Health Care Providers – Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:18:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon_logo-32x32.jpg Health Care Providers – Â鶹ÊÓƵ 32 32 Texas Tech Mathematicians Use Time Scale Approach To Cancer Treatment /projects/texas-tech-mathematicians-use-time-scale-approach-to-cancer-treatment/ /projects/texas-tech-mathematicians-use-time-scale-approach-to-cancer-treatment/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:08 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/texas-tech-mathematicians-use-time-scale-approach-to-cancer-treatment/ Read More... from Texas Tech Mathematicians Use Time Scale Approach To Cancer Treatment

]]> Texas Tech University mathematicians Casey Mills, a doctoral candidate, and associate professor of mathematics, Raegan Higgins, are using a mathematical approach to modeling the treatment of prostate cancer. After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, patients typically undergo intermittent androgen deprivation therapy prior to starting radiation or when surgery or radiation are not an option. Mills says that these patients undergo cancer treatment for a few months, then go without treatment for a few months.

“They alternate between periods of on-treatment and off-treatment, and those periods last several months,” Mills said. “We’ve created a new approach using something called time scales, which are able to combine discrete and continuous time very well.” A discrete variable is countable in a finite amount of time, but a continuous variable will continue on forever. “Most clinical models currently use strictly continuous time frames”, Mills said. Because of the change between on-and-off-treatment intervals, she and her advisor wanted to see if it was possible to combine the continuous and discrete to create a new model.

“What we’re doing introduces the fact that you can model both the continuous time and discrete time. We want to more realistically reflect the break of switching from on-treatment to off-treatment to on-treatment to off-treatment, without just assuming that it’s always continuous time,” Higgins said. “The benefit of this intermittent therapy is it gives patients a better quality of life. They’re not getting so much treatment at once. The doctors can see if the treatment is working and adjust accordingly.”

In using data from six patients whose treatment intervals best fit their mathematical formulas, the Texas Tech mathematicians said they accomplished their goal of building a solid foundational model. “Right now, we have a very, very novel model, and it will require more building and collaboration with biologists to increase its chances of being used in a clinical setting”, Mills said.

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]]> Telehealth holds great promise for monitoring chronic health conditions as well as managing disease outbreak and tracking. The University of Mississippi Medical Center has gained recognition for its telehealth model of cross-sector collaboration between UMMC, telecommunications companies, state government, health care providers, and private citizens. Research is needed to explore how telehealth can be expanded to Tallahatchie County and surrounding areas to enhance existing levels of care.

]]> Southern Indiana Community Health Care will work with the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering’s Serve IT team to develop the IT needs assessment, automate and streamline clinical processes, and train clinic staff on new information technology tools.

]]> The Juhnke-Balkin Life Balance Inventory is a validated survey tool that provides a snapshot of adult wellness in domains such as positive orientation, quality of relationships, spiritual support, stress and anxiety, sleep disturbance, sex and intimacy, career satisfaction, and global health. Graduate students and faculty from the UM Department of Leadership and Counselor Education administered a modified version of this survey to 41 participants at the Tallahatchie Wellness Health and Lifestyle Fair.

]]> Green County Health Services Department’s (GCHSD) Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse (AODA) unit
is committed to helping individuals in their community fight chemical dependencies and
substance abuse through primary treatment services, recovery, prevention, emergency care,
and the dissemination of information on addiction. In 2018, GCHSD AODA recognizes that there
is capacity to improve the resources for managing opioid-related overdoses (ODs) in their
community through the distribution of naloxone kits. Our proposed interventions will seek to
address this issue by increasing access to bystander naloxone as well as providing brief
educational trainings to potential carriers on the recognition of signs of OD, the appropriate
response to OD, and the proper administration of naloxone.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

UniverCity Year Contact Info
Gavin Luter
Managing Director
gavin@cows.org
608-261-1141

University Faculty Contact
Barbara Duerst
Population Health Sciences

barbara.duerst@wisc.edu

Local Government / Community Contact

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]]> Green County Health Services Department’s (GCHSD) Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse (AODA) unit is committed to helping individuals in their community fight chemical dependencies and
substance abuse through primary treatment services, recovery, prevention, emergency care,
and the dissemination of information on addiction. In 2018, GCHSD AODA recognizes that there
is capacity to improve the resources for managing opioid-related overdoses (ODs) in their
community through the distribution of naloxone kits. Our proposed interventions will seek to
address this issue by increasing access to bystander naloxone as well as providing brief
educational trainings to potential carriers on the recognition of signs of OD, the appropriate
response to OD, and the proper administration of naloxone.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

UniverCity Year Contact Info
Gavin Luter
Managing Director
gavin@cows.org
608-261-1141

University Faculty Contact
Barbara Duerst
Population Health Sciences

barbara.duerst@wisc.edu

Local Government / Community Contact

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