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COVID-19 Response Fund supports innovation solutions during pandemic

The Dartmouth General Hospital Foundation is raising money for a COVID-19 Response Fund to support the needs of staff and patients during the pandemic. According to Dr. Kevin Spencer, an emergency department physician at the Dartmouth General Hospital and mechanical engineer, the COVID-19 Response Fund is focused on three specific areas...His team has joined forces with Spring Loaded Technology, an organization that develops and manufactures novel assistive devices that reduce pain and restore mobility, to produce face shields. Read more...
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Anonymous Donor Gives Man Gift of Sight with Electronic Eyewear Device

When Mike McIntyre was just nine months old, doctors found a brain tumor on his optic nerve and pituitary gland which are the nerves that connect the eyes to the brain, according to WRAL. Because of the tumor, McIntyre never knew what it was like to have normal vision and learned to adapt to very limited eyesight. However, five years ago he heard about a wearable electronic device called eSight that offers a form of vision restoration without implants or...
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Student Debt in the Time of Coronavirus

Thanks to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, plan sponsors can assist their workers in paying down student loan debt, tax-free. While the newly established $5,250 employer contribution limit is significant, the reality is that the aid can only do so much to reduce the massive student loan debt load carried by the U.S. workforce...When advisers understand the mechanics surrounding loan debt, relaying such knowledge to their clients can end up relieving at least some of their...
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