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One way to avoid surprise hospital bills
Surprise hospital bills — often called “balance bills” — happen when out-of-network providers charge more than insurers pay and patients are responsible for paying the balance. By writing in their own limits, patients might have leverage. It isn’t easy to speak up, particularly in emergencies, which are already fraught. “I believe it would be legally effective,” said Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest. “However, it requires patients to be much more astute and well prepared than is typical in most surprise billing situations.”
February 25, 2020
Q-Notes
Easing funeral planning into the digital age
Ever Loved, a funeral planning website that helps users navigate the financial side of death, was launched in 2017 by CEO Alison Johnston. “People are changing their preferences in respect to how they want to memorialize and dispose of the dead at an incredibly rapid rate,” noted Tanya Marsh, a law professor at Wake Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law.
February 25, 2020
WalletHub
2020’s Best Unsecured Credit Cards for Bad Credit
Stephan Shipe, assistant teaching professor in the Wake Forest School of Business, answered common questions about unsecured credit cards. He explained that applying for an unsecured credit card only makes sense in a few specific cases. “It largely depends on why you have bad credit, to begin with. If your dismal credit score is due to your lack of being timely on payments and general difficulty paying and maintaining credit, then adding a credit card with a high-interest rate is likely to make the problem worse,” Shipe said.
February 25, 2020
MSN
Differences in how cardio and strength affect your health
The fitness world loves the debate: cardio or strength training? The reality is cardio and strength don’t need to be mutually exclusive – nor should they be. Research suggests that weight training is important when it comes to decreasing body fat. A Wake Forest study published in 2017 in the journal “Obesity” suggests that weight training – in combination with a low-calorie diet – can help older adults become slimmer while preserving lean muscle mass that might be lost through aerobic workouts.
February 24, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Hundreds commemorate sit-ins that helped end segregation in Winston-Salem
More than 200 people came out Sunday afternoon to remember the actions of 21 black and white students 60 years ago that helped lead Winston-Salem and the rest of the country to ease brutal Jim Crow segregation. Eleven students from Winston-Salem Teachers College, now Winston-Salem State University, joined with 10 white students from Wake Forest College, now Wake Forest University, in a protest at the Woolworth store on North Liberty Street on Feb. 23, 1960.
February 23, 2020
Medscape
Suicidal patients often excluded from antidepressant trials
“Clinicians should be deeply concerned about this reality and support the importance of research that yields truly generalizable knowledge,” said lead investigator Ana Iltis, director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and professor of philosophy at Wake Forest. “Clinicians who treat depressed patients with suicidal ideation or a prior suicide attempt should ideally favor antidepressant approaches that have documented efficacy for suicidal ideation and behavior.”
February 21, 2020
91.5 WUNC
A new congressional district brings a fresh fight to the once heavily-gerrymandered triad
One of the most concrete outcomes of the new version of the 6th District is likely to be its effect on the partisan balance in Congress. John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest, also said it could help someone rise to new prominence in the Local political pecking order. The open seat representing the Triad has drawn five Democratic candidates. Dinan said that’s pretty typical. “Whenever you get a newly-drawn district of the kind here, you bring out some contestants. Some who have been in there before, but some new ones.”
February 20, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University apologizes for its past role in slavery
Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch apologized for the school’s historical connection with slavery in a speech Thursday during the university’s Founders’ Day Convocation at Wait Chapel on campus. The apology is part of what Hatch described as an ongoing effort to come to grips with how the university participated in and profited from slavery. In his keynote Founder’s Day speech, Jonathan Walton, the dean of Wake Forest’s School of Divinity, told the audience the history of the university “is both beautiful and terrible,” but people in the present can’t escape its effects.
February 20, 2020
89.9 KCRW (Santa Monica)
Microsoft wants to go carbon negative. What does that mean
Microsoft’s plan to go carbon negative is a big deal, said Wake Forest professor and climate journalist Justin Catanoso. “We have not bent the warming curve,” he said. “Unless we go carbon negative, we’re not going to get there. That’s what Microsoft is promising to do, which means they’re going to come up with ways to pull more carbon from the atmosphere in the next ten to forty years than they actually produce.” In addition to buying more green energy and switching to electric vehicles, Catanoso said Microsoft will be, “investing millions to protect standing forests, and they’re going to be investing millions to plant new trees.”
February 19, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Open mic will mark sit-in anniversary
Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State universities partnered on a week-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Winston-Salem sit-ins, which brought the Civil Rights Movement to the city.Students from both universities and from within the city were involved in the event.
February 19, 2020
91.5 WUNC
Leave room for Jesus in the September issue: Religion in Vogue
Lynn Neal, a professor of religion at Wake Forest, joined host Frank Stasio on the program “The State of Things.” Neal studied issues of Vogue magazine from the early 20th century to today to understand how religious iconography has shaped fashion throughout the ages. Clothing is not necessarily a transparent look at someone’s identity, Neal says, but a performative piece of their personality.
February 18, 2020
PBS NewsHour
5 NC schools among best value colleges: Princeton Review
Wake Forest appears on Princeton Review’s 2020 list of best value colleges released this month. The schools on the list reflect 7 percent of colleges across the country and offer the best return on investment for students, according to the research. Princeton Review chose schools based on a 2018-19 survey of administrators at 656 colleges. Survey topics covered academics, cost, financial aid, career services, graduation rates, student debt and alumni support.
February 18, 2020