A Drug-Dealing Robot That Upends the Pharmacy Model

For $20 a month, PillPack will deliver prescription drugs to patients with the efficiency of Amazon Prime. Photos by PillPack

For $20 a month, PillPack will deliver prescription drugs to patients with the efficiency of Amazon Prime.

The core of their service is a small blue box that organizes all of your med into "dose packets," little plastic baggies marked with the date and time they're to be taken. Photos by PillPack

The core of their service is a small blue box that organizes all of your med into "dose packets," little plastic baggies marked with the date and time they're to be taken.

A jumble of amber bottles are replaced by an efficient to-do list made of drugs. Photos by PillPack

A jumble of amber bottles are replaced by an efficient to-do list made of drugs.

Each order comes with a custom infographic that shows a full color picture of each pill, explains what it does, and clarifies any special instructions. Photos by PillPack

Each order comes with a custom infographic that shows a full color picture of each pill, explains what it does, and clarifies any special instructions.

The technical backbone of PillPack is a suite of drug-dealing robots. A large, beige machine in PillPack's New Hampshire office is filled with a cornucopia of curatives which are dispensed into the plastic packets. Photos by PillPack

The technical backbone of PillPack is a suite of drug-dealing robots. A large, beige machine in PillPack's New Hampshire office is filled with a cornucopia of curatives which are dispensed into the plastic packets.

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King University president resigns

BRISTOL, Tenn. Months of calls for his dismissal by many students and a vote of no confidence by two-thirds of the faculty earlier this week culminated with the resignation Friday of longtime King University President Dr. Greg Jordan.

King Board of Trustees Executive Committee member Marcia Porter confirmed Jordans resignation in a written statement issued just after 4:30 p.m. Friday.

It is with a heavy heart that we accept Dr. Jordans resignation, Porter said in the release. We appreciate Gregs tremendous contributions to the school during his tenure as president, and before that as an esteemed faculty member. King University is the institution it is today, with expanding campuses, additional programs and multiple learning platforms, due to his vision, leadership and business acumen.

A vote was taken today by the trustees to appoint Dr. Richard A. Ray as interim president while a nationwide search is conducted for the next president. Ray had served as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, the school said in the release.

Multiple attempts by the Bristol Herald Courier to speak with Jordan over the past week have been unsuccessful.

Jordan became the 10th president in the Presbyterian schools 146-year history when he was appointed in 1997.

Some of his achievements listed by the school in the release included the transition from a college to university, completion of a $50 million capital campaign, a student center complex, 16 consecutive years of enrollment increases, millions of dollars in endowment growth and increases in performing and visual arts offerings.

Starting in 2008, Jordan pursued a medical school that received seed funding from the Virginia Tobacco Commission, but it 2012 it was turned over to an independent corporation that is continuing the efforts.

The resignation closed a tumultuous week that began Monday with an anonymous ballot survey of faculty members, with 62 voting no confidence in Jordan, 30 giving him full confidence and nine abstaining, two faculty members told the Bristol Herald Courier earlier this week.

That vote was preceded by months of protests on campus by student-organized groups demanding a change in administration and a war of words that surfaced on the Internet through two pipelines of information begun by King alumni and faculty, a blog called King 1867, and by Kings Student Government Association President Andr Latimore.

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Allentown School District superintendent: Charters are biggest drain

Of all the problems contributing to Allentown School District's dire financial situation and the list is long perhaps the toughest challenge is the drain of students to charter schools, Superintendent Russ Mayo said Tuesday.

Pointing to Allen High School, Mayo said the enrollment had declined from about 3,700 students five years ago to 2,500 today as kids head for the myriad charter and cyber charter schools that have sprouted up.

Districtwide, Allentown expects to pay $5.7 million more in charter school tuition in 2014-2015.

"If all the charter school students came back it would cost us $5 million to add staff," Mayo said. "But we are paying charters $22 million."

Mayo and district Chief Financial Officer John Clark made no attempt to sugarcoat Allentown's budget crisis at a public forum Tuesday at South Mountain Middle School.

Mayo told the dozen or so people who turned out that the forum was designed to inform citizens about the budget process and the district's financial straits but also to seek public input on solutions.

In January, the school board approved a preliminary budget that includes a 9 percent property tax increase and $6.1 million in salary cuts to plug a $13.2 million deficit. In the past four years, the district has eliminated 366 positions, shortened the school day for high school students and reduced arts offerings as part of the efforts to save money.

"All the low-hanging fruit is gone," Mayo said.

The district's woes are not the result of bad management, he said, adding that Allentown is in the bottom 10 percent of school districts in administrative spending per pupil.

Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed budget unveiled Feb. 4 would mean an additional $3.7 million for Allentown if it passes but that money comes with strings attached. The district can't just use it to plug the budget gap.

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Graduates applaud Selma Highs Doctors Academy program

Founded by the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research to encourage disadvantaged students to focus on careers in health and medicine, UCSF Fresno Selma High Schools Doctors Academy is having a positive effect on students who have graduated from the program. Originally, Selma High Schools Doctors Academy was launched at Sunnyside High School in Fresno.

The rural Doctors Academy programs were started six years ago at Selma High School and Caruthers High School, said Mark Babiarz, principal at Selma High School.

Babiarz said the Doctors Academy came to Selma High School with the goal to prepare high school students to become competitive applicants to four-year universities by providing them with a rigorous academic program that includes experience in research and clinical settings, service learning and exposure to universities and colleges.

An important part of Selma High Schools Doctors Academy is the college trips that are made available to the students.

The Doctors Academy college trips have included Stanford University, UCLA, UCSF School of Medicine, UC Davis and USC, said Babiarz.

Laura Prez, a Selma High Doctors Academy graduate in 2011, is currently a third-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley with a major in molecular environmental biology.

The first time Prez visited UC Berkeley was when she was a part of Selma Highs Doctors Academy.

Once I stepped onto the UC Berkeley campus, I knew that it would be a place that would foster my way of thinking and growth in higher education, said Prez. Those trips exposed me to places beyond the Central Valley that I might not have visited otherwise. I think getting a feel of a different environment was crucial in helping me figure out where it was that I wanted to be after graduation, something that not a lot of underprivileged students have the chance to experience. In some sense, it gave me a chance at having a choice.

Upon graduation from high school and entering into a college, students whove been in the Doctors Academy are better able to handle the rigors of college, said Babiarz.

The way they provided tutors and other members to prepare me on taking proper notes, how to be committed to my studies, how to be a professional in general, how to understand how college life would be like and to become a successful person in life really prepared me for college life, said Alexandra Reyes, a Selma High School Doctors Academy graduate in 2012 and current nursing major at Fresno City College.

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Mount Nitany Medical Center to House the First Residency Program in the State College Area

A year from now, Mount Nittany Medical Center will open its doors for the first time to six residents in family medicine.

The program, titled the Penn State Hershey Family Medicine Residency at Mount Nittany, is a three-year residency program in family medicine and will begin next spring.

Housed at the medical center, the program will be run through the University Park Regional Campus of Penn State College of Medicine , and will be the first residency of any kind in the State College area, Dr. Joesph Wiedemer, program director of the family medicine residency, said.

This program covers a wide breadth of care including prevention, immunization, diagnosis, communication and treatment of disease. Wiedemer said they considered many options before deciding on family medicine because of the lack of family physicians in the United States.

Wiedemer said the nation will need 47,000 more family physicians by 2020, according to the Institute of Medicine.

Mike Henry, Class of 2013, who will be attending medical school at Columbia University next fall, said via email he recognized the shortage and that the program will be beneficial for the hospital and the nations health care system.

In order to enhance health care beyond State College, Wiedemer said one of the main goals is to care for patients in the surrounding rural areas.

The hope is some of the students, about one half, will stay in this region and the others will go to areas that are underdeveloped, Wiedemer said.

For members of the State College community, keeping physicians in the area could greatly improve the quality of care.

Celeste Newcomb, professor of health policy and administration , said the program illustrates a positive investment toward consumer access.

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The Amazons live on, Madeira High School to keep both mascot names

MADEIRA, OH (FOX19) -

Madeira High School has two mascots, one for the boys and one for the girls. After the school attempted a rebranding effort, the high school announced that they would keep both of the district's team names Mustangs and Amazons.

When the school board announced a plan to review the district's individual team names, several former Madeira athletes stepped up to defend the Amazon name.

Danielle Lydon is a former Madeira basketball player who still has her Amazon letterman's jacket. The nickname started in 1970 when the girls' teams began to win under legendary coach Nadine Wilson.

"The boys got upset that the girls were winning everything, and they called them Amazons'. One night they went in and trashed the girl's locker room," Lydon explained.

Considering the real definition of an Amazon - a legendary race of female warriors - Coach Wilson decided to take the intended insult and turn it into a positive.

And nearly 45 years later, the Madeira Amazon mascot remains.

Recently, Lydon and a small army of alumni have banded together to defend the name after word spread that the district was planning to discuss brand refinement and a possible name change.

A memo from the district read, "Our goal is to build a coherent and consistent message that is easily understood by everyone in Madeira and other districts."

However, after receiving input from numerous members of the community, the school decided to keep with tradition.

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Awards/honors

The Montessori High School in Lexington has been named the state winner in the Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. The high school recycled 30 pounds of waste per student during a one month period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, 2013 to win Kentucky's first prize designation, which earned $1,000 for the school.

Eleven students in the veterinary assistant program at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm have passed their certification test. This nationally recognized credential for the industry is available through the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, and Locust Trace is one of only five high schools in the country to offer this certification.

These students who are now approved veterinary assistants: Alexandra Arnold, Paul Laurence Dunbar; Phoebe Crutchfield, Lafayette; Karina Dowd, Tates Creek; Ashtin Gross, Lafayette; Addison Hodges, Lafayette; Taylor Hudson, Dunbar; Morgan Johnson, Lafayette; Lyndsey Mefford, Henry Clay; Keonna Neeley, Dunbar; Hannah Stokley, Lafayette; Sarah Taylor, Lafayette.

Three students at The Montessori High School in Lexington have been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., this month. Olivia Pederson of Lexington and Frances Werner-Wilson and William Werner-Wilson of Versailles have been selected as Kentucky representatives based on their academic achievement, leadership potential and interest in medicine.

The Congress of Future Medical Leaders is a program for high school students across the country who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. Students who attend will learn about leading medical research and advances and medical school expectations.

University of Kentucky student Becca Clemons is one of five students who has earned top honors in the American Copy Editors Society annual scholarship program. Clemons, who will earn a journalism degree from the University of Kentucky this spring, has held copy editing and reporting internships at The New York Times, The Arizona Republic, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. She will intern at The Seattle Times this summer.

In addition to the cash prize, winners receive financial assistance to attend ACES' 18th annual national conference, March 20-22, in Las Vegas.

For more information on the conference, got to Vegas.copydesk.org.

Austin Li and Mingxi Mao of Winburn Middle School earned the mark of distinction on the AMC 8, a 25-question, 40-minute multiple-choice math exam that promotes the development of problem-solving skills, by scoring in the top one percent nationally on the November 2013 exam. They were also Winburn's schoolwide winner and runner-up, respectively. About 150,000 middle school students from dozens of countries take this American Mathematics Competitions exam each fall, including youngsters in Fayette County Public Schools.

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Longtime Loyola Leader Named Chair of Department of Medicine

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Newswise J. Paul OKeefe, MD, 67, Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of the Medical Specialties Practice at Loyola Outpatient Center as well as Medical Director of the Maywood Primary Care Clinic, has been named Chair of the Department of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, effective Monday, Feb. 10.

He assumes the role formerly held by David Hecht, MD, who has become Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Loyola University Health System.

Dr. OKeefes leadership as a practicing clinician and a distinguished researcher has made him a beloved, respected teacher and mentor. Throughout his career, Dr. OKeefe has donated his time and skill to bring essential health-care services to communities in desperate need, consistently honoring the service-focused, Jesuit-Catholic values that have shaped his life and work.

A 1971 alumnus of Stritch, Dr. OKeefe returned to Loyola University Medical Center in 1977 and was named Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. Ten years later, he became Medical Director of the Maywood Primary Care Clinic. In 1999, after eight years as a full professor, he became Medical Director of the Medical Specialties Practice at the Loyola Outpatient Center. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine for the past five years.

His tireless dedication to the community is evidenced by his roles as chair of the HIV/AIDS Task Force of the Archdiocese of Chicago and as a member of the Health Advisory Board of Catholic Charities of Chicago. He is the founder and organizer of the Maywood Clinic, which has brought care to thousands of underserved individuals who lack access to basic health services. Dr. OKeefes devotion to teaching and service to others has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Medical Alumni Associations Golden Apple Teaching Award in 1992, the Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 2000 and the Stritch Medal in 2004.

He has published hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed journals and is nationally known for his research in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.

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Education news of interest in Central Kentucky.

Awards/honors

The Montessori High School in Lexington has been named the state winner in the Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. The high school recycled 30 pounds of waste per student during a one month period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, 2013 to win Kentucky's first prize designation, which earned $1,000 for the school.

Eleven students in the veterinary assistant program at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm have passed their certification test. This nationally recognized credential for the industry is available through the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, and Locust Trace is one of only five high schools in the country to offer this certification.

These students who are now approved veterinary assistants: Alexandra Arnold, Paul Laurence Dunbar; Phoebe Crutchfield, Lafayette; Karina Dowd, Tates Creek; Ashtin Gross, Lafayette; Addison Hodges, Lafayette; Taylor Hudson, Dunbar; Morgan Johnson, Lafayette; Lyndsey Mefford, Henry Clay; Keonna Neeley, Dunbar; Hannah Stokley, Lafayette; Sarah Taylor, Lafayette.

Three students at The Montessori High School in Lexington have been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., this month. Olivia Pederson of Lexington and Frances Werner-Wilson and William Werner-Wilson of Versailles have been selected as Kentucky representatives based on their academic achievement, leadership potential and interest in medicine.

The Congress of Future Medical Leaders is a program for high school students across the country who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. Students who attend will learn about leading medical research and advances and medical school expectations.

University of Kentucky student Becca Clemons is one of five students who has earned top honors in the American Copy Editors Society annual scholarship program. Clemons, who will earn a journalism degree from the University of Kentucky this spring, has held copy editing and reporting internships at The New York Times, The Arizona Republic, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. She will intern at The Seattle Times this summer.

In addition to the cash prize, winners receive financial assistance to attend ACES' 18th annual national conference, March 20-22, in Las Vegas.

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Austin Li and Mingxi Mao of Winburn Middle School earned the mark of distinction on the AMC 8, a 25-question, 40-minute multiple-choice math exam that promotes the development of problem-solving skills, by scoring in the top one percent nationally on the November 2013 exam. They were also Winburn's schoolwide winner and runner-up, respectively. About 150,000 middle school students from dozens of countries take this American Mathematics Competitions exam each fall, including youngsters in Fayette County Public Schools.

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