Mercury (element)

• A Muslim student at Michaela School in London has lost her High Court challenge against the school’s ban on prayer rituals.
• The school argued that the ban was put in place to avoid prayers “undermining inclusion”.
• But permitting religious diversity is a tradition in education in England.

Understanding secularism

• Michaela School has two-week holidays over the Christmas and Easter periods, and names them for these Christian festivals.
• The school week is Monday to Friday, which does not impinge upon the Christian day of rest.
• This is a version of secularism that benefits the members of one religion but not another.
• The state’s burgeoning financial involvement in education was accompanied by a pluralist approach to minority religions and denominations.

Matters of conscience

• It contained a conscience clause, allowing non-Anglican parents to withdraw their children from religious instruction.
• The end of Empire and the 1948 Nationality Act brought migrants to Britain from the Indian subcontinent.
• By the mid-1960s, Muslim children began to appear in schools in sufficient numbers that they were able to campaign collectively for the accommodation of their needs.
• And since the 1960s local education authorities and schools have accommodated Muslim needs within the same framework as those of Jews and Catholics.

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• The updated data set presented at ACC in Atlanta focuses on 46 patients from FOREST-HCM that had completed 48 weeks of follow-up at the time of the current interim analysis.
• At Week 48, 75% of these patients were receiving the 15 mg or 20 mg dose of aficamten.
• Additionally, there were significant improvements in NT-proBNP, a biomarker of cardiac wall stress, with an average decrease of 63% from baseline to week 48 (p
• There was a modest reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to Week 48 (mean change from baseline (SD) = -5.1 mg (5.9), p

• “These new long-term follow up data demonstrate AVIM therapy’s ability to drive a substantial and sustained reduction in 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure, the gold standard, and most accurate measure of hypertension.
• Each patient’s aSBP was measured an average of 3.6 (±0.6) years following original initiation of AVIM therapy.
• AVIM therapy is an investigational patented bioelectronic therapy, administered using a standard dual-chamber pacemaker, designed to immediately, substantially and persistently reduce blood pressure.
• Orchestra BioMed and Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) (“Medtronic”) formed a strategic collaboration for the development and commercialization of AVIM therapy for hypertensive pacemaker patients in July 2022.

• MIAMI, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthSnap , a leading virtual care management platform, and UnityPoint Health , the nation's fifth-largest non-denominational health system, announced today the continued expansion of their partnership, which went live in January 2023.
• The partnership, which includes both HealthSnap's Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) programs has successfully been delivered to over 25,000 UnityPoint Health patients across Iowa and Illinois.
• "UnityPoint Health is focused on providing easier and more personalized care for all those we serve, and by partnering with HealthSnap, we are able to seamlessly implement virtual care management programs for our patients living with chronic conditions," said Patricia Newland, MD, President of UnityPoint Clinic.
• "We are thrilled to be expanding our partnership with UnityPoint Health and integrating our virtual care management programs across their patient population," said HealthSnap Co-Founder & CEO, Samson Magid.