontario and in several other territories, to receive IV Treatment from a naturopathic doctor, you must first become their person. To do or prescribe IVs we must have an extra license to do so, and also with it comes a lot of certain training, education and learning and also ... even more board tests(!!).

This is provided for your very own security. It makes certain that somebody with top-level training will examine your medical history, family history, existing health and wellness obstacles as well as goals prior to they suggest a therapy of any kind. It is additionally vital since there are numerous solutions (as well as customization is additionally often done) and also success depends on getting the ideal prescriptions for YOU.

If Dr. Smith figures out that IV Treatment is appropriate for you, she will certainly examine your individual needs and also customize an infusion to assist restore your health.

The infusion is carried out through an intravenous drip, as well as are normally loosening up. We use an angiocath which suggests you can move your arm and also the experience is pain-free. Treatments most commonly take around 30 minutes but might use up to 120 minutes or longer depending upon the type of IV suggested.

Therapy regularity differs and is dependant on numerous variables. It can vary from once a week to monthly or as needed during times of high stress.

When is IV Vitamin Treatment most suggested?

IV Vitamin Therapy is good for:

Adrenal Fatigue

Anxiety as well as burnout

Pre and post-athletic event

Fatigue Syndrome

Severe viral/bacterial diseases as well as colds

Cleansing

Anxiousness

PMS

Anti-ageing

Parkinson's illness

Migraines & tension migraines

Macular degeneration

Fibromyalgia

Depression

Chronic disease

Allergies

Asthma

Chronic or severe muscle spasms

Why should you take into consideration IV Therapy?

Many people with deficiencies, persistent fatigue and also discomfort are required to jump from doctor to doctor without ever obtaining concrete answers as to what is wrong with them. Much of these individuals deal with nutrition shortages and other imbalances that may be assisted through IV therapy. This therapy is an unique that is extremely useful for sure problems because it achieves results.

Whether you intend to improve your power, enhance your total health and wellness, treat certain medical problems, or keep optimal wellness and service preventing future conditions, IV vitamin therapy can replenish the nutrients your body needs for optimum health.

1. Personalized, powerful treatments for lots of problems

Naturopathic doctor that offer IV treatment are extremely educated to determine clinical problems and also recommend proper IV treatments that attend to the dietary shortages and also treatment objectives of each client.

2. It's quick and also worthwhile

A lot of medications including vitamin supplements are taken by mouth, which indicates that they experience the gastrointestinal system. This procedure is slow and is totally subject to the individual having ideal digestion (which regretfully is unusual these days ...), and it limits the effect and accessibility of the nutrients. With IV therapy, we understand the vitamins are totally absorbed right into your cells to make sure that your body will certainly gain from them promptly.

In other words, you may start to really feel the positive results virtually instantly. Within a number of hrs to a day, you may really feel the result of the IV nutrients, as you'll have much more energy, have the ability to assume even more clearly as well as appreciate an enhanced state of mind.

3. It lowers your tablet load

Customized IV treatment permits you to cut down on the supplements decreasing expense with time as well as it's much less of a trouble.

4. It's risk-free

Naturopathic doctors who carry out IV Therapy have an entirely different and extra certificate to do so. To keep that license they have to do regular proceeding education.

Regulatory bodies in Ontario guarantee that NDs are trained at the highest degree and have the knowledge and ability to evaluate their clients for candidacy and safely administer the therapies. This is a real area of knowledge in the naturopathic clinical field.

It is extremely uncommon that any type of, also small unfavorable reaction or occasion accompanies IV treatment, nevertheless, a complete conversation concerning what to foresee as well as safety and security occurs at the clinic with a doctor.

5. It's THE ideal preventative treatment

Modern medication primarily rotates around responding to disease however has a little to no usage in the avoidance of it. This is a sad reality, yet you can't be everything to everybody - so give thanks to god for naturopathic medicine!!

IV therapy is various. When the body obtains correct amounts of nutrients, it helps treat illness by aiding the body do what it is created to do which is to attain homeostasis. Additionally, due to research, we know that higher dosages of specific nutrients will have a healing effect in certain circumstances..

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If you want to get your own vitamin drip treatment, visit http://www.theivlounge.ca/ located in Toronto, Ontario. Or call them at (647) 549-3484 for inquiries.

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Art Therapy and its Career Outlook

Art therapists are required to do a plethora of duties that are dedicated to helping the wellbeing of others through creative means. We will look into the education and training required to make licensing possible for aspiring art therapists. Additionally, this article will explore the hardships that come along while in the process of becoming an art therapist and what the career outlook looks like for the profession.

What kind of education and training is needed? What challenges do aspiring art therapists face?

As a requirement, those pursing art therapy must obtain their Bachelor’s degree in art or psychology, and the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) advises to get a Master’s degree in art therapy or counseling for an entry-level job in art therapy. In addition, the AATA requires students to complete a minimum of 100 hours of direct supervision in art therapy practice and 600 hours in a supervised art therapy internship while in a graduate program. However, graduate students have difficulty finding programs that are in line with art therapy practices and counseling.

After completing a program and the hours required, licensing is the next step toward becoming an art therapist and/or creating an art therapy practice. However, licensing varies across the United States.

Art therapist and psychologist, Cathy Malchiodi, explains how art therapy programs have changed. Programs have become modified in order to put graduates on a track to become licensed in counseling instead of art therapy. This is due to the lack of art therapy licenses available nationwide.

Although many states across the U.S. do not provide licenses for those pursuing art therapy, it is still a requirement to be licensed in order to formally practice art therapy and for independent practices to be considered legitimate. Because of this, many aspiring art therapists end up becoming social workers, licensed counselors, or psychologists in order to easily be able to practice art therapy.

In an art therapy podcast by Thirsty For Art, Yoong Jung describes her own experience on the path to becoming an art therapist and a trend she noticed about art therapy master’s programs. She noticed art therapy programs were changed and renamed along the lines of “Master’s in counseling with a specialization in art,” and she hypothesized that programs were doing this in order to increase graduates’ chances of finding a job in the mental health field and be able to apply for different mental health licenses, such as for social work licenses and therapy. It seems that these universities are modifying their art therapy programs in order to create a safety net for their graduates and provide them more opportunities. These programs have been modified in order to expand graduates’ opportunities on finding a job across the mental health field. In spite of programs that allow specialization in creative expression, it does not guarantee a higher demand for art therapists or an increase in art therapy job opportunities.

The figure below demonstrates which states offer licenses, those that are seeking to provide licenses, and those do not provide licenses for art therapists. The states in gray do not offer art therapy licenses; the states in violet recognize art therapy as their own profession but do not provide licensing; the states in blue-green allow those pursuing art therapy to become licensed under a different but related license; the states in blue are trying to advocate for an art therapy license; the states in green offer an art therapy license. If you are pursuing art therapy or any other field, It is important to recognize where you live and what your state offers in regard to that profession.

Due to the lack of licensing in some states and limited art therapy programs, it is difficult for aspiring art therapists to fully become practicing art therapists under an official title. These challenges impact who is able to enter into the art therapy profession.

Demographic of art therapy members?

Art therapist, Sarah Greenall, gives insight to her observations from with the art therapy field and explains how art therapy settings and practices lack diversity through her examination of two surveys conducted. These surveys shed light onto attitudes and perceptions held about the art therapy profession. Respondents from the two surveys were art therapists or in a different profession within the mental health field, and they reported that they assumed that most art therapists were women and regarded art therapy to be connected to female gender roles. Additionally, she explained how these perceptions about the art therapy field may influence the people’s decision of entering the field. Perceptions of those within the art therapy field may influence the demographics of the profession and what art therapy settings look like.

A 2011 membership survey report also highlights the lack of diversity present within the art therapy field. Additionally, Sara P. Deaver, a director of Eastern Virginia Medical Schools’ art therapy program, and David E. Elkins, a research associate, noted that the vast majority of art therapists were caucasian, female, and held a master’s degree. Assumptions and perceptions about gender influences who enters into the career, which impacts the career outlook for art therapy in the long run. The perceptions of who enters the profession influences people’s choice of selecting art therapy as a career path, especially for those who do not identify as white women. Perceptions may have an influence the overall demographics of art therapy.

Expected salary for art therapist?

The salaries of art therapists greatly influenced by the amount of experience an art therapist holds and the location of where they practiceBut according to an article for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, they consider art therapists as recreational therapists in order to estimate their salary. In populated areas, recreational therapists earned a higher salary than those in less populated areas.

The figure shown below illustrates the annual mean wages of therapist by state. The darkest areas have the highest annual mean wage (~$70,260-$90,900), whereas the lighter areas are much lower (~$42,650-$53,930). The areas in white do not have any data about the mean wages of therapists. Whether you are interested in pursuing art therapy or another career, you need to consider where you live when making decisions about entering the field.

In a 2016 membership survey from the American Art Therapy Association, about 28% reported salary ranges from $30,000-$49,999 and another 26% of the respondents reported that their salary ranged from $50,000-$79,999. It seems that the majority of art therapists have a salary that ranges between $30,000 and $80,000. However, due to low salaries in some areas of the U.S., it has deterred some art therapists from the art therapist field, and many have turned to other professions in the mental health field or creating their own art therapy practice.

The figure below illustrates the annual salary range based on the membership survey of 2016.

Salary is a factor that impacts the career outlook in different areas. It influences who enters the profession and where in the United States they enter into the art therapy field.

What is the career outlook of art therapy?

The education and training required, assumptions about the art therapy field, challenges regarding licensing and art therapy programs, and the expected salary all influence people’s career choices in becoming art therapists and who is able to enter into art therapy. It is essential to consider these challenges and requirements when investigating a specific career and considering the career outlook, especially in the art therapy field.

Overall, it seems that the career outlook for art therapy may be tough in the sense it is difficult to find a job under art therapy in areas that are not densely populated. However, there are mental health related job opportunities available where you can apply your passion for art and helping others to that field. There is a possibility that the future will see a big increase in art therapy jobs and create more recognition for the art therapy profession.

However, If you truly want to be an art therapist, you can always always use your art in service to others, whether it is through an actual art therapy practice or alternative paths. Whether you pursue art therapy or similar careers, you cannot forget that art can change lives for the better, and it is still a worthwhile journey to study art therapy. Even though there may not be many jobs under art therapy, there are still jobs out there where one could apply the knowledge and skills that they gained through these programs to another job. However uncertain the future may seem, you should never be discouraged from pursuing your passions. There will always be opportunities available, even in the face of hardship.

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