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Winston-Salem Journal
Medicaid block grant proposal likely to draw advocates, legal opposition in North Carolina
“Agreeing to Medicaid expansion and doing so as part of an arrangement where federal Medicaid funds are sent to the state as a block grant would be of potential interest to Republican legislators in states that have so far opted against Medicaid expansion,” said politics professor John Dinant. “The challenge is that any Medicaid block-grant arrangement would certainly be tied up in lengthy legal challenges and may well not pass muster with federal courts.”
February 1, 2020
13News Now
Virginia’s legislator immunity clause: Traffic stop prompts questions about arrest immunity
Wake Forest state constitution expert John Dinan and University of Virginia expert A.E. Dick Howard said the origins of the immunity clause date back to English law. It was designed to protect lawmakers from interference or manipulation, preventing someone – or the executive branch – from gaming the system. For example, Dinan said, a delegate could be arrested on a minor charge and prevented from voting on a key issue.
January 31, 2020
The Conversation
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
“In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present evidence of a strong expert consensus,” said Wake Forest philosophy professor Adrian Bardon in an article written for The Conversation. “But things don’t work that way when the scientific consensus presents a picture that threatens someone’s ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue.”
January 31, 2020
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Wake Forest commemorates 50th anniversary of integrating residence halls
Wake Forest will commemorate the 50th anniversary of integrating its women’s residence halls this weekend. To memorialize the anniversary, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and Deborah Graves McFarlane, the first two African-American women to live on campus, will speak openly about their experiences of living in the residence halls. Alongside them, Awilda Neal, Linda Holiday and Camille Russell Love will share their stories as Black women at Wake Forest in the early 1970s as well.
January 30, 2020
Mcknight's Long-Term Care News
Can weighted vests replace strength training for bariatric residents
Using a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, investigators from Wake Forest will compare bone health outcomes in participants who wear weighted vests to outcomes in adults who participate in strength training. Bones respond to extra load and will grow when people put on pounds. Unfortunately, they can also lose density when weight is lost, and do not necessarily regrow – even if the weight is regained, putting older adults who lose large amounts of weight at risk of osteoporosis or osteopenia.
January 29, 2020
NPR
A $41,212 surgery bill compounded a patient’s appendicitis pain
A balance bill is the difference between what insurers pay toward a bill and a provider’s “list charges,” which facilities set themselves and which often bear little or no relationship to actual costs. If you get a balance bill after your insurer has paid the provider, experts advise check state laws and check with your state’s insurance regulators to see what protections you may have. Ask your insurer or employer to pay the bill or to negotiate a discount with the provider, said Mark Hall, a law professor at Wake Forest who studies contract law and medical billing issues.
January 29, 2020
USA Today
Everything you need to know about coronavirus, the deadly illness alarming the world
Pat Lord, teaching professor in the department of biology at Wake Forest, said this particular outbreak probably came from a virus that originated in bats and another animal, and then transformed to be able to infect humans. Health experts have confirmed human-to-human transmission in a number of countries. Similarly, SARS originated from a fruit bat that was transmitted to civet cats and then eaten as a delicacy in China, Lord said. “Bats seem to be a reservoir for quite a few viruses, like the rabies, Ebola or the Marburg virus.”
January 29, 2020
Gothamist
Kami Chavis, a law professor who directs the Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest School of Law, is an expert on hate crime laws and said it’s important for the federal government to step in and file charges. But she said it’s unusual for the federal government to do so when the Local prosecutor has already taken action. She questioned whether there could be political overtones given the controversy over New York’s new bail reform. “There’s been an uptick in hate crimes since 2016,” she noted. “Why now? Why this case? There’s so many other horrific cases where the federal government has not intervened.”
January 28, 2020
Men's Health
Is cardio or weight training your best option for losing weight? According to a study by Wake Forest, restricting calories combined with resistance training meant people were able to keep their muscle and still lose significant amounts of fat, when compared to adults who combined weight loss with walking or who simply tried to just lose weight by dieting. If you’re looking to lose weight then, pumping iron is the way to go.
January 27, 2020
Public Radio International
These scientists created a ‘cloud curtain’ in Peru’s tropical forests to mimic the future
The elevational gradient of flora in cloud forests is small, limiting species to a very narrow climatic range. “When we look at individual tree species, we can see them starting to shift themselves upslope,” said Miles Silman, a biologist at Wake Forest. In the past, cloud forests have been able to keep up with warming temperatures. “But the climate change we have now is an order of magnitude — about 30 times faster than things have changed in the past. It’s unclear whether things can keep up,” he said.
January 27, 2020
WalletHub
HSBC credit cards: Ask the experts
Bill Marcum, Wall Street Partners Faculty Fellow, undergraduate finance program director and associate professor of finance at the Wake Forest School of Business, answered questions about HSBC credit cards. In response to a question about HSBC’s small share of the U.S. credit market, Marcum said, “of course, HSBC is a giant in Europe. It made its first entry into the U.S. credit market with the purchase of Household (consumer credit) in 2003. That purchase eventually resulted in a $10.6 write-off in 2009, which was directly related to the ‘housing crisis’ — they loaded their balance sheet with subprime mortgages.” Though HSBC ran back to their well-understood home market, they have just begun to creep back into the U.S. credit card market.
January 27, 2020
Massive Science
Scientists recreated a key step for the origin of life at hydrothermal vents
Cassie Freund, Wake Forest ecologist and doctoral candidate, wrote an article for Massive Science about a novel study on hydrothermal vents and their ability to support life. Freund explained that, “scientific theories for how life evolved broadly fall into three categories.” One of those theories, she said, “hinges on the last major ecosystem discovered on our planet: deep-sea hydrothermal vents.” Although the hydrothermal vents “contain elements and conditions conducive to metabolic pathways that scientists believe were necessary for the evolution of life,” researchers have not been able to prove that cellular vesicles – necessary for life – can form in this environment. Recent finding show, however, that “beyond being merely acceptable for vesicle formation, very hot and alkaline conditions are actually ideal. While this study doesn’t prove that the genesis of life occurred on deep ocean vents, it shows that it is certainly a possibility.”
January 26, 2020