Did you know each person on Earth requires at minimum 20 liters of clean water a day for drinking, washing, and cooking in order to remain healthy? Polluted water is directly linked to diseases like cholera and dysentery, which claim millions of lives each year. Project Gamboula is working to change this.

Consider, as we go into the holiday season, donating to Project Gamboula and helping provide a functioning well for fresh water to one of the largest hospitals in the Central African Republic.

By Aaron M. Garcia

They are calling it the Age of Anxiety.

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), generalized anxiety disorder affects nearly 6.8 million adults annually. What’s even more shocking is only 43.2% of these individuals receive treatment.

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Americans are lonely and our health is suffering for it. Isolation is often an underlying factor in many of the most common health conditions, including chronic pain, substance abuse and depression, according to osteopathic physicians.

Long working hours, increased use of social media—in many cases surpassing in-person interaction—and a mobile workforce traveling or living far from family contribute to high rates of loneliness, noted Jennifer Caudle, DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Drs. Dominic King and Jason Genin, two sports medicine DOs at Cleveland Clinic, are changing how tendon injuries are diagnosed and treated, making the process more efficient and effective.

Their work began with studying the efficacy of orthobiologic injections, treatments including platelet-rich plasma injections, stem cell injections, and placental-derived extracellular matrix injections. They discovered it was difficult to determine whether the treatments were effective because the diagnoses were so generic.